
20/04/2025
On this day in 1931, deep in the jazz-laced heart of Chicago, Louis Armstrong stepped into the studio and gave breath to When It’s Sleepy Time Down South. A smoky, nostalgic lullaby to the American South — tender, aching, complex. Written by Clarence Muse, Leon René, and Otis René, the song first drifted into the world through the voice of Nina Mae McKinney in the film Safe in Hell. It was more than a recording — it was a hymn to heritage, a quiet act of resistance, a moment suspended in the grooves of time.”