Know I Love You", "I Stood By (And Watched Another Man Steal My Gal)", "My Home Ain't Here", and the much-covered "Gonna Stick to You Baby". Sundown continued to work with Miller into the early 1960s. In 1964 he recorded "Hoo Doo Woman Blues" backed with "I've Got a Broken Heart", recordings which have been described as among "the last ethnic down-home blues 45s aimed exclusively at the Negro market". However, by 1965 Sundown had become disillusioned with his lack of success. He also endured a difficult divorce around this time, retired from the music industry to work as a laborer, and joined the Lord Jesus Christ of the Apostolic Faith Fellowship Throughout the World Church, of which he eventually became a minister. He was persuaded back to the recording studio in 1977 and recorded another blues album, Been Gone Too Long, co-produced by Bruce Bromberg and Dennis Walker, originally for Joliet Records. Despite its quality, its sales were disappointing, even after it was reissued by Alligator Records. His final single release was "I Betcha", in 1977 Sundown played several concerts, including an appearance at the 1979 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and tours of Sweden and Japan with Phillip Walker, but then walked away from the music business for good. In 1994 he suffered a stroke and was no longer able to speak. He died in Gonzales, Louisiana, in April 1995, aged 66. He was posthumously inducted into the Louisiana Blues Hall of Fame in 2000. Musical style and influences Unusually for Louisiana musicians, Sundown's style of the blues was more in keeping with the sound of Muddy Waters than that of Jimmy Reed. His sombre and melancholic recordings and instantly recognizable style were described by Miller as "the sound of the swamp". Reviewing the Been Gone Too Long LP in Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981), Robert Christgau said: Selected discography Lonesome Lonely Blues (1970), Excello Been Gone Too Long (1977), HighTone See also List of swamp blues musicians References External links [ Biography at Allmusic.com] Full discography at Koti.mbnet.fi I'm a Mojo Man, Biography and music at Bluesreviews.it 1928 births 1995 deaths People from Donaldsonville, Louisiana Blues musicians from Louisiana Swamp blues musicians American blues guitarists American male guitarists American blues singers Louisiana blues musicians Songwriters from Louisiana 20th-century American singers 20th-century American guitarists Singers from Louisiana Guitarists from Louisiana Excello Records artists