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Sonny & Brownie is an album by the blues musicians Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee. It was recorded at the Paramount Recording Studios (in Hollywood , California , United States) in 1973, and re-released in 1988 with digital remastering by Rudy Van Gelder at the Van Gelder Recording Studio .
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Walter McGhee was born and raised in Knoxville TN and when he contracted polio, his brother Granville (or ‘Stick‘) would push him round in a cart. When he was able to walk again, Brownie dropped out of school to play guitar with his father’s group, The Golden Voices Gospel Quartet. He took up the life of a wandering Bluesman, developing a fine fing...
There was an influx of Blues players into New York just after WWII ended, and they found a flourishing club scene for jazz, boogie-woogie, blues and folk music. Sonny and Brownie, Rev. Gary Davis and Josh White all found a welcome in the left-leaning, anti-racist bohemian life of the metropolis, where they joined Woodie Guthrie, Cisco Houston,Lead ...
Separately, these talented musicians did much to advance the Blues. Elements of Sonny’s ‘whoppin’ style can be heard in most harp players work today, and Brownie’s skill and versatility is a model for any young guitarist. Together they were part of an irresistible movement to bring the Blues to the world.
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7. Mai 2020 · One of the best-known and most stylish blues duos of all, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee get a deserved Avid Roots release for four of their albums, recorded between 1958 and 1961.
Sonny & Brownie, an Album by Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee. Released in 1973 on A&M (catalog no. SP 69886; Vinyl LP). Genres: Blues. Rated #677 in the best albums of 1973.
John Mayall and John Hammond, Jr. are among the "youngsters" on this powerful statement that includes a definitive version of Randy Newman's wickedly subtle anti-slavery tune "Sail Away." Sonny Terry's trademark whoops are energizing. The repartee between him and Brownie McGhee might convince you they were fast friends if you didn't know otherwise.
