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Sonny Terry

Blues
Harmonica blues
Better known as "Blind" simply because he's blind, Sonny Terry, an atypical character, appears before the public armed with his harmonica, playing percussion with a set of knucklebones, all the while executing dance steps. Before making his living from music, he flirted with quackery by selling miracle potions. A street musician, his first public performances took place outside factories. He was hired by John Hammond, who could not resist the original style of this unusual musician and opened the doors of Carnegie Hall to him. He stayed in New York, where he formed one of the bes...
Songs
Step It Up and Go
Step It Up and GoBob Dylan, Brownie McGhee, Sonny Terry and Brownie Cotten

Not Guilty Blues

2:33

Key To the Highway
Key To the HighwaySonny Terry, Brownie McGhee and Chris Barber's Jazz Band

Hometown Blues

2:15

Last Night Blues
Last Night BluesLightnin' Hopkins and Sonny Terry

Last Night Blues

5:16

Coffee House Blues
Coffee House BluesLightnin' Hopkins, Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry

Lightnin' Strikes

Glory
GloryWoody Guthrie, Cisco Houston, Sonny Terry, Alex Stewart, Cisco, Woody, Sonny and Alex

GLORY INSTRUMENTAL

2:45

Hard to Love a Woman
Hard to Love a WomanLightnin' Hopkins and Sonny Terry

Last Night Blues

4:00

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