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Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee

Blues
Piedmont Blues
The bluesmen Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee forged a musical partnership which lasted for 35 years and projected the men to worldwide fame during the 1950s and '60s. Terry, born in North Carolina, was blind having lost the sight in each eye in two separate childhood accidents. He developed his distinctive style of harmonica playing with the famous blues guitarist Blind Boy Fuller busking on street corners. McGhee from Knoxville, Tennessee contracted polio as a child and grew into one of the most renowned blues guitarists of his generation. In 1940 both Terry and McGhee found t...
Songs
Changed The Lock On My Door
Changed The Lock On My DoorSonny Terry & Brownie McGhee

Cornbread, Peas and Black Molasses
Cornbread, Peas and Black MolassesSonny Terry and Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee

Sonny Terry Vol. 2 (1944-1949)

2:31

Freight Train
Freight TrainBrownie McGhee, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry

2:44

Hold Me in Your Arms
Hold Me in Your ArmsBrownie McGhee, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry

Back to New Orleans

3:31

Cornbread, Peas and Black Molasses
Cornbread, Peas and Black MolassesBrownie McGhee and Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee

California Blues

2:26

I Know Better
I Know BetterBrownie McGhee, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry

Back to New Orleans

3:29

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