13:21Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee - live in 1972
Sonny Terry
1970sInterviewAcoustic
Rare acoustic footage of Sonny Terry, curated from across the internet. Browse 2 clips below.
Acoustic performances strip music down to its essence. Without amplification, effects, or the energy of a full band, it’s just the song and the musician. These clips — recorded in dressing rooms, radio stations, living rooms, and intimate venues — often reveal dimensions of familiar songs that the full arrangements obscure.
Saunders Terrell, known as Sonny Terry, was an American Piedmont blues and folk musician, who was known for his energetic blues harmonica style, which frequently included vocal whoops and hollers and occasionally imitations of trains and fox hunts.
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