Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee - Hootin' the Blues
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee perform the tremendously brilliant Hootin' the Blues from the year 1952. Blind harp wizard Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, a spectacular guitar picker, had a 35-year-long partnership that helped to define Folk/Blues. Their Piedmont style Blues has a very different feel to Delta Blues and its effect on modern music has a very different genesis to the route through Chicago that gave us Blues-rock. 🎵 Enjoy more from Blue Notes to Kingston: Lonnie Johnson - Another Night to Cry https://youtu.be/n8fyb9vpIc0 Louis Prima - Banana Split for My Baby https://youtu.be/uJcRoYuV2Q0 Cab Calloway & Nicholas Brothers - Jumpin' Jive https://youtu.be/qXZRWa8kyAE 🛎 Subscribe to Blue Notes to Kingston for more from America's golden ages of music: https://www.youtube.com/@bluenotestokingston?sub_confirmation=1 #SonnyTerryBrownieMcGhee #HootintheBlues #BlueNotesToKingston
About Sonny Terry
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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