Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee - In the Evening

who are they talking about at the end big bill ??/

big bill broonzy

No, don't lay that trip on Pete Seager, look at all the clips of this show , he is with whites, blacks ,native americans. Judy Collins, Sonny Terry and Mcghhe and Buffy Saint Marie, Doc Watson. same with everybody. he did not mess up by butting in.

he was being a bridge between 1960's american tv watcher and these talented people,

If it where not for people like Pete Seager most of these great peiole would have lived and died withoiut ever been recorded for us too see and hear.

He did mess their performance up. If he was bringing the performers together to perform their music authentically, let THEM perform it then. Everyone knows Seagar was NOT a country blues stylist. Let the country blues musicians PLAY their music, Stay out of it! How many free-jazz musicians (for example) butted in on HIS performances and recordings?

I agree 100% with your comment, but infortunately it was the historical scenary in the moment and for sure this meeting was a revolution on tv and this is what the magic of the blues do to people! In those years, black people have suffered a lot of misery and racism, thanks god its not true anymore, for the major of the people at least, cause theres still some idiots that hang up this racism flag, but now they are shame about it and not proud anymore. Sorry for the english, im brazilian.

can anyone tell me what kind of harmonica (marine band, lee oskar, etc...)
and what key he is using? by the looks of it he has one of each keys sitting on the table, but any advice would be appreciated, and big hats off to peglegsam for all of these incredible movies

It's a C harp, almost definitely Marine Band I should think.

you are most likely correct....Sonny played on MB's and his favorite key was Bb...he played on C and A harps often....this one is definatly a C harp...I read once where Sonny met Lee Oskar before he died and tried out Lee Oskar's Bb harp...I have not run across the source since that claimed he ditched Marine Bands for Lee Oskar. I personally prefer the playability of an LO harp but like the tone of a MB better...I prefer a Special 20 to either harp...

yup music has no eyes only ears and if people cant handle a black man and a white man in harmony togeather playing sum tunes togeather as equals then they should just minimise the window and get to what this is all about...THE MUSIC>>>BEAUTIFUL BLUES MUSIC