Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee - Walk on

Terry and McGhee

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[Bushbaby387]

Saw these guys at The Crucible in the early 1980s. Best concert I ever attended. It was glorious!!

[Stalinitopedrotito]

lucky you

[rekohu1]

Yous ROCK!!

[ivansaric33]

Hey ChippyMc Beal,

I been playing Sonny Terry stuff for 30 yrs. Sonny is using B flat for this tune.

It sounds to me like you don't know what you are talking about.

He sometimes uses a C harp and never an E harp.

I got a huge record collection of Sonny's and I know this for a fact.

The glass is a party trick. You ain't no blues Mr know it all.

You can fool the uninformed but you can't fool me....

[bobobekker]

@ChippyMcBeal Listen a few people know that is was forbidden for negro slaves to get married by law and it was also forbidden to learn to read or write by law.So by freedom they could'nt read or write an so they just could'nt learn the accords for guitar.They took a bottle and pull the neck of it and use it and so there was the first bottleneck guitar.After World War 2 Negroes returned home and in the Southern States they got lynched by KKK.Iverson Minters dad (louisiana red) was also killed

[ChippyMcBeal]

@bobobekker it's amazing the sounds you can make with household tools such as wooden spoons and bottles! It's been great talking to you! speak soon CM.

[bobobekker]

@ChippyMcBeal my brother got sick so I'm writing you kow it's overhere now 00h40 in the night.They used just as my daddy two spoons and one in front of their mouth and they other tickin'to it so you get rythym or two wooden sticks and ticking to each other or empty bottle's filled up with water in different level so the sound get's different just giv it a try,so long buddy I go to bed Herman andn Fred Bekker from the Deep Netherlands Europe

[ChippyMcBeal]

@bobobekker I believe you my friend, They started in the 1940's soo I'm not suprised that Sonny used a whiskey bottle to create his sounds

[bobobekker]

@ChippyMcBeal It's the truth cross my heart,little walter did also use a glass for the echoes and when I told R.J. Mischo it for a fewe years ago he was stoned and used it and cried like a baby and if you listen to Sonnyboy Williamson (Rice Miller) he used his hand as a cup for the echo

[ChippyMcBeal]

@bobobekker I'm disabled too. I love to listen to sonny play because I myself play the harmonica. They both did well in the music business to say sonny was partially blind and brownie at some time had polio! Ther're soo awesome!



[bobobekker]

@ChippyMcBeal listen buddy I'm disabled just as my brother is and sonny was blind for one eya and as a kid he played with a stick and became total blind and brownee had polio and could hardly walk so walk on got his

meaning and sonny used most of the time a empty whiskey glass or beer glass for the rar sound and echoes

[ChippyMcBeal]

@bobobekker Ohh wow! that sounds fantastic! Thanks for telling me the key of the harmonica, I just wondered because I admire the way Sonny plays.