Blues for Aficionados

Sonny Terry - Johnny Winter - Willie Dixon

WHOOPIN'

Sonny Terry(harmonica, vocals), Johnny Winter(guitar, piano)
Willie Dixon(bass), Styve Homnick(drums)
Alligator Records   1984

Notes: Back when the Blues was being called folk music, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee were some of the first people to be recorded, and they were one of the first country Blues harp and guitar duets I heard.  I loved them, but I always felt like Sonny was never quite in his element.  Brownie's a great guitar player but he has that mellow, pretty Carolina style and Sonny's voice was always more raspy -- it had a lot of the Mississippi Delta quality to it.  So when Sonny asked if I'd produce an album with him, I tried to make a record with a lot of Delta feel to it, like we had cut the record in Mississippi.  That why I played a lot of slide on it.
-- Bruce Iglauer

I Got My Eyes On You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bW1kxFRRxs

Sonny's Whoopin' The Doop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_RoI18QE6c

Whoo Wee Baby
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QO_Zk4myS7M

So Tough With Me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oh1v9iIG_U

Cheers

@dabel:

Glad you like the posts.  Memphis was also our annual trip to the big city.  I thought it was a million miles away.

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Mo' Blues

Ray Bryant Trio - C.C. Rider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pZpDzj_rj4

Ray Bryant Trio - St. Louis Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KvI8fHZo7A

Ray Bryant Trio - C Jam Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPunAsZCZjc

Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxpbg2vlQxk

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Sonny Terry

WHOOPIN’ THE BLUES: THE CAPITOL RECORDINGS, 1947-1950

Capitol Records 1995

Notes: "You see, I don't play like nobody else.  I play my own style.  Somebody say, "Well, you don't play like so-and-so,  I say, "well they don't play like me."
--Sonny Terry

Definitely not from the Delta.

Telephone Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bxSBwAw4Rg

Riff and Harmonica Jump
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwCAhlsheR0

Dirty Mistreater Don’t You Know
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhvrU1K5I88

Crow Janes Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTJwMa1m7ZI

Cheers