Bro be posative it is essential Harmonica Learning any young Harp Beatboxers that come my way via our club, i tell them to listen to Sonny Terry the original Beatboxer:)
Yeah, except in that video I don't like Pete Seeger pouring maple syrup over everything.
Unfortunately the only CD I've got of Sonny Terry so far is called Whooping and Hollering, or something like that, and on every track he whoops and hollers and it jars my nerves. I'll study him in detail when I've got more time. ---------- Andrew, gentleman of leisure, noodler extraordinaire.
I've got "Sonny Terry & His Mouth Harp". I like it!
"This rare December 1953 session (reissued on CD in 1999) was unusual for Terry in that his guitar accompanist was not Brownie McGhee, but Alec Seward, who had previously recorded as Guitar Slim in a duo with "Fat Boy" Hayes" (aka Jelly Belly). ... Full DescriptionIt's unusual only in the personnel, however. It sounds like typical Sonny Terry, as he works his way through original material, including standards like "John Henry" and other blues tunes like "In the Evening" (the song that would provide much of the basis for Robert Johnson's "Love in Vain"). You'd have to say that it's usually more interesting to hear Terry with his longtime partner McGhee than it is to hear him with Seward, but it's not terribly different. The trademark vocal and harmonica whoops, and hollers are in gear and running throughout the album, sometimes to exhilarating effect, as on the rapid "The Fox Chase (aka "Hound Dog Holler")." His lyrics get uncommonly specific on "Goodbye Leadbelly," a tribute to the then-recently deceased folk-blues legend, composed by "writer unknown." The recording engineer on the session, incidentally, was a young Jac Holzman, who had just started Elektra Records. ~ Richie Unterberger"
You played this type of blues Buddha? You always have one more surprise up your sleeve I did not know that.
Re: Sonny Terry recordings that don't have tons of hootin', lol. I have The Midnight Special and the Absolutely their Best albums and they both have plenty of good blues without loads of hootin' and hollerin' haha. I know how you feel though Andrew.
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~Ryan
"I play the harmonica. The only way I can play is if I get my car going really fast, and stick it out the window." - Stephen Wright
Pennsylvania - H.A.R.P. (Harmonica Association 'Round Philly)
im trying to get learn some chugging for a chug competion Bluesharmonica.com is having so ive been listening to Sonny terry alot lately hes great,I really enjoy that style of music ---------- Hobostubs
Sonny Terry's rhythm chugging alone is worth learning. ---------- Sincerely, Barbeque Bob Maglinte Boston, MA http://www.barbequebob.com CD available at http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/bbmaglinte
One of the very first harmonica books I ever owned was the Kent Cooper bio of Sonny Terry. It came with a little floppy (seriously floppy) record for instruction. Those were some of the first licks that set me straight on what blues harp was all about.
