SONNY TERRY AND BROWNIE McGHEE – SONNY & BROWNIE LP – Nr MINT/EXC+ A1/B1 UK 1973 BLUES

 Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee – Sonny & Brownie
(A&M Records  1973  AMLH64379)
Matrix No’s: A1/B1 – UK Pressing

Gatefold Sleeve in Nr MINT- condition
– some slight wear to edges with a small price sticker on back, top right corner

Vinyl in Nr MINT/Excellent+ condition
(there are some surface marks visible on the vinyl when held up to the light but they don’t affect the sound quality – slight warp at edge of vinyl, doesn’t skip but does give a light rasp on the first few revolutions)

VINYL IS TRANSLUCENT RED
IF YOU HOLD THE VINYL UP TO A BRIGHT LIGHT YOU CAN SEE THE RED COLOUR

Saunders Teddell, or Saunders Terrell (or other variants, sources differ) (October 24, 1911 – March 11, 1986), 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.

Walter Brown “Brownie” McGhee (November 30, 1915 – February 16, 1996) was an American folk music and Piedmont blues singer and guitarist, best known for his collaboration with the harmonica player Sonny Terry.

Sonny & Brownie is an album by the blues musicians Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee. It was recorded at the Paramount Recording Studios (in Hollywood, California, United States) in 1973, and re-released in 1988 with digital remastering by Rudy Van Gelder at the Van Gelder Recording Studio.

Track listing

1. “People Get Ready” (Curtis Mayfield)
2. “Bring It on Home to Me” (Sam Cooke)
3. “You Bring Out the Boogie in Me” (Michael Franks)
4. “Sail Away” (Randy Newman)
5. “Sonny’s Thing” (Sonny Terry)
6. “White Boy Lost in the Blues” (Michael Franks)
7. “Battle Is Over (But the War Goes On)” (Jerry Winn, Maurice Rodgers)
8. “Walkin’ My Blues Away” (Brownie McGhee, Sonny Terry)
9. “Big Wind (Is A’ Comin’)” (G. Michaels, Maurice Rodgers)
10. “Jesus Gonna Make It Alright” (Michael Franks)
11. “God and Man” (Maurice Rodgers)
12. “On the Road Again” (Brownie McGhee, Sonny Terry)

Personnel

• Brownie McGhee – guitar, vocals
• Sonny Terry – harmonica, vocals
• Arlo Guthrie – acoustic guitar, vocals
• Sugarcane Harris – violin
• Michael Franks – acoustic guitar and banjo
• John Mayall – 12-string electric guitar, piano and harmonica
• John Hammond – slide guitar
• Jerry Cole – guitar, banjo
• Jerry McGee – guitar, banjo
• Al McKay – guitar
• Harry Holt – bass guitar
• Maurice Rodgers – keyboards
• Eddie Greene – drums
• Venetta Fields, Clydie King, Marti McCall, Jackie Ward, Maxine Willard Waters, Jim Gilstrap – background vocals

Technical

• Bart Chiate – engineer
• Dean O. Torrence – artwork
• Norman Seeff – photography