Re: [Harp-L] Roots of Sonny Terry

[Joel Fritz <jfritz666@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

tom ball wrote:
> We've all talked quite a bit recently about how influential Sonny Terry 
> was to all of us, and rightly so -- the man was truly amazing....
>
> Ever wonder, though, who Sonny himself might have listened to?
> Check out the 1929 recording of "Rain Crow Bill" by Henry Whitter:
>
> http://www.karavanrecords.net/GGWhitter.wav
>
> cheers to all & happy harpin',
>
> Tom Ball
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Then there's Buddy Moss who played harp as a sideman on records early in 
his career--very similar sound.  I like to say that Buddy Moss was 
really both Blind Boy Fuller and Sonny Terry.  <g>

My guess is that Sonny Terry played a regional style on harp (real well) 
just like Blind Boy Fuller, Buddy Moss, Rev Gary Davis, and Josh White 
(in his pre-folksinger days) did on  guitar.

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