Re: [Harp-L] "Pre-War" Harmonica

["Jim Greenwald" <staggerin@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Brad

Every musician mentioned so far has been played in depth on my Live365 
'broadcast' Roots Harmonica http://www.live365.com/stations/staggerinjim . 
So you might want to take a listen.

I agree wholeheartedly with the comment on Hammie Nixon. If you like SBI, be 
sure to check him out - I hallucinate that Sonny Boy learned from Hammie, 
though I'm not in a position to proove it. Hammie stayed with groupings that 
reflected the Tennessee / Jug tradition, and SBI gradually worked out and 
was worked into the identifiable early-Chicago sound. Unlike SBI, Nixon's 
life wasn't cut short, and he played right into the early 1980s. He had a 
really beautiful sound.

Other list members may have a Sonny Terry bio ready to paste in, but I'll 
just mention that his first recorded work under his own name was in Dec. 
1938, with sessions a year earlier accompanying "Dipper Boy" Council and 
more notably the great Blind Boy Fuller. He died in 1986, and I think his 
last sessions were in 1984 (the Johnny Winter produced album "Whoopin'")

Cheers,
Staggerin' Jim
Listen to Roots Harmonica at http://www.live365.com/stations/staggerinjim

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bradford Trainham" <btrainham@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Winslow Yerxa" <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 2:21 PM
Subject: Re: [Harp-L] "Pre-War" Harmonica


> Wow!!
> Jack Pot!!!
> Thank you!!
> And...
> I'm realizing that I'm apparently unaware of Sonny Terry's
> recording/playing/performing/existential chronology.
> Having had only a tangential exposure to him and that exposure
> centering mainly around the Blues revivals of the early/mid 60's, does
> anyone care to spin us a brief bio with emphasis on from when to when
> he recorded?
> Did I mention I !!love!! this list?
> Brad Trainham