Re: [Harp-L] Earliest Country Harmonica - Woody Guthrie and Sonny Terry

[Winslow Yerxa <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx>]

Sonny Terry did play  harmonica on the Woody Guthrie-credited recording of Lost John; Woody just did the talking. Woody, Sonny, and Huddie Leadbetter used to play together in those days (early 1940s?).

However, Woody also played some rack harp on his own recordings where it's just him and nobody else. It's nothing like Sonny Terry's playing, and is quite decent playing for which he's never received much credit.
 
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 From: "captron100@xxxxxxx" <captron100@xxxxxxx>
To: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx; christer.molkom@xxxxxxxxx 
Sent: Saturday, September 21, 2013 5:34 PM
Subject: [Harp-L] Earliest Country Harmonica
 

Christer Svensson wrote: Thanks for that post, Lil Rev!I was especially happy to see Woody Guthrie's harp-playing appreciated................Bill Cox. He sounds like a highly possible inspiration for Woody's style. There may be others, and I would be glad to get some info.For those who haven't heard Bill Cox, here's an example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rh1KnEi3Yqs

  Christer, in the future pls. provide the quote that u are referring to when u reply.  When u forget to do this we can't access the audio u are referring to (Lil Rev's post).  But i went to *your* link and heard Bill Cox, who i don't think i've ever heard before.  But I have most certainly heard this song played by Sonny Terry on one of the old vinyl albums I used to own.  Could it be that the harp playing on the Woodie recording was actually played by Sonny Terry? 
ron