Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee

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blues duo blues musician harmonica player musical duo

Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee were a renowned American blues duo celebrated for their influential Piedmont blues performances featuring harmonica and guitar.

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Surface form	Occurrences
Sonny Terry	0
Brownie McGhee	0

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	blues duo ⓘ blues musician ⓘ harmonica player ⓘ musical duo ⓘ
activePeriod	1940s ⓘ 1950s ⓘ 1960s ⓘ 1970s ⓘ
associatedAct	Lead Belly NERFINISHED ⓘ Lightnin' Hopkins NERFINISHED ⓘ Pete Seeger NERFINISHED ⓘ Woody Guthrie NERFINISHED ⓘ
birthName	Saunders Terrell NERFINISHED ⓘ Walter Brown McGhee NERFINISHED ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
countryOfOrigin	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
dateOfBirth	1911-10-24 ⓘ 1915-11-30 ⓘ
dateOfDeath	1986-03-11 ⓘ 1996-02-16 ⓘ
genre	Piedmont blues ⓘ Piedmont blues NERFINISHED ⓘ Piedmont blues NERFINISHED ⓘ country blues ⓘ folk blues ⓘ
influencedGenre	contemporary blues ⓘ folk revival ⓘ
languageOfWork	English ⓘ
member	Brownie McGhee NERFINISHED ⓘ Sonny Terry NERFINISHED ⓘ
notableFor	Piedmont blues performances featuring harmonica and guitar ⓘ
notableInstrument	guitar ⓘ harmonica ⓘ
notableSong	“Cornbread, Peas and Black Molasses” NERFINISHED ⓘ “Key to the Highway” (interpretation) NERFINISHED ⓘ “Walk On” NERFINISHED ⓘ
notableWork	“At the 2nd Fret” (live album) NERFINISHED ⓘ “Down Home Blues” (album) NERFINISHED ⓘ “Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee” (1958 album) NERFINISHED ⓘ
performanceStyle	acoustic duo ⓘ
placeOfBirth	Greensboro, Georgia, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ Knoxville, Tennessee, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ
placeOfDeath	Mineola, New York, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ Oakland, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ
recordLabel	Bluesville Records NERFINISHED ⓘ Fantasy Records NERFINISHED ⓘ Folkways Records NERFINISHED ⓘ

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