Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee Washboard Band - Country Dance Music (CD, Not Now Music, 1956) *****
Brownie McGhee Brownie McGhee Blues (CD, Not Now Music, 1955) ***
Sonny Terry Sonny Terry's Washboard Band (CD, Not Now Music, 1955) ***
Genre: Blues
Places I remember: The Warehouse (Palmerston North)
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Cindy
Gear costume: Rising Son
Active compensatory factors: This is a 2-CD pack called Cripple Creek (after a song on the second album listed above). The first album is pretty much just Sonny and Brownie doing what they do best.
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Cindy
Gear costume: Rising Son
Active compensatory factors: This is a 2-CD pack called Cripple Creek (after a song on the second album listed above). The first album is pretty much just Sonny and Brownie doing what they do best.
The Washboard Band's Country Dance Music has both of them augmented by Pete Seeger on banjo and two other musicians. It is a hoot and a half! Just brilliant playing on exactly what it says in the title - country dance music.
The other two discs are solo albums and while they are, of course, worthwhile, they do both prove that they needed each other to create magic - Sonny's harmonica and Brownie's guitar and vocals are a dynamite combination as those first two albums clearly demonstrate.
Where do they all belong? I missed this compilation when I wrote about Sonny and Brownie's other albums. I loved rediscovering this - especially that Country Dance Music album.
Where do they all belong? I missed this compilation when I wrote about Sonny and Brownie's other albums. I loved rediscovering this - especially that Country Dance Music album.
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