Sonny Terry

Aliases: Sonny "Hootin'" Terry and His Night Owls
Sonny Terry and His Buckshot Five
Real name: Saunders Terrell
Born: October 24, 1911
Died: March 11, 1986
Country: United States
IPI: 00030423337 6 works
00030423631 9 works
Affiliation: BMI
Comments: Blind Piedmont blues harmonica player and singer, who recorded a few records during the 1930s and 1940s, but found wider fame in the folk revival of the 1950s and 1960s.
Member of: Washboard Band
The Union Boys (1944)
Family: J.C. Burris Nephew

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	Title	Performer	Release date	Originally by
i	Alcoholic Blues	Sonny Terry	1952	Vernon Dalhart REC, Billy Murray REL
	Baby Please Don't Go	Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee	1960	Joe Williams' Washboard Blues Singers
	Beautiful City	Sonny Terry	1952	(unknown)
	Blues All Around My Bed	Sonny Terry, J.C. Burris, Sticks McGhee	June 1959	Blind Boy Fuller
	Boll Weevil Blues	Woody Guthrie acc. Sonny Terry & Cisco Houston	1962	Fiddlin' John Carson
	Bring It on Home to Me	Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee	1973	Charles Brown & Amos Milburn, Sam Cooke
	California Blues	Sonny Terry	1954	Jimmie Rodgers [US1]
	Children, Go Where I Send Thee	Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee	1960	Dennis Crumpton & Robert Summers
	Coal Creek March - Pay Day at Coal Creek - Buddy Won't You Roll down the Line - Arkansas Traveler	Pete Seeger and Sonny Terry	1958	Marion Underwood, (unknown), Watts and Wilson, (unknown)
	Crawdad Song	Woody Guthrie, Cisco Houston, Sonny Terry	1954	Honeyboy and Sassafras
	Crow Jane Blues	Sonny Terry	1959	Julius Daniels
	Diggin' My Potatoes	Sonny Terry	1955	Little Son Joe
	Don't You Lie to Me	Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry	1961	Tampa Red
	Down by the Riverside	Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee	1969	Fisk University Jubilee Singers
	Easy Rider	Sonny Terry, J.C. Burris, Sticks McGhee	June 1959	Ma Rainey - Acc. by Her Georgia Jazz Band
	Glory	Sonny Terry, Alek, Woody Guthrie, Cisco Houston	1945	Fisk University Male Quartette
	Goin' Down Slow	Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee	October 1965	St. Louis Jimmy
	Good Morning Blues	Lead Belly accompanied by Sonny Terry	1943	Leadbelly
	"Goofing-Off Theme", Kum ba ya, O What a Beautiful City	Pete Seeger and Sonny Terry	1958	(unknown), (unknown)
	Hard Traveling	Woody Guthrie acc. Sonny Terry & Cisco Houston	1962	Woody Guthrie
	How Long	Lead Belly, Sanders Terry	1943	Ida Cox, Leroy Carr
	Ida B.	Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry	1965	Roosevelt Sykes
	I Got a Woman	Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry	1961	Southern Tones, Ray Charles and His Band
	I Shall Not Be Moved	Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee	1960	(unknown)
	I Shall Not Be Moved	Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee, Coyal McMahan	February 1952	(unknown)
	It Was Sad When That Great Ship Went Down	Woody Guthrie, Sonny Terry, Cisco Houston	1954	(unknown)
	Jesus Met the Woman at the Well	Blind Gary Davis with Sonny Terry	1953	(unknown)
	John Henry	Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry	1958	Fiddlin' John Carson
	John Henry	Lead Belly, Sanders Terry	1943	Fiddlin' John Carson
	Just a Dream (On My Mind)	Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee	1959	Big Bill
	Living with the Blues	Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry	May 1961	Brownie McGhee
	Lolly Lo	Woody Guthrie, Blind Sonny Terry, Cisco Houston	1945	(unknown) Covered by Tim Barry
i	Lost John	Sonny Terry	1938	Henry Whitter
	Mean Old Frisco	Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee	October 1965	Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup
	Midnight Special	Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry	May 1961	Rev. C.D. Montgomery, Dave Cutrell with McGinty's Oklahoma Cow Boy Band
	Motherless Children	Blind Gary Davis with Sonny Terry	1953	Blind Willie Johnson
	Mule Skinner Blues	Pete Seeger, Jerry Silverman, Sonny Terry	1954	Jimmie Rodgers [US1]
	Oh, What a Beautiful City	Blind Gary Davis with Sonny Terry	1953	(unknown)
	On a Monday	Lead Belly, Sanders Terry	1943	Lead Belly
	One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer	Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee	June 1999	Amos Milburn and His Aladdin Chickenshackers
	Passing Through	Pete Seeger and Sonny Terry	1958	Pete Seeger REL, Dick Blakeslee REC
	Pawn Shop	Brownie and Sonny	1960	Brownie McGhee
	People Get Ready	Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee	1973	The Impressions
	Pick a Bale of Cotton	Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee, Coyal McMahan	February 1952	(unknown)
	Pick a Bale of Cotton	Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee	July 1960	Unverified
	Pick a Bale of Cotton	Woody Guthrie, Sonny Terry, Alek Stewart (Woody Guthrie, Sonny Terry, Alec Seward)	1963	Unverified
	Poor Boy from Home	Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee	1962	(unknown)
	Precious Lord	Brother George and His Sanctified Singers (Blind Boy Fuller, Sonny Terry, Bull City Red)	August 1940	(unknown), Wiseman Sextet, Heavenly Gospel Singers
i	Rain Crow Bill	Woody Guthrie with Sonny Terry	1994	Henry Whitter
	Rock Island Line	Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee	1967	Rock Island Colored Booster Quartet PRF, Kelly Pace and Group REC, Lead Belly REL
	Rozhenkles mit Mandeln - In Tarrytown - Clean-o - Ladies' Auxiliary	Pete Seeger and Sonny Terry	1958	Woody Guthrie, (unknown), (unknown)
	Sail Away	Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee	1973	Randy Newman
i	Shortnin' Bread	Sonny Terry	1952	(unknown)
	Sittin' on Top of the World	Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee	October 1965	Mississippi Sheiks
	Springfield Mountain	Woody Guthrie acc. Sonny Terry, Cisco Houston, Bess Hawes	1962	(unknown)
	Take This Hammer	Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee	1962	Lead Belly
	The Bells of Rhymery - Reuben James - The Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly - Down by the Riverside	Pete Seeger and Sonny Terry	1958	(unknown), (unknown), The Almanac Singers, Burl Ives, Fisk University Jubilee Singers Covered by (26 artists)
	The Midnight Special	Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee, Coyal McMahan	February 1952	Rev. C.D. Montgomery, Dave Cutrell with McGinty's Oklahoma Cow Boy Band
	The Midnight Special	Chris Barber's Jazz Band with Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee (Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee)	1958	Unverified
	Trouble in Mind	Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry	1969	Thelma La Vizzo
	Twelve Gates to the City	Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee	1960	(unknown)
	Twelve Gates to the City	Brother George and His Sanctified Singers (Blind Boy Fuller, Sonny Terry, Bull City Red)	April 1940	(unknown)
	When I Was Drinking	Brownie McGhee, Sonny Terry	1981	Big Bill
	Whoopee Ti Yi Yo, Get Along Little Dogies	Woody Guthrie with Cisco Houston and Sonny Terry	1964	Wilfred Glenn and Shannon Quartet
	You Got to Move	Blind Gary Davis with Sonny Terry	1953	The Willing Four

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