Born on this day – Sonny Terry:

Sonny Terry

Singer

Musician

Blues harmonica player

October 24, 1911 – March 11, 1986

Credits:

Albums:

At Sugar Hill (1961); Back Country Blues (2014); Blind Sonny Terry (1965); Blowing Our Blues (2021); Blues Bash (1973); Blues Hoot (1963); Blues In My Soul (1961); Blues with Big Bill Broonzy, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee (1959); Down South Summit Meetin' (1960); East Coast Harmonica Blues (2015); Folk Blues (2008); Four Classic Albums (Sing / Down Home Blues / Folk Songs of Sonny Terry & Mc Ghee / At Sugar Hill) (Digitally Remastered) (2020); Get on Board (1952); Gotham Record Sessions (1990); Harmonica and Vocal Solos (Mono Version) (1952); Harmonica Hop (2011); His Golden Years (2020); Hootin' and Hollerin' (1973); I Couldn't Believe My Eyes (1973); Jazz Giants: Sonny Terry (2012); Jump, Little Children: Brownie McGhee Classics (2019); Last Night Blues (1961); Leave This Town (Live Chicago '70) (2022); Lightnin' Hopkins & The Blues Summit (2001); Live From The Ash Grove (2024); Live With Studs Terkel, WFMT Studios, Chicago, IL. Jan 28th 1970 WFMT-FM Broadcast (2019); London 1958 (2014); Nothin' but the Blues (2015); Numero Uno Blues (2020); On the Road (1959); Presenting Sonny Terry (1940); Robbin' The Grave (2014); Rock Me Momma (2010); Shakedown Blues (2000); Sing and Play (1965); Sonny & Brownie (1973); Sonny & Brownies Blues Live in London (2021); Sonny Is King (1963); Sonny Terry (2008); Sonny Terry and His Harmonica. Wailin' the Blues (1995); Sonny Terry and His Mouth-Harp (1958); Sonny Terry's New Sound: Jawharp in Blues and Folk Music: With Brownie McGhee and J. C. Burris (1961); Sonny Terry's Washboard Band (1955); Sonny's Story (1960); The Essential (2013); True Blues (2015); USA (2012); Washboard Band - Country Dance Music (1956); When He Shines, Vol. 3 (2008); Whoopin' (1984); Working Man Blues (2021).

Movies and television:

A Matter of Degrees (1990); A Roomful of Music (1965); American Horror Story (2013); American Inventory (1954); Arena (1988); Austin City Limits (2006); Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009); Bandstand (1966); Blues and Gospel Train (1964); Blues Like Showers of Rain / Legends of Country Blues Guitar (1994); Bluesland: A Portrait in American Music (1993); Book of Numbers (1973); Born to Be Blue (2015); Buck and the Preacher (1972); Cisco Pike (1971); Color Cry (1952); Crossroads (1986); Dave's Place (1965); Deadwood (2004); Dogfight (1991); Eldon Rathburn: They Shoot... He Scores (1995); En remontant le Mississippi (1973); Festival (1967); Folk America (2009); Folk Britannia (2006); Freedom Highway: Songs that Shaped a Century (2001); Freedom on My Mind (1994); From the Vaults (2018); Gangs of New York (2002); Ghost Bird (2009); Good Hair (2009); Highway 61 (1991); House at the End of the Street (2012); House of Lies (2013); Leadbelly (1976); Library of Congress (1945); Loving (2016); Manhattan (2014); Physical Graffiti: A Classic Album Under Review (2008); Quest (1962); Shoutin' the Blues (1979); Showbiz Today (1986); Stroszek (1977); Superbad (2007); The Big Something (2011); The Blues (1966 / 2003); The Blues Under the Skin (1973); The Candid Eye (1959); The Color Purple (1985); The Hart & Lorne Terrific Hour (1970); The Jerk (1979); The Midnight Special (1973); The Mike Douglas Show (1973); The Old Grey Whistle Test (1973); The Revlon Revue (1959); The Rosey Grier Show (1970); The Soul of a Man (2003); The Sunday Break (1958); The Virginia Graham Show (1971); To Hear Your Banjo Play (1947); True Blood (2009); Whoopin' the Blues (1969); Woody Guthrie: Hard Travelin' (1984).