Sonny Terry

harmonica, vocal, performer, jew's harp

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Top collaborators

Artist name Roles Recordings
Lead Belly
Brownie McGhee guitar Airplane Blues, Crow Jane Blues, Custard Pie Blues, Dirty Mistreater, Don't You Know, Early Morning Blues, Going Down Slow, Hot Headed Woman, I've Been Your Doggie Since I Been Your Man, Mad Man Blues, Pick a Bale of Cotton, Shortnin' Bread, Sweet Woman, Telephone Blues
Stick McGhee guitar All Alone Blues, Beer Garden Blues, Harmonica Rag, Jail House Blues, Leavin' Blues, Riff and Harmonica Jump, Screamin' and Cryin' Blues, Whoopin’ the Blues, Worried Man Blues
Warren "Baby" Dodds drums All Alone Blues, Beer Garden Blues, Harmonica Rag, Leavin' Blues, Riff and Harmonica Jump, Screamin' and Cryin' Blues, Whoopin’ the Blues, Worried Man Blues
Melvin Merritt drums, piano Airplane Blues, Crow Jane Blues, Custard Pie Blues, Dirty Mistreater, Don't You Know, Early Morning Blues, Hot Headed Woman, Mad Man Blues, Telephone Blues

Collaborators on this artist's recordings

Artist name Roles Recordings
Brownie McGhee guitar Airplane Blues, Crow Jane Blues, Custard Pie Blues, Dirty Mistreater, Don't You Know, Early Morning Blues, Going Down Slow, Hot Headed Woman, I've Been Your Doggie Since I Been Your Man, Mad Man Blues, Pick a Bale of Cotton, Shortnin' Bread, Sweet Woman, Telephone Blues
Stick McGhee guitar All Alone Blues, Beer Garden Blues, Harmonica Rag, Jail House Blues, Leavin' Blues, Riff and Harmonica Jump, Screamin' and Cryin' Blues, Whoopin’ the Blues, Worried Man Blues
Warren "Baby" Dodds drums All Alone Blues, Beer Garden Blues, Harmonica Rag, Leavin' Blues, Riff and Harmonica Jump, Screamin' and Cryin' Blues, Whoopin’ the Blues, Worried Man Blues
Melvin Merritt drums, piano Airplane Blues, Crow Jane Blues, Custard Pie Blues, Dirty Mistreater, Don't You Know, Early Morning Blues, Hot Headed Woman, Mad Man Blues, Telephone Blues
Wilbert Ellis piano Airplane Blues, Dirty Mistreater, Don't You Know, Mad Man Blues, Telephone Blues
J.C. Burris vocal, body percussion, bones Harmonica With Slaps, I've Been Your Doggie Since I Been Your Man, Poor Man (But a Good Man)
Alan Lomax recording Lost John, Worried Blues
[unknown] (Special Purpose Artist - Do not add releases here, if possible.) vocal, bones, percussion, washboard, washtub bass Custard Pie Blues, The Woman Is Killing Me
Coyal McMahan maracas Pick a Bale of Cotton
George Washington (Blues singer aka Bull City Red or Oh Red) washboard Fox Chase

Work on other artists' recordings

Artist name Roles Recordings
Lead Belly performer, vocal, harmonica (Good Night) Irene (take 1), 4, 5, and 9, Ain't You Glad, Ain’t You Glad, Defense Blues, Diggin' My Potatoes, Easy Rider, Easy Rider (See See Rider), Good Morning Blues, How Long, How Long (6502-A-3), How Long Blues, In the Evenin' (When the Sun Goes Down), In the Evenin’ When the Sun Goes Down, Irene, Irene, Good Night, John Henry, On a Monday, Outskirts of Town, Pick a Bale of Cotton, Pigmeat, Red River / Black Girl (In the Pines) / Don’t Miss Your Water Blues, Shout On (Honey I’m All Out and Down), T.B. Blues (6502-B-1), We Shall Be Free, Whoa Back Buck
Brownie McGhee performer Brownie's New Blues (feat. Sonny Terry)
Stick McGhee vocal, harmonica My Baby's Gone, Wine Blues (Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee)
Disaster Area vocal, harmonica Better Days, If You Lose Your Money, John Henry, Old Jabo, Rising Sun, Sportin' Life
Woody Guthrie vocal, harmonica Hard Travelin', Hard Traveling, Railroad Blues, We Shall Be Free, When That Great Ship Went Down (The Great Ship), When the Yanks Go Marching In
Carmine Esposito vocal, harmonica Conversation Blues, Got to Move Your Baby, Hard to Love a Woman, Last Night Blues, Rocky Mountain, So Sorry to Leave You
Ry Cooder harmonica Crossroads, Walkin' Away Blues
Zion vocal, harmonica Dark Road, Old Jabo
Nickey Barclay harmonica I Want Some of Your Pie
Hipnotic Eye harmonica We Shall Be Free
Günther Bentele vocal, harmonica Touch It Up and Go
Geny Back performer Jack Hammer Blues
Ferdinand Cannonovich vocal, harmonica The Sun Is Going Down
Champion Jack Dupree harmonica Jitterbug
Buddy Moss harmonica I’m Sittin’ Here Tonight
Blind Boy Fuller harmonica I'm a Stranger Here