Sonny & Brownie
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| Sonny & Brownie | ||||
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| Studio album by Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee | ||||
| Released | 1973 | |||
| Recorded | 1973 | |||
| Genre | Blues | |||
| Length | 44:34 | |||
| Label | A&M | |||
| Producer | Hal Winn, Maurice Rodgers[1] | |||
| Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee chronology | ||||
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   [1] |
| The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings |  [2] |
Sonny & Brownie is an album by the blues musicians Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee. It was recorded at the Paramount Recording Studios (in Hollywood, California, United States) in 1973, and re-released in 1988 with digital remastering by Rudy Van Gelder at the Van Gelder Recording Studio.
Track listing
- "People Get Ready" (Curtis Mayfield)
- "Bring It on Home to Me" (Sam Cooke)
- "You Bring Out the Boogie in Me" (Michael Franks)
- "Sail Away" (Randy Newman)
- "Sonny's Thing" (Sonny Terry)
- "White Boy Lost in the Blues" (Michael Franks)
- "Battle Is Over (But the War Goes On)" (Jerry Winn, Maurice Rodgers)
- "Walkin' My Blues Away" (Brownie McGhee, Sonny Terry)
- "Big Wind (Is A' Comin')" (G. Michaels, Maurice Rodgers)
- "Jesus Gonna Make It Alright" (Michael Franks)
- "God and Man" (Maurice Rodgers)
- "On the Road Again" (Brownie McGhee, Sonny Terry)
Personnel
- Brownie McGhee - electric guitar (3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 12), acoustic guitar (1, 9, 11), guitar (2, 10), vocals (except 5)
- Sonny Terry - harmonica, vocals (2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12)
- Arlo Guthrie – acoustic guitar (1, 4), piano (11), vocals (4)
- Sugarcane Harris – violin (1, 2, 5)
- Michael Franks - acoustic guitar (1, 3, 9, 11, 12) and banjo (4)
- John Mayall - 12-string electric guitar (5, 7), piano (6, 8), harmonica (5, 6) and vocals (6)
- John Hammond - slide guitar (8)
- Jerry Cole – electric guitar (4, 8), banjo (9) and dobro (11)
- Jerry McGee – dobro (2, 10), electric guitar (3, 7)
- Al McKay – electric guitar (1, 7, 12)
- Harry Holt - bass guitar (except 5, 11)
- Maurice Rodgers – electric piano (1, 6, 7, 12), piano (2, 3, 4, 7, 10), thumb piano (4), Moog (9)
- Eddie Greene - drums
- Venetta Fields, Clydie King, Jackie Ward - background vocals (9)
- Marti McCall, Maxine Willard Waters, Jim Gilstrap - background vocals (1, 4, 10, 11)
- Technical
- Bart Chiate - engineer
- Dean O. Torrence - artwork
- Norman Seeff - photography
References
- ^ Al Campbell. "Mighty Mo Rodgers | Biography". AllMusic. Retrieved 2014-03-11.
- ^ Russell, Tony; Smith, Chris (2006). The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings. Penguin. p. 643. ISBN 978-0-140-51384-4.
