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Title: Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee – Live From The Ash Grove Format: CD Label: Wiener World Barcode: 089353503826
Release date: July 26th 2024
Previously unavailable performance from blind harp wizard Sonny Terry and legendary blues guitarist Brownie McGhee at the Ash Grove recorded in 1973.
Blind harp wizard Sonny Terry and legendary blues guitarist Brownie McGhee had a 35-year-long partnership that helped define the 1960s folk/blues revival movement. Never before available 8-track performance recorded at the Ash Grove in Hollywood in 1973 with 2 bonus tracks from 1965. On the movie screen they appeared together in the Steve Martin’s movie “The Jerk”. Sonny was featured in Steven Spielberg’s “The Color Purple” and Brownie in “Angel Heart”. In 1982 they were acknowledged with the National Endowment for the Arts Heritage Fellowship award.
