It is a 16mm direct film featuring a searing soundtrack by the blues singer Sonny Terry.

He became a virtuoso on the harmonica, specializing in the style known as "talking harp" which imitated the human voice (much like Sonny Terry).

Listening to records by Robert Johnson and Sonny Terry sparked an early love for blues music.

He learned to play the 12-string guitar and blues harmonica, on which he claimed to have been tutored by Sonny Terry.

Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry is a group.

Later in 1937, he made his first recordings with Sonny Terry.

While Fuller was eventually released, it was Sonny Terry who went in his stead, the beginning of a long "folk music" career.

I made a record with Sonny Terry, called 'Whoopin', that I also like a lot.

With Sonny Terry, he appeared in the 1979 Steve Martin comedy The Jerk.

October 24 - Sonny Terry, blues musician (d. 1986)

It is a 16mm direct film featuring a searing soundtrack by the blues singer Sonny Terry.

He became a virtuoso on the harmonica, specializing in the style known as "talking harp" which imitated the human voice (much like Sonny Terry).

Listening to records by Robert Johnson and Sonny Terry sparked an early love for blues music.

He learned to play the 12-string guitar and blues harmonica, on which he claimed to have been tutored by Sonny Terry.

Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry is a group.

Later in 1937, he made his first recordings with Sonny Terry.

While Fuller was eventually released, it was Sonny Terry who went in his stead, the beginning of a long "folk music" career.

I made a record with Sonny Terry, called 'Whoopin', that I also like a lot.

With Sonny Terry, he appeared in the 1979 Steve Martin comedy The Jerk.

October 24 - Sonny Terry, blues musician (d. 1986)