Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee (01/28/1970)

May 8, 2026, 11:00 pm

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Sonny Terry and Walter Brown "Brownie" McGhee, c. 1964 (Lennie's on the Turnpike Collection, Salem State University Archives and Special Collections, Salem, Massachusetts | CC BY 4.0)

This evening’s Best of Studs Terkel rebroadcast features bluesmen Sonny Terry (1911 – 1986) with his harmonica and Brownie McGhee (1915 – 1996) at the guitar. The duo were a team for a long time, and Studs opens this program from 1970 with an excerpt of an earlier Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee concert which Studs had introduced 11 years before.