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Sonny Terry - The Folkway Years, 1944-1963 (1963)

Track listing:
  1. Old Jabo 2:13
  2. Going down slow 2:54
  3. Crow Jane blues 2:02
  4. Harmonica with slaps 2:04
  5. Pick a bale of cotton 2:33
  6. Dark road 2:45
  7. Skip to my Lou 1:24
  8. The woman is killing me 2:26
  9. Jail house blues 5:04
  10. Fox chase/Right on that shore 3:05
  11. Shortnin' bread 2:03
  12. Sweet woman 3:07
  13. Lost John 3:10
  14. A man is nothing but a fool 3:20
  15. Poor man(but a good man) 3:11

Notes

While he's best known as guitarist Brownie McGhee's longtime partner, harmonica ace and vocalist Sonny Terry made many excellent recordings as a solo act, and also recorded with Blind Boy Fuller and others. The 17 songs on this anthology include Terry playing with McGhee's brother Sticks, Pete Seeger, and others, as well as several featuring Terry's biting harmonica and wry leads relating stories of failure, triumph, and resiliency, backed by McGhee's flickering but always audible guitar. The title is a bit misleading, since the earliest date for any session is 1946 (one number), and most are done between 1955 and 1959.