Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee helped introduce the Piedmont blues style to the white New York City folk-crowd in the 1940s, then to the rest of the United States during the folk music revival of the 1950s and 1960s, and after that, to the world. They formed one of the most enduring partnerships in blues, playing together for more than 30 years.
Terry was born Saunders Terrell in , in Greensboro, North Carolina. He lost the sight of both his...