The bluesmen Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee forged a musical partnership which
lasted for 35 years and projected the men to worldwide fame during the 1950s and
'60s. Terry, born in North Carolina, was blind having lost the sight in each eye
in two separate childhood accidents. He developed his distinctive style of
harmonica playing with the famous blues guitarist Blind Boy Fuller busking on
street corners. McGhee from Knoxville, Tennessee contracted polio as a child and
grew into one of the most renowned blues guitarists of his generation.
In 1940 both Terry and McGhee found t...