Sonny Terry
Saunders Terrell
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Emerging from Greensboro, Georgia, he learned the basics of blues harp from his father before blindness at sixteen forced him to turn to music for a livelihood, playing simple tunes for plow horses and later adopting the Piedmont style in Shelby, North Carolina. After his father’s death he teamed with guitarist Blind Boy Fuller, and following Fuller’s 1941 passing forged a long-standing partnershi…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources
