Sonny Terry   Born into a musical family, the blind Sonny Terry
learned how to play harmonica to earn his keep, and ended up
creating a signature sound widely admired and perhaps even more
widely imitated. Terry toured for years with Brownie McGhee,
riding a wave of renewed interest in folk music that began in
the late 1950s. He thrilled audiences with his earthy Acoustic
Blues, and his harmonica work is still among the loveliest to be
found: tightly woven, countrified, and engaged in a perpetual
dialogue with other instruments. His trademark high-pitched
yawps -- which he emitted between phrases almost without
volition -- were directly imitated by countless musicians.
Nonetheless, there's nothing like hearing an original, and that
he is -- a down-home, down-to-earth original whose work could
make a stone shed tears. Listen to Sonny Terry and millions of
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