Sonny Terry - Sonny Is King
Analogue Productions AAPB 521; 180g LP
Recorded by Rudy van Gelder and Fred Miles
Vinyl rip 24-bit/96kHz | FLAC (cue, m3u); Cover
~ 700 mb incl. recovery
Genre: Blues
Released: 1962

QUOTE

"...Terry was a remarkable mouth harp player, and these performances are first rate...What makes this a truly stand out record is the fine sound, which just jumps out of the speakers. Although this is a stereo recording with rather hard left and right separation (especially on the McGhee songs), that anomaly distracts little from the performance." – Dennis Davis, Hi-Fi+, Issue 43

Recording = 7/10; Music = 8/10

Although their styles were regions apart and they'd never performed together previously, Georgia harmonica ace Sonny Terry and Texas guitar titan Lightnin' Hopkins fit like foot in sock when producer Kenneth S. Goldstein paired them at Rudy Van Gelder's studio on October 26, 1960. As LeRoi Jones observed in the original album notes, "There is a meeting of ways, where the light and the sad seem to come together simply as blues." Selections six through 10 were recorded the following year, and Terry was back in the more familiar company of another great guitarist, his longtime partner Brownie McGhee.




Track Listings

Side A

1. One Monkey Don't Stop The Show
2. Changed The Lock On My Door
3. Tater Pie
4. She's So Sweet
5. Diggin' My Potatoes

Side B

1. Sonny's Coming
2. Ida Mae
3. Callin' My Mama
4. Bad Luck
5. Blues From The Bottom

Personnel:

Sonny Terry: vocals and mouthharp
Lightnin' Hopkins: guitar [Side A]
Brownie McGhee: guitar [Side B]
Leonard Gaskin: bass [Side A]
Belton Evans: drums [Side A]

Recorded by Rudy van Gelder [Side A] and Fred Miles [Side B]
Produced by Kenneth S. Goldstein

Technical Informations:

Goldring 1042GX reference Cartridge
Belari VP-129 Tube Phono PreAmp with Sylvania 12AX7WA
Tascam US-144 external USB 2.0 Audiointerface
Interconnections by "Goldkabel"
Wavelab 5 recording software

TT > Belari > Laptop > Wavelab 5.01 (24/96) > manual click removal >
analyze (no clipping, no DC Bias offset) > split into individual Tracks > FLAC encoded (Vers. 1.21)

No silence been removed, please burn gapless to match original tracklayout.

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