Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee, Lightnin' Hopkins – Blues Is Life (VG+/VG+) – LP, AU

Blues Is Life is an LP by Lightnin' Hopkins, Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee released on the Interfusion label.

About this album

Blues Hoot Live Recording At The Ash Grove is a vivid live meeting of three towering bluesmen at their most spontaneous. Recorded in 1963, the album brings together Brownie McGhee, Lightnin' Hopkins and Sonny Terry in a setting that favours conversation, quick-fire interplay and hard-won authority over polish. The Ash Grove date captures the easy chemistry between guitar, harmonica and voice, with blues standards and working repertory reimagined in front of an audience. As a document of the early 1960s folk-blues revival, it shows how these artists helped carry country blues into a new era of listeners.