+Tom thx American communists of that generation get a pass. All of Stalin's crimes were covered up by Churchill as the price for switching sides in WWII. They simply didn't know that the Soviets made the Nazis look like amateurs at mass murder.
I'll never forget seeing them back in the '60's at a little club near Maple Leaf Gardens on Church Street in Toronto called the Fifth Peg. Sunday night was their last set and the small group of us gathered around them wouldn't let them quit. Finally, they stood up and led us all down a long corridor and out onto the sidewalk. We followed them up to the corner, and under the streetlight they did "Keys to the Highway". We embraced, and I know I had tears in my eyes.
wow this comment is 8 years old but absolutely..pete may have sympathized with communism but his intentions were pure..he loved the american ppl and God bless his ass
Sonny Terry is THE reason I began to play harmonica. His playing is so alive, filled with real Soul. Sonny's harp together with Brownie's facile guitar and beautiful, rich voice made music that move me to my core to this very day. O Yes.
Brilliant, love it all. Remembering with love when they ‘arrived’ in rural northland , New Zealand five decades ago. Everyone started blowing up the harmonica, amazing sound next to the steel guitar. Grateful fan here.
Had the pleasure of seeing Sonny Terry and Brownie McGee in small venues in Vancouver twice in the 60's and 70's. Wish I could go back and see 'em again. Nothing like seeing great musicians up close and live.
Great version! Love all the verses. Brownie McGhee did a fine job of singing, and Sonny Terry is amazing as he always was - love his harp and his whoops too!
Thank you for sharing this image! We have added it to our entry about the Sonny Terry in the State Library of NC's online encyclopedia, NCpedia Emily Horton, Government & Heritage Library at the State Library of NC
@curtistembeck You're dead right,why hate when you can love.This music is awesome and it needed to be documented or it would die out with the explosion of rock n roll.These guys knew that and were smart enough to record as much as possible before it was gone if it were not for them we wouldn't be able to listen to such classics.THANKS FOR THE UPLOAD!
my dad played this shit on vinyl. Us kids didn't undig it. In fact it fucked us up for about 30 years. And here I am, lovin it much love to all you people
Pete Seger gave rise to the likes of Dylan. Like Guthrie did Seger. Seger brought an alternate universe of blues music to the living rooms of households across this nation before any of us knew British Invasion was more than just a revolution.
how young are you? because America wasn't what you think, maybe in the arts it was and it was great if you are white but tell black men my age how it was…1967 high school class trip to D.C. 5 white kids and 4 black kids were at arlington we needed to use the rest room and as we were going in the men's room door an attendant said this bathroom isn't for you boys so we thought we read the sign wrong but then he told us us white men were allowed but you drakes have to go down over there…so in the America you say was so great? still had segregated rest rooms in 1967 in our nation's city…sorry but you were either sheltered or just too young or lived in an area that was better than most
23 people with different tastes. We all should respect each other. No matter the differences. I too have trouble understanding, but we're just different, and that's all.
@@charlessunu That poem makes me think of a certain leader. High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim;- Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Please excuse the poor copy/paste job, it's late.
This is the song that changed my life when I saw them at Sydney Town Hall over 50 years ago . . . then I read Jack Kerouac's "On The Road", Freedom beckoned, and my world was never the same. Still travellin' home after all this time . . . one day I'll find it . . . This still gives me the shivers every time I hear it or sing it!!
@@homesickclifford1966 Man I don't have any idea how you managed to tell such an amazing story as that, the story of your life no less, in basically a paragraph. But man, that brought tears to my eyes. Holy crap the human spirit is something else! God bless you sir! God bless you! And thank you for telling your story. Talk about getting lemons, and making lemonade out of them. Wow! Just wow!
@@homesickclifford1966 God bless you sir. You deleted your reply, but I still got it in my email. I agree with everything you said. I wish you, and yours, nothing but the best. Keep on keeping on, and please don't ever change. ☺️👍
@@homesickclifford1966 BTW I think yesterday's voting results showed that there's still plenty of people out there who really care about our world, and the people in it. Besides themselves.
@@amb3cog Did not know I deleted ..how does comment get into emails. That bothers me some..are these manipulated? ILL FIND OUT IF SO!!!.... Any way how y'all? Was it something' I said?....got a feeling..... One never knows bout no one. One minute everything fine THEY LOVE THEN THEY HATE OR ARE SCARED TO DEATH OF ME...if this political environment is vital to you OK I accept people as they ARE . If ya just said all ya had ta say that's yo life man I kinda thought our political differerence was an issue..FACT IS IM NOT POLITICAL AT ALL..LEFT RIGHT ITS ALL CONFUSION TO ME. SO NICE TALKIN TO YA THANKS FOR THE KIND WORDS ALL I CAN SAY......NEVER BEEN UNGRATEFUL..THAT'S WHAT MAKES ME WHO I AM AND THAT'S GOOD ENOUGH FOR ME I'M NOT A MAN PLEASER.. HAVE A GOOD LIFE SCOTT ,DONT KNOW ANY THING BOUT YA. MOST ON THIS COMMENTS MAKE INSANE NASTY CHILDISH PROVOKING TALK SPOKE OF MY LIFE,, PROBABLY SHOULDN'T. MOST PEOPLE CANT HANDLE PERSONAL THINGS..THEY THINK LIFE IS A BIG JOKE ....I KNOW HOW HARD IT IS AND GONNA BE . PAOLO
I love this song it makes me smile every day this song is like a part of my life where I just will never let go of and I will never forget this song... I'm holding on your rope got me ten feet off the ground and I'm here what you say but I just can't make a sound you tell me that you need me then you go and cut me down but wait you tell me that you're sorry didn't mean I turn around and Say
I saw them in a club in Hollywood round about 1970+- ... somehow got to go upstairs with them after the show. Milk with whiskey. Don't remember for sure which one of them was drinking that but I think it was Sonny Terry.
To jest to, czego tygrysy potrzebują najbardziej, gdy są w nostalgicznym nastroju. Malum est in necessitate vivere, sed in necessitate vivere necessitas nulla est.(Seneka) :-D Pozdrawiam z Polski wszystkich Bluesmanów.
Hats off to Pete for leaving us these precious musical documents. No frills here - these two get right down to it.
It has nothing to do with Pete, he was the librarian
If there were more librarians like Pete Seeger this world would be a better place to live in.
And thank you to the late Pete Seeger for bringing us the acts we couldn't see anywhere else on TV.
Pete aeeger is a folk champion
Such a great man
That "whiteguy" is a legend of American folk music who helped bring the soul of music to us all around world. Show some respect.
May Pete rest in peace!
yeah he was a communist that wrote songs for stalin
+Tom thx American communists of that generation get a pass. All of Stalin's crimes were covered up by Churchill as the price for switching sides in WWII. They simply didn't know that the Soviets made the Nazis look like amateurs at mass murder.
So are the Black guys
Pete Seeger has left such a legacy. I didn’t know he was tight w Somny and Terry.
I'll never forget seeing them back in the '60's at a little club near Maple Leaf Gardens on Church Street in Toronto called the Fifth Peg. Sunday night was their last set and the small group of us gathered around them wouldn't let them quit. Finally, they stood up and led us all down a long corridor and out onto the sidewalk. We followed them up to the corner, and under the streetlight they did "Keys to the Highway". We embraced, and I know I had tears in my eyes.
Now that's a very nice! story...i love that .
wonderful experience！
this makes me happy! I wish i could have seen them.
What a great story. Thank you for sharing it with us.
How beautiful!
My introduction to the blues 60 years ago. They stand the test of time.
I'm just a white boy lost in the Blues - John Mayall
Show Pete some respect folks, it's his damn show. American music would be a cold lonely place if it wasn't for guys like Pete Seager and Alan Lomax
Pete was a stinking commie. But Sonny and Brownie were - ARE - national treasures.
@@davelasorte44" A Commie" ha,ha!!! Welcome to the 1950's Mr McCarty.
Enormous Brownie, Sonny and Pete.
@@davelasorte44
an you are fascist, eventhough you preten not to be one of them. you insulted Pete : shut up ! your place is not here ...
wow this comment is 8 years old but absolutely..pete may have sympathized with communism but his intentions were pure..he loved the american ppl and God bless his ass
This song grabs on, and doesn't let go.Not for 50 years. Thank-you Sonny Terry and Browny McGhee.
All others who played this song as well, humbly bow down and fold hands, please.
Got to see these two legends at Jed’s in Nawlins in 1980. 💚
three giants of American culture right here. what I would give to be able to pull up a chair to the unoccupied side of that table...
Sonny Terry is THE reason I began to play harmonica. His playing is so alive, filled with real Soul. Sonny's harp together with Brownie's facile guitar and beautiful, rich voice made music that move me to my core to this very day. O Yes.
An era of history that is a drop in the bucket of time- gone , never to return. Enjoy this while you can.
My parents played this over and over on the record player!!!!!! Both singing the blues on a daily basis-----
They didn't just sing it,...they lived it. Awesome.....
After listening to this, i realise that BB King did it very well. God bless all of them artists who contributed well into making the blues.
brownie, one of the best vocalists.
This song was my introduction to the blues and I fell in love.
You can see how this folky blues music definitely was the inspiration for R & B & Rock music, excellent!
Brilliant, love it all. Remembering with love when they ‘arrived’ in rural northland , New Zealand five decades ago. Everyone started blowing up the harmonica, amazing sound next to the steel guitar. Grateful fan here.
Had no idea they came here. Thanks..
Had the pleasure of seeing Sonny Terry and Brownie McGee in small venues in Vancouver twice in the 60's and 70's. Wish I could go back and see 'em again. Nothing like seeing great musicians up close and live.
Met these guys in Michigan in the early seventies, nicest gentlemen I've ever met. I'm a harp player, Sonny gave me some good tips, Good times.
Michigan was cool in the early 70's. I grew up there.
"I got the key to the highway - cryin' won't make me stay" the line from their live performance many years ago. Unforgettable.
Yeah! Sonny & Brownie! Acouple of my favs since I saw them back in '66 at The Fillmore.
this is the essence of music. Simply wonderful
I met them and spoke to them in Utrecht, the Netherlands long time ago. Concert in Vredenburg !!! somewhere in the 80ties?
What a beautiful voice Brownie McGhee had.
Brings back memories of listening to the Blues with my dad. These two were his favourite. Good times indeed. Credit to Pete Seeger for recording this.
Saw Sonny Terry and Brownie MtexadcGee in Austin t
I saw Sonny Terry and Brownie Magee in Austin about 50 years ago.
I believe it was at the Bass Concert Hall.🎉
RIP Pete Seeger - amazing footage, makes me smile :)
Amen
he was a communist
and such a good one
Great version! Love all the verses. Brownie McGhee did a fine job of singing, and Sonny Terry is amazing as he always was - love his harp and his whoops too!
Best blues duo ever
I never knew there were all of these verses. Now MY favorite version as well.
Man, it just don't get better than this. A Big Bill tune done by Sonny & Terry. I'm in heaven!
Thank-you for posting this video! What a gem. One of the songs that started a lifelong love of the Blues for me.
Thank you for sharing this image! We have added it to our entry about the Sonny Terry in the State Library of NC's online encyclopedia, NCpedia
Emily Horton, Government & Heritage Library at the State Library of NC
I like how pete plays the blues on banjo
Hell, you can play the blues on anything. Taj Mahal with a tuba is one of my favorites, on "Cakewalk Into Town."
Love these guys! My favorite song of theirs is Long Gone, about an escaped prisoner, super funny stuff!
How have I gone my whole life without hearing this before? My musical education has been sadly lacking.
It's never too late. You can begin at age 15 or you can begin at age 55...just as long as you begin.
@curtistembeck You're dead right,why hate when you can love.This music is awesome and it needed to be documented or it would die out with the explosion of rock n roll.These guys knew that and were smart enough to record as much as possible before it was gone if it were not for them we wouldn't be able to listen to such classics.THANKS FOR THE UPLOAD!
Seems like i have died and gone to heaven , this is just the cream on the coffee , much respect to these guys 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
Words cannot describe how awesome this is!
Saw these guys playing on the street one afternoon in Minneapolis
Good Ol' Blues
Wonderful trio. Masters of American music.
my dad played this shit on vinyl. Us kids didn't undig it. In fact it fucked us up for about 30 years. And here I am, lovin it much love to all you people
O man, I'm digg'n. Put these boys in heaven and let me drive there...
Absolutely Timeless!!! These two guys were the Greatest Duo Ever!!
My husband wants this played at his funeral! What a recording.
+Marieanne D'Antonio-Hunt
Strange to say, I had the same thought about my own departure .
It's a great metaphor for a rich and complicated life well lived, I think.
me too! an excellent retirement song.
ME TOO
@@marieannedantonio-hunt2120
Yeah right.
Missed Sonny by a couple months, but Brownie was at the Wheatland fest both on stage and under a bigtop tent. Memories and Happy Thoughts
I'M THE HIGHWAY WALKINEST MAN, WORLD EVER SEEN. WOOOOOOEEE, YOU GOT TO BEEN THERE SING LYRICS LIKE THAT.😯
Pete Seger gave rise to the likes of Dylan. Like Guthrie did Seger. Seger brought an alternate universe of blues music to the living rooms of households across this nation before any of us knew British Invasion was more than just a revolution.
Without Pete seager .....and others ......we would never have been blessed with the privilege of hearing these artists and ledgends......my idols😊
Someone get on the road and play this kinda music 🎶🎵!
Used to listen to these boys in my teens in the mid 70's. Fantastic musicians, great songs.
Wonderful performance.... thanks for this upload.... Love the blues.
Imagine the cold, dead hearts of the people who gave this a thumbs down.
Thanks for sharing this one may youtube keep it alive
This is when America was great again. black and white folks playing music together. Luvin this long time!
how young are you? because America wasn't what you think, maybe in the arts it was and it was great if you are white but tell black men my age how it was…1967 high school class trip to D.C. 5 white kids and 4 black kids were at arlington we needed to use the rest room and as we were going in the men's room door an attendant said this bathroom isn't for you boys so we thought we read the sign wrong but then he told us us white men were allowed but you drakes have to go down over there…so in the America you say was so great? still had segregated rest rooms in 1967 in our nation's city…sorry but you were either sheltered or just too young or lived in an area that was better than most
Sweetest version! They totally nail it!
Brilliant! Absolute legends all three😎......
Comfort makes you weak hardship makes you strong and real. Sonny and Bronie are proof if there ever was
How can any living creature dislike this :)
WAH, wah, WAH
as of now.. May 2, 2018.. there are 23 dislikes.. 23 people with no soul.
23 people with different tastes. We all should respect each other. No matter the differences. I too have trouble understanding, but we're just different, and that's all.
breathes there a man with soul so dead......
@@charlessunu That poem makes me think of a certain leader.
High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim;- Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self,
Please excuse the poor copy/paste job, it's late.
Saw him twice 12 years ago at benfit to save the Wetlands in NewJersey and again at the benefit to free Leonard Peltier in the Beacon theater in NYC
Pure GOLD!
My favourite Blues duo
Heard this on a library record when I was about 16. Loved these guys. Great video - thanks for posting!
Saw them in Melbourne at the Troubadour. Memory fails me, 71 maybe 75. Takes me back
Pffff !!!! Un jour peut-être, quand je serais grand, je jouerai le blues comme eux.
Pffft!!!= ??? Un jour ..un jour..avec étude et effort..pluesieurs tutoriels sur utube por le blues! 👂👀👍 I'll faut travailler..OK?
Hard nose the Key to the Highway, with the blessings of the late goon afficianado Harry Secombe.❤
This is the song that changed my life when I saw them at Sydney Town Hall over 50 years ago . . . then I read Jack Kerouac's "On The Road", Freedom beckoned, and my world was never the same.
Still travellin' home after all this time . . . one day I'll find it . . .
This still gives me the shivers every time I hear it or sing it!!
Thanks for sharing this.
Its a really special song...
@@homesickclifford1966 Man I don't have any idea how you managed to tell such an amazing story as that, the story of your life no less, in basically a paragraph. But man, that brought tears to my eyes. Holy crap the human spirit is something else! God bless you sir! God bless you! And thank you for telling your story. Talk about getting lemons, and making lemonade out of them. Wow! Just wow!
@@homesickclifford1966 God bless you sir. You deleted your reply, but I still got it in my email. I agree with everything you said. I wish you, and yours, nothing but the best. Keep on keeping on, and please don't ever change. ☺️👍
@@homesickclifford1966 BTW I think yesterday's voting results showed that there's still plenty of people out there who really care about our world, and the people in it. Besides themselves.
@@amb3cog
Did not know I deleted ..how does comment get into emails. That bothers me some..are these manipulated? ILL FIND OUT IF SO!!!.... Any way how y'all? Was it something' I said?....got a feeling..... One never knows bout no one. One minute everything fine THEY LOVE THEN THEY HATE OR ARE SCARED TO DEATH OF ME...if this political environment is vital to you OK I accept people as they ARE . If ya just said all ya had ta say that's yo life man I kinda thought our political differerence was an issue..FACT IS IM NOT POLITICAL AT ALL..LEFT RIGHT ITS ALL CONFUSION TO ME. SO NICE TALKIN TO YA THANKS FOR THE KIND WORDS ALL I CAN SAY......NEVER BEEN UNGRATEFUL..THAT'S WHAT MAKES ME WHO I AM AND THAT'S GOOD ENOUGH FOR ME I'M NOT A MAN PLEASER.. HAVE A GOOD LIFE SCOTT ,DONT KNOW ANY THING BOUT YA. MOST ON THIS COMMENTS MAKE INSANE NASTY CHILDISH PROVOKING TALK SPOKE OF MY LIFE,, PROBABLY SHOULDN'T. MOST PEOPLE CANT HANDLE PERSONAL THINGS..THEY THINK LIFE IS A BIG JOKE ....I KNOW HOW HARD IT IS AND GONNA BE .
PAOLO
I love this song it makes me smile every day this song is like a part of my life where I just will never let go of and I will never forget this song... I'm holding on your rope got me ten feet off the ground and I'm here what you say but I just can't make a sound you tell me that you need me then you go and cut me down but wait you tell me that you're sorry didn't mean I turn around and Say
Been awhile since a song gave me shivers, but this one hit me
Best medicine ever.
Those two were awesome I first heard there music in the seventies . Too bad they weren’t know more they were true troubadours
Wow this is a great verison
it s first time wen l see bonjo in blues.
🙏🌹Praise be to God.
I saw them in a club in Hollywood round about 1970+- ... somehow got to go upstairs with them after the show. Milk with whiskey. Don't remember for sure which one of them was drinking that but I think it was Sonny Terry.
Brill stuff.. two of my all time greatest... and a fab example of less truly is more.. regards Dave 😁
To jest to, czego tygrysy potrzebują najbardziej, gdy są w nostalgicznym nastroju.
Malum est in necessitate vivere, sed in necessitate vivere necessitas nulla est.(Seneka) :-D
Pozdrawiam z Polski wszystkich Bluesmanów.
Warms my soul and I drag out the harp and life is good!!!
Fantastic. Great version!
Feels good :)
Thanks for uploading this. :)
Love this!
Um dos melhores Blues pra mim até hoje! fantástico....
artists Legends of blessed blues.harmonica vocals,guitar.
Lovin it.
beautiful. i love the blues.
Excellent, thanks!
Outstanding!
Just brilliant!
This is awesome so beautifull.
i love blues, ciao da trieste italy!
Pure Gold!! As real as it gets. Great intro by Pete.
Thanks for post.
Lindo de ver e ouvir os grandes mestres do blues
This is priceless !
total class
So GREAT! DAMB what an artist.
awesome. what a find.
not forgotted , dam good stuf
fantastisch.. Great... wunderbar..Herz ♥ und Gefühl...