Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee - Red River Blues [Colourised] 1946

This is a real rare one!!
This outtake is earlier and longer footage of Brownie and Sonny (as shown on the library of congress documentary).

It took a bit of messing to get the timing right when I was syncing this as I can only assume the belt on the portable record player the LOC had with them was a little loose possibly? This might also explain why they never used this footage as it randomly sped up and slowed out of time.

Eitherway, it's great to see Brownie & Sonny at an early age in such good quality footage. There is around a minute more footage of the beginning of the song but as I had no audio for that I've left that section for now until I can find the audio.

If anyone can link me to Brownie & Sonny's full audio of Red River Blues let me know and I'll revisit this and post the full footage!

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[paulkersey]

WOW! THEY WERE BOTH SO YOUNG! God bless them both in heaven

[JamesBrook]

amazing!! please don't ever stop what you do on this channel

[majorscope]

Saw them several times in the u.k. in the sixties. Fantastic entertainers.

[daisymoses]

For this rare footage I say BRAVO ! BRAVISSIMO. facepalm on the narrator.

[missbritt]

Great footage, They both look younger here than in the Rainbow quest clips with Pete Seeger