Sonny terry whoopin the blues project
Sonny terry whoopin the blues project
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Whoopin' (album)
1984 studio album by Sonny Terry
Whoopin' is an album by the American musician Sonny Terry, released in 1984.[1][2] He is credited with Johnny Winter and Willie Dixon.[3] The album was also released as I Think I Got the Blues.[4] It was the first of Winter's two 1984 Alligator Records albums.[5]
Production
Recorded in three days, Whoopin' was produced by Winter.[6][7] He wanted to capture a rawer, Delta sound, rather than the mellower, prettier one that Terry played with Brownie McGhee.[8] "I Think I Got the Blues" was written by Dixon, who also played bass on the album.[9] Styve Homnick played drums.[10] "Ya, Ya" is a cover of the Lee Dorsey song.[11]
Critical reception
The Globe and Mail noted that, "although the familiar, jolly material ...
jumps along at Terry's usual, casual pace, Winters seems intent on pushing it into