Celebrating Warren Harding “Sonny” Sharrock (August 27, 1940 – May 25, 1994), an American jazz guitarist from Ossining, NY. He was an early free jazz guitarist in the 1960s and known for his heavily chorded attack, highly amplified bursts of feedback, and saxophone-like lines played loudly on guitar.
Sonny Sharrock
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I'm an expatriate Memphis musician and an instructor at a private music college in Minnesota. I find a greater clarity in my appreciation for music from Memphis and the Mississippi Delta region, now that I've lived away from it for decades, than when I was growing up in the midst of it. View more posts