SONNY BOY TERRY BAND THANKS HOUSTON BLUES SOCIETY AND FANS.  WOW! What more can I say except thank you to the Houston Blues Society, KPFT 90.1, all our fans and supporters, and especially Houston blues lovers for all the incredible support? Winning the Houston regional International Blues Challenge and representing our great city in Memphis for the nationals is an honor of a lifetime. I cannot possibly express my gratitude. The Sonny Boy Terry Band made a strong showing in Memphis and our "street team" from Houston did a fine job of getting the word out and creating a buzz for us. We hope everyone is pleased with our efforts. We did our very best to take advantage of such a wonderful opportunity and made quite a few valuable contacts while discovering many avenues for success provided by the Blues Foundation. Certainly, we came up short for the grand prize and we congratulate the winner. However were advised by the Blues Foundation right off to not be discouraged. Lots of great acts use the IBCs to launch thier careers but did not win it all. If you have the goods and the desire to make your way the old fashion way, this is still a great opportunity. The Sonny Boy Terry Band Support Team  The IBCs in Memphis is the best blues music conference in the world. Hopefully, we can participate again in 2011 in some capacity. We couldn't be more appreciative. This was all a tremendous honor. So many people got behind us and we want everyone to know how grateful we are. AGAIN, THANKS EVERYONE. |
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Here's another great new full length interview done by Houstonian Abby Owen at AMERICAN BLUES NEWS for thier July edition. AMERICAN BLUES NEWS is certainly one of the most well known online blues publication and one of the most read in the world at the moment. That means following the success Sonny Boy Terry had at the IBCs in Memphis this year, the recent airplay on sirius/xm to go along with trhe huge success of the Texas Harmonica Festival, good things continue to happen as SBT attempts to break out nationally. Even better yet, this was just part one. Part two is expected to come out in August. Please visit 
Houston, Texas bluesman and leading harmonica player Sonny Boy Terry is a featured blues musician in author Alan Govenar's new book, TEXAS BLUES:THE RISE A CONTEMPORARY SOUND. Distributed by Texas A&M Press, the book is actually a revised edition of 1988's Meeting the Blues: The Rise of the Texas Sound . The new edition, nearly all oral histories by the artists themselves adds many more Texas artists giving the book an honest and well rounded portrayal of the historical beginnings of Texas blues up to a newer generation of performers - renown and obscure, young and old, black and white. This 600 plus page book features (along with Sonny Boy Terry) Lightnin' Hopkins, Juke Boy Bonner, T-Bone Walker, Big Mama Thorton, Joe Guitar Hughes, Grady Gaines, Trudy Lynn, Texas Johnny Brown, Little Ray Ybarra, Mike Morgan, Stevie Ray Vaughn, The Fabulous T-Birds, BB King - too many greats to list - many in thier very own words. To purchase "Texas Blues", please visit 
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(PHOTO, left to right; Hunter Brucks, Henry H-Bomb Weck, and Sonny Boy Terry) Houston's Sonny Boy Terry and former Brownsville Station drummer and platinum record producer (Blackfoot Strikes) Henry H-Bomb Weck came back to the farm amd factory town of Van Wert, Ohio to perform at the place they grew up playing little league, getting into mischief and even learning how to play rock and roll. H-Bomb Weck and Sonny Boy joined Weck's ol' Motor City friends, The Hunter Brucks Band on stage when he opened for classic rock hitmakers The Edgar Winter Group, Weck and Sonny Boy Terry didn't dissapoint with three high energy classic rock numbers including Smokin' in the Boys Room, Barefootin' and Train Train as the hometown folks cheered on the boys. Completely unrehearsed, H-Bomb, Hunter Brucks Band and Sonny Boy Terry rocked mightily to entertain family, friends and music lovers in a region that has been hit hard by the economy witha 16% unemployment rate. Great video footage forthcoming. 
