Photopaintings (22 of 23)

My Friend Sonny


Title: "My Friend Sonny"

Blues Artist: Sonny Terry

Size: 7' wide, 5' deep, and 8' high

This is Bill Blizard's installation memorializing Sonny Terry as it was presented in the Bassett Gallery of The Fine Art Center of Kershaw County, Camden South Carolina in Bill's one-man-show of October, 2002. You could have seen this installation at the Charleston Main Library during the Lowcountry Blues Bash February 6-15, 2004.

The title of the work, "My Friend Sonny" refers to the fact that Blizard and Terry were good friends for over twenty-five years.

Interested in reading Sonny's biography? Click here...