Sonny Boy Williamson
Blues singer
Harmonicist
Songwriter
March 30, 1914 – June 1,
1948
Credits:
Music:
A Portrait in Blues
(1963); Baby Let Me Come Back Home / November Boogie / All Nite Boogie / Leavin
Blues (1966); Blues Classics by The Original Sonny Boy Williamson (1965); Born
Blind / Ninety-Nine (1958); Bring It On Home / Down Child (1965); Bummer Road
(1969); Bye Bye Bird / Help Me (1963); Come On Back Home / Stop Crying (1951);
Cool, Cool Blues / Do It if You Wanta (1951); Crazy ‘Bout You, Baby / Eyesight
to the Blind (1951); Cross My Heart / Dissatisfied (1958); Don’t Send Me No
Flowers (1968); Don’t Start Me Talkin’/ All My Love in Vain (1955); Down and
Out Blues (1959); Empty Bedroom / From the Bottom (1955); Fattening Frogs for
Snakes / I Don’t Know (1957); From the Bottom / Empty Bedroom; Gettin’ Out of
Town / She Brought Life Back to the Dead (1954); Going in Your Direction / Red
Hot Kisses (1954); I Cross My Heart / West Memphis Blues (1954); In Memoriam
(1965); Keep It to Yourself / The Key (To Your Door) (1956); King Biscuit Time
(1989); Let Me Explain / Your Imagination (1956); Let Your Conscience Be Your
Guide / Unseeing Eye (1959); Mighty Long Time / Nine Below Zero (1951); More
Real Folk Blues (1966); Mr. Downchild / Stop Now Baby (1954); My Younger Days /
I Want You Close to Me (1964); No Nights by Myself / Boppin’ with Sonny (1956);
One Way Out / Nine Below Zero (1962); Pontiac Blues / Sonny Boy’s Christmas
Blues (1951); Rock Generation Vol. 4 with the Animals (1973); Sonny Boy
Williamson and Memphis Slim (1964); Sonny Boy Williamson and the Yardbirds
(1966); Stop Right Now / The Hunt (1961); Temperature 110 / Lonesome Cabin
(1960); The Blues of Sonny Boy Williamson (1963); The Goat / It’s Sad to Be
Alone (1960); The Hunt / Little Village (1961); The Real Folk Blues (1966);
This Is My Story (1972); Too Close Together / Cat Hop (1953); Trust My Baby /
Too Close Together (1960); Trying to Get Back on My Feet / Decoration Day
(1963); Your Funeral and My Trial / Wake Up Baby (1958).
Movies and television:
Af
jazzens billedbog (1963); Almost Famous (2000); American Gangster (2007); American
Made (2017); Animal House of Blues: 33.3 Special Edition (2018); Arena (1985); Barfly
(1987); Blues Brothers 2000 (1998); Blues Odyssey (2003); Bluesland: A Portrait
in American Music (1993); Charming the Hearts of Men (2021); Deadwood (2004); Dogfight
(1991); Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars (2017); Frogs for Snakes (1998); Fuel
(2008); Godfather of Harlem (2019); Green Book (2018); Groupies (1970); Homicide:
Life on the Street (1994); Hullabaloo! (1963–1964); Jane B. for Agnes V. (1988);
Johnny Winter And: Live in Copenhagen (1971); Jonny Lang Live at Montreux 1999
(1999); Listening to You: The Who at the Isle of Wight 1970 (1998); Long John
Baldry: In the Shadow of the Blues (2000); Long Strange Trip (2017); Lords of
Dogtown (2005); Mae Mercer & Sonny Boy Williamson: Careless Love (1965); Mulholland
Drive (2001); My Kinda People (2003); Mysteries of the Abandoned: Hidden
America (2023); On Any Saturday (2006); Once Were Brothers (2019); Private
Practice (2007); Ready, Steady, Go! (1965); Secondhand Lions (2003); Tempo (1964);
The American Folk Blues Festival 1962-1966 - Volume 1 (2003); The American Folk
Blues Festival 1962-1966 - Volume 2 (2003); The Beat Room (1964); The Blues
(2003); The Departed (2006); The Dukes of Hazzard (2005); The Ed Sullivan Show (1950);
The Fall (2013); The Funeral (1996); The Howlin' Wolf Story (2003); The Who:
The Making of Tommy (2013); Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (1995); Tommy
(1975); Wetlands Preserved: The Story of an Activist Nightclub (2008); Where
Has Poor Mickey Gone? (1964); Who Shot Pat? (1989).
