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Biography

Ossining, New York NY, United States (1940 – 1994)

Sonny Sharrock (Warren Harding Sharrock; August 27, 1940–May 25, 1994) was an American jazz guitarist. He was once married to singer Linda Sharrock, with whom he sometimes recorded and performed.

One of few guitarists in the first wave of free jazz in the 1960s, Sharrock was known for his incisive, heavily chorded attack, his bursts of wild feedback, and for his use of saxophone-like lines played loudly on guitar. He had in fact wanted to play tenor saxophone from his youth after hearing John Coltrane play on Miles Davis’ album Kind of Blue on the radio at age 19, but his asthma prohibited it.

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2	Promises Kept	27
3	Many Mansions	26
4	Little Rock	25
5	As We Used To Sing	23
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6	Black Woman	22
8	Blind Willy	12
9	Blind Willie	10
9	Peanut	10
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12	Portrait of Linda in Three Colors, All Black	8
13	Hit Single	4
13	Kula-Mae	4
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