I met Sonny after (Blind Boy) Fuller died, and me and Sonny played in the streets like everybody else.

He appeared in a 1988 episode of "Family Ties" titled "The Blues Brother" in which he played fictional blues musician Eddie Dupre as well as a 1989 episode of Matlock entitled "The Blues Singer. B. " By that time McGhee was recording for Columbia's subsidiary Okeh Records in Chicago but his real success came after he moved to New York in 1942 when he teamed up with Sonny Terry whom he had known since 1939 when Sonny was Blind Boy Fuller's harmonica player.

Walter Brown ("Brownie") McGhee (November 30 1915 - February 16 1996) was a Piedmont blues singer and guitarist best known for his collaborations with the harmonica player Sonny Terry.