Fwd: RE: [Harp-L] Blazing fast Country chops

["Winslow Yerxa" <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx>]

Actually, McCoy seems to have come to country-tuned instruments 
rather gradually. Before that, he would use, say, an A-harp in E, and 
an E-harp where he needed a D# or a B major chord. A fan heard this 
and told him "I know how you do that - you tune Draw 5 up a 
semitone!" That fan didn't know he'd just invented country tuning; 
Charlie took the idea and put it to good use.

Looking at the discography in chronological order starting with the 
first 1967 album, country tuning doesn't make an appearance until the 
10th album, Harpin' the Blues, in 1975, for just one tune. It doesn't 
come back until the 12th album, 1977's Country Cookin, where it 
appears on 4 tunes. It appears again for three tunes on 1986's One 
for the Road.

This information comes for Charlie himself. Mind you, I notice he 
forgot to include the bass harmonica he played on Orange Blossom 
Special so maybe he forgot some of the times he used country tuning.

It may be that Charlie is using it more and more, but it appears that 
for a huge chunk of his solo recording career it was just a 
occasional player along with chromatics and occasional half-valved 
harps, while his main axe appears to have been the standard 10-hole.

Winslow

--- In harp-l-archives@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Smith, Richard" 
<rismith@xxxx> wrote:

I checked out this website.
If the information shown there is true, then it looks like
Charlie McCoy uses "Country-Tuned" harmonicas a lot.

Richard J. Smith, R.A.
rismith@xxxx


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