[Harp-L] SPAH

[Mick Zaklan <mzaklan@xxxxxxxxx>]

   I think I've seen Charlie McCoy at 3 or 4 SPAH conventions and also at
the 1990 Dixie Fest Harmonica Convention.  That was probably the best I
remember hearing him.  And a lot of credit goes Jim Hoke, the
multi-instrumentalist who did a bunch of the soloing.  I remember
seeing Jim's name in an old Easy Reeder issue decades ago.  He was
mentioned as a guy who could play in a number of keys on a
single diatonic.  Charlie announced that he had made a deal with Jim to NOT
play harmonica during the set.  But Jim's steel guitar, tin whistle,
keyboard, sax and flute work was superb.
   I don't know who was left in Nashville to play harmonica.  We had
Jellyroll Johnson, P.T. Gazelle, Mike Caldwell, Charlie McCoy, Buddy
Greene, Jim Hoke, and Lonnie Joe Howell at our convention.

Mick Zaklan