Re: [Harp-L] SPAH

[jeffrey baker <acornfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Theres not a lot of harp being played (in country music) these days in Nash-Vagas .
Sad but true .

    JB

On Aug 20, 2013, at 6:15 PM, Mick Zaklan <mzaklan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>   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