[Harp-L] RE: SPAH

[Patrice Rayon <stpat95@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I thought exactly the same all during the concert... Jim Hoke is absolutely a Fabulous musician !
The wife the Charly McCoy answered me the same: that he is also a good harmonica player when I mentionned that to her

I have been very happy as well to find so many great players and actors of the harmonica there, that I used to see on YouTube, Internet, in magazines... but being able to Jam with them, see them playing for real, exchange together about the instrument etc... 
Yes ! Coming from far away for such experience is not such a great effort regarding all the souvenirs, and the made contacts. 

Patrice
http://www.harmonicacontact.com/

> Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 17:15:44 -0500
> From: 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