[Harp-L] Harmonica in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

[Mikael Bäckman]

I doubt that it's Willie Watson himself, I've never heard him play that clean...

Yeah right, the guitar player didn't need a count....


/ M


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Coincidentally, I just saw the movie for the first time this past week and was wondering the same thing.

I don't have a definitive answer, but I think the player might be Willie Watson, whom I don't know anything about (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Watson_(musician)).
Willie Watson (musician)<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Watson_(musician)>
en.wikipedia.org
Willie Watson, born September 23, 1979 in Watkins Glen, New York and raised in Upstate New York around Ithaca, is a singer-songwriter, guitarist, banjo...



BTW, in the first film in the anthology, I though it was very cool that it was a harp player who ultimately bested the guitar player.


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From: Mikael Bäckman via Harp-L <harp-l at xxxxx>
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Subject: [Harp-L] Harmonica in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

Hi List!

Does anyone know who plays harmonica in the song that Willie Watson sings in the end of the first episode of the Coen Brothers film "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs"? It is a really well played and tasteful country-styled diatonic.


/ Mikael Backman