timeistight
1341 posts
Sep 03, 2013
11:25 AM
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What do these recordings have in common?
Last Edited by timeistight on Sep 03, 2013 11:27 AM
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1847
1036 posts
Sep 03, 2013
11:32 AM
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wild guess charlie mc coy
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master po
i get a lot of request when i play my harmonica
"but i play it anyway"
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Kingley
3099 posts
Sep 03, 2013
11:34 AM
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I agree with 1847. Charlie McCoy played on all of them and they were all recorded in Nashville too I think.
Last Edited by Kingley on Sep 03, 2013 11:38 AM
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timeistight
1343 posts
Sep 03, 2013
11:51 AM
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Yes, it's Charlie McCoy. Just a few the 12,000 sessions in his career.
I think The Boxer was recorded in New York. The rest of them were probably Nashville.
Last Edited by timeistight on Sep 03, 2013 11:52 AM
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Grey Owl
293 posts
Sep 03, 2013
11:53 AM
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What a great song 'The Boxer' is.
Here is an interesting comment about the instrumentation:-
'The odd, choppy, boing-boing sound you hear in the background on Simon
& Garfunkel?s tune ?The Boxer? is not the result of some mysterious
unknown instrument. The sound is actually generated by a clever chorus
of instruments working together, namely guitars (played by Paul Simon
& Fred Carter Jr.), a dobro (played by Peter Drake) and most
importantly, a bass harmonica (played by Charlie McCoy, one of the
greatest Country music ?session? harmonica players in existence).
A bass harmonica (or bass harp) is big and has two rows of holes
instead of one. It looks like two large harmonicas stacked on top of
one another. It produces a very unique sound because of the resonance
between the two octaves (not unlike a 12 string guitar) and it is, in
effect, more than one instrument ? a harmonica capable of accompanying
itself.'
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Baker
318 posts
Sep 04, 2013
2:01 AM
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