grahamonica
65 posts
Sep 11, 2013
7:13 AM
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Great advice from Charlie McCoy.
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Kingley
3124 posts
Sep 11, 2013
10:31 PM
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Charlie is a real legend and he imparts some really useful information.
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rbeetsme
1354 posts
Sep 12, 2013
5:42 AM
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I heard Charlie at a seminar a few years back. I see he is still using the $8.00 Walmart parts bin plastic to store his harps. Cheap harp case.
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hooktool
80 posts
Sep 12, 2013
7:51 PM
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Charlie is a good friend of my father-in-law, so we see him once in a while. He played at a Picadilly Cafeteria with Barefoot Jerry last year-just to get together with them and play for friends-he's no dive. LOL
The local alternative paper had just run a story that week about Dylan's Nashville Skyline, and the story of Charlie producing it and I talked to him about that some. He said that he had not been in a recording studio in several years-they just email him files and he does his part and sends it back.
Charlie McCoy and the Escorts were the hot band for teenagers in the 60's if one lived here in Nashville,
John
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groyster1
2381 posts
Sep 13, 2013
3:43 PM
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he played guitar back then and played blues?and also vocals?but decided he had a better future playing harp..........he did allright
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sonny3
32 posts
Sep 13, 2013
4:49 PM
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I heard Charlie played bass and Trumpet at the same time for dylans blonde on blonde album.DYlan didn't like to overdub.Great musician.
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hooktool
81 posts
Sep 13, 2013
5:39 PM
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Basically, he can and has played anything-including the trumpet as sonny pointed out. Back in his band days it was mostly keyboards and harp.
He's a huge ice hockey fan BTW, so if you run into him and want to talk a bit, he'll go for that.
John
Last Edited by hooktool on Sep 13, 2013 5:39 PM
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Calvin
28 posts
Sep 14, 2013
5:42 AM
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Great interview. Thanks for posting!
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Thievin' Heathen
246 posts
Sep 14, 2013
8:13 AM
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Once, when I was about 15, I was walking around the house jamming & practicing and something came out of my harp that sounded like a Charlie McCoy lick. I remember thinking, "Hot Damn!! That sounded like Charlie McCoy". 35 years later I am starting to think I might have to accept it was a 1 time thing.
He certainly is down to earth and accessible, quick to share his stories of Nashville without ever a hint of his realizing how big a deal American Country Music is and his part in making it so.
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