CHARLIE McCOY – Precious Memories
What A Friend We Have In Jesus – The Old
Rugged Cross – Wayfaring Stranger – Don’t Worry Bout Nothin’ – In The
Garden – Just A Closer Walk With Thee – Precious Memories – I’ll Fly
Away – Peace In The Valley – I Love To Tell The Story – Amazing Grace –
Lord’s Prayer/Only Time For Love
Rugged Cross – Wayfaring Stranger – Don’t Worry Bout Nothin’ – In The
Garden – Just A Closer Walk With Thee – Precious Memories – I’ll Fly
Away – Peace In The Valley – I Love To Tell The Story – Amazing Grace –
Lord’s Prayer/Only Time For Love
Every time I introduce Charlie McCoy at a performance,
and there have been many times, I introduce him as the best harmonica
player on planet earth. I have yet to have anyone tell me otherwise.
Charlie is one of those magnificently gifted musical artists that paints
musical pictures with his instrument. If you’ve never heard Charlie
McCoy play harmonica, you have no idea what I am talking about. If you
have heard him play, you know immediately. He often refers to his
instrument as the French Harp. Actually the harmonica was a water
filled glass thing you played by rubbing your fingers across the rim.
The French Harp was the first instrument using reeds similar to an
accordion. Charlie McCoy likes to spend his free time in France, he
speaks French fluently, and when he performs in France, most often
Paris, you best be there early or you don’t get in. He rents a house in
France and spends his free time there. This brand new CD by him
reflects his reminisces as he rests. These songs he selected not only
‘fit’ our yuletide season, its brings us very very close to our Lord
Jesus Christ.
and there have been many times, I introduce him as the best harmonica
player on planet earth. I have yet to have anyone tell me otherwise.
Charlie is one of those magnificently gifted musical artists that paints
musical pictures with his instrument. If you’ve never heard Charlie
McCoy play harmonica, you have no idea what I am talking about. If you
have heard him play, you know immediately. He often refers to his
instrument as the French Harp. Actually the harmonica was a water
filled glass thing you played by rubbing your fingers across the rim.
The French Harp was the first instrument using reeds similar to an
accordion. Charlie McCoy likes to spend his free time in France, he
speaks French fluently, and when he performs in France, most often
Paris, you best be there early or you don’t get in. He rents a house in
France and spends his free time there. This brand new CD by him
reflects his reminisces as he rests. These songs he selected not only
‘fit’ our yuletide season, its brings us very very close to our Lord
Jesus Christ.
Charlie likes to play ‘cross-harp’ best, and he makes
it work so dramatically well. The first time I heard him do “I’m So
Lonesome I Could Cry” he stunned me with his ability to make each and
every note work so well for him, even though he was playing them
backwards. The same holds true on this remarkable album, especially
“Wayfaring Stranger.” He asked Lulu Roman to sing the lead. She’s
magnificent, just like him, what a totally beautiful gathering of
gifts. It is my sincere desire that Charlie nominate this lovely woman
for America’s Old Time Country Music Hall of Fame. He uses other
remarkable talents too; the Jordanaires, Laney Hicks, the Music City
Tonight Singers, and Wanda Vick, all of them adding their special gifts,
blending with Charlie’s French Harp.
it work so dramatically well. The first time I heard him do “I’m So
Lonesome I Could Cry” he stunned me with his ability to make each and
every note work so well for him, even though he was playing them
backwards. The same holds true on this remarkable album, especially
“Wayfaring Stranger.” He asked Lulu Roman to sing the lead. She’s
magnificent, just like him, what a totally beautiful gathering of
gifts. It is my sincere desire that Charlie nominate this lovely woman
for America’s Old Time Country Music Hall of Fame. He uses other
remarkable talents too; the Jordanaires, Laney Hicks, the Music City
Tonight Singers, and Wanda Vick, all of them adding their special gifts,
blending with Charlie’s French Harp.
Charlie has been living in Nashville for a very long
time, so he knows which studios to use, which backing musicians that
will do their very best, and on top of all that, you’ll find this “just
out” super CD on his own record label, Flying Harp Productions. If
you’ve been looking for that special Christmas gift, this is it. If you
like harmonica playing, you should not be without this one. If you
don’t like harmonica playing, this CD will change your mind.
time, so he knows which studios to use, which backing musicians that
will do their very best, and on top of all that, you’ll find this “just
out” super CD on his own record label, Flying Harp Productions. If
you’ve been looking for that special Christmas gift, this is it. If you
like harmonica playing, you should not be without this one. If you
don’t like harmonica playing, this CD will change your mind.
Bob Everhart, Reviewer