Another shaky handheld video clip (RealVideo, 6.5MB) from the Country Dream jamboree last weekend. I thought I’d seen some good harmonica players, but I’ll probably never see anyone approaching the skill of Charlie McCoy, who didn’t miss a note all night as far as I could tell. You don’t get into the Smithsonian collection by faking it. He has been coming to Kyoto for years as a guest of Kenji Nagatomi. Here he is playing the classic bluegrass railroad tune “Orange Blossom Special” at maximum velocity, swapping two harps and trading verses with an equally fast fiddler going only by the name “Haruka.”
