DATE: Wed, 01 Jun 1994 09:22:14 CDT From: Ted Allbritton Subject: Re: Old Grey Whistle/Charley McCoy
While you guys are talkin' Charley McCoy, I just wanted to tell how, when I was a teenager, long, long ago (about 66) I used to go to a dance club in Shelbyville, TN-the Cellar (yes, in a cellar) where Charley McCoy and the Escorts used to play sometimes on Saturday night. Believe it or not, he never played harmonica. He sang some, and played bass and trumpet, get this-sometimes at the same time. He turned the bass up loud and fretted the bass notes while wailing on that trumpet! They were the best band ever to play that club (a soul star, Robert ?, I can't remember, sometimes came with them. He had one hit I know of: Everlasting Love). Anyway, I remember the house would be packed when they were there-at least a half dozen fights in the parking lot, plus other choice teenage attractions in the back seats of Chevelle's and 57's, etc. Across town, in another teen dance club, the Carosel, about the same time, I once saw the great Jerry Lee. He must have been really down and out to have to play that dive. BTW, the Foxchase is something of a standard at Fiddler's conventions/Bluegrass, Ole Time festivals, etc.
