For the African American blues musician, see Papa Charlie McCoy. African Americans, also known as Afro-Americans or black Americans, are an ethnic group in the United States of America whose ancestors, usually in predominant part, were indigenous to Sub-Saharan and West Africa. ... Blues is a vocal and instrumental musical form which evolved from African American spirituals, shouts, work songs and chants and has its earliest stylistic roots in West Africa. ... A musician is a person who plays or composes music. ...

Charlie McCoy (born March 28, 1941 in Oak Hill, West Virginia is an American musician noted for his harmonica playing. March 28 is the 87th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (88th in Leap years). ... 1941 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... State nickname: Mountain State Other U.S. States Capital Charleston Largest city Charleston Governor Joe Manchin Official languages None Area 62,809 km² (41st)  - Land 62,436 km²  - Water 376 km² (0. ... A harmonica A harmonica is a free reed musical wind instrument (also known, among other things, as a mouth organ, french harp, simply harp, or Mississippi saxophone), having multiple, variably-tuned brass or bronze reeds, each secured at one end over an airway slot of like dimension into which it...

Born, Charles Ray McCoy, his family left West Virginia when he was a boy to live in Miami, Florida. At age eight, he began playing the harmonica, developing his skills to where he decided to pursue a career in music. In 1959, the eighteen-year-old McCoy moved to Nashville, Tennessee, the country music capital of the world. Unable to find much work as a session player, he returned home but refused to give up on his dream and enrolled in courses on musical theory while taking vocal lessons. His determination paid off when he was given a chance by Monument Records to play the harmonica on the 1961 Roy Orbison recording of "Candy Man." The song opens with a harmonica riff and is an integral part of the musical production. As a result of this successful collaboration, the door was opened wide for McCoy and he went on to work as a sessions player for some of the other big names in music including Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, and Paul Simon. The Miami skyline, as it is seen from the northeast. ... For other cities named Nashville, see Nashville (disambiguation). ... Monument Records was a record label founded in 1958 by Fred Foster. ... Roy Orbison was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987. ... Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977), also known as The King of Rock and Roll, or as just simply The King, was an American singer who had an immeasurable effect on world culture. ... Portrait photograph of Bob Dylan taken by Daniel Kramer Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman May 24, 1941, Duluth, Minnesota, USA) is widely regarded as one of Americas greatest popular songwriters. ... Johnny Cash (February 26, 1932 – September 12, 2003) was an American country music singer and songwriter, known to his fans as The Man in Black, and a member of the outlaw country movement. ... Paul Frederic Simon (born October 13, 1941 in Newark, New Jersey) is a renowned Jewish American songwriter, receiving Kennedy Center Honors in 2002. ...

As well as his hamonica playing, McCoy is also proficient on the guitar, bass, keyboards, and drums plus on several wind and brass instruments. In addition to his studio work, for 19 years McCoy worked as music director for the popular television show, Hee Haw. As well, he has sung and played on more than two dozen record albums of his own and in 1973 won the Grammy Award for Best Country Instrumental Performance for his album, "Charlie McCoy/The Real McCoy." Hee Haw was a long-running television variety show hosted by Buck Owens and Roy Clark and featuring country music and humor with rural Kornfield Kounty as a backdrop. ... An album (from Latin albus white, blank, relating to a blank book in which something can be inserted) is a packaged collection of related things. ... The Grammy Award for Best Country Instrumental Performance was first awarded in 1970. ...

Charlie McCoy has an international reputation and over the years has developed a strong following in Japan and Europe where he tours on a regular basis. World map showing location of Europe A satellite composite image of Europe Europe is geologically and geographically a peninsula, forming the westernmost part of Eurasia. ...