Here's a little more to whet your appetite, excerpted from the tape:

His performances are well documented by many eye witnesses. While he himself always claimed that his unique virtuosity was rooted in his early experiences, when, before he lost his left arm in the first world war, he had performed regularly as a one-man band on an almost incredible combination of instruments.

Here he is talking about it to Otis Regrets, who recorded this conversation with him in a Dallas speakeasy, in August 1952, when researching his classic study: The Emigre Hibernian Bluesmen.

Incidentally, the pianist you can hear in the background has been variously identified as "Two Finger Johnson", "Three Finger Schenectady Ted", or "Four Finger Amos K. Gonzales", all of whom were playing in Dallas at that time. A fact which makes one understand why the Basque mutant, Gaston Pichegru (sp?), who had seven fingers on each hand, was generally regarded as the most formidably equipped musician of them all, and was the envy of his colleagues.

McGee: Oh yes, son, I always played any number of instruments from when ah was a little, little, bitty, wee boy, wee boy. Yes, I tell you son, I used to play the one man band in Glasgow sometimes fifteen hours a day. Sometimes fifteen hours a night."

Regrets: Well, what did you play? Drums? Cymbals? Trumpet? That sort of thing?

McGee: Drums, cymbals, trumpet, by god son, all of them. And the double bass, and your mouth organ, your concertina, your jew's harp, all throwed in together, ooohh, son, ah made a hell of a noise!