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kudzurunner
6105 posts
Dec 09, 2016
12:50 PM
I recently came across a cassette that I recorded when I was visiting Nat Riddles down in Norfolk, Va. in the late fall of 1986, about a month after I'd started playing with Mr. Satan in Harlem. I've converted 10 minutes of it into a video.

It's the opposite of a polished performance, and that, to me, is its value. It's just three musicians lazing around somebody's livingroom, sharing songs and--in my case--harps. I'd loaned my chromatic harp to Nat and he used it to play "St. James Infirmary." I think you'll hear why I admired his vibrato.

There's some conversation after the song. He talks about his debt to Louis Armstrong's version. Nat's positive energy is also very much in evidence. And of course when I start to talk--well, this is me 30 years ago.

The guitarist/singer is named Jory; I have no idea what his last name was. I recorded this on a Sony Walkman Professional and the sound quality is a lot better than the Nat Riddles album, thanks in part to my new Ion cassette deck and the tape-to-WAV conversion software.

Last Edited by kudzurunner on Dec 09, 2016 12:53 PM
6SN7
678 posts
Dec 10, 2016
5:43 AM
i enjoyed listening to that, I'm an infant on the chro and I picked mine up and "gussed" along, and was able to pick up some cool licks and ideas. pretty cool!


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