Bb
6 posts
May 14, 2008
9:29 AM
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I downloaded the Nat Riddles recording this morning.
It's fantastic.I'm gobsmacked by his playing and the sound really puts you on the street right there with him and Charlie Hilbert.
Plus, I'm just gonna rip-off so many tasty licks off of this.
Wheeee!
It's a great $10 spent.
Thanks for sharing, Adam.
-Bob
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metalosaurio
5 posts
May 14, 2008
9:56 AM
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the same here. it's great! the best $10 spended in many years. It's 2 and a half hour master class.
thanks Adam for sharing this.
regards,
Nicolas
Last Edited by on May 14, 2008 2:41 PM
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MN
Guest
May 14, 2008
12:22 PM
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Can one of you explain to a total tech idiot how to download that and put the track on my iPod?
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Bb
7 posts
May 14, 2008
12:30 PM
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Ok. I'm a bit of a Luddite myself, but here's how I did it:
When you pay for the file it will be delivered as a "zipped" file. Download this to your desktop. Open the file, where you will see all the individual mp3 files. Grab all of them and drag them into your music "Library" in iTunes. Once they are in there, simply sync to your iPod.
Hope this helps. You need to have these.
-Bob
Last Edited by on May 14, 2008 2:52 PM
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kudzurunner
48 posts
May 14, 2008
6:33 PM
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I'm glad you guys are enjoying them. I'll confess that I didn't do an optimal job on the transfer from analog (cassette tapes) to digital. I didn't know about the Garage Band app on my MacBook, so I used a little Olympus voice recorder and it didn't have an input level control.
The result is, they're pretty close to (and sometimes over) redline.
Then when I converted the Garage Band files to mp3s, I converted them at the bitrate that somebody had decided was a good compromise on the YouTube audio tracks: 64 kb/s. This is half the sampling rate of 128 which is the industry standard for mp3s. (Jason Ricci's next to last album came as 128s when I downloaded it from iTunes.)
The result is....powerful, but maybe rawer than it needed to be. Street blues is one of the few places in this culture where this sort of thing ends up working anyway--and Nat's playing and the whole street ambience is fantastic.
But I've learned a whole lot since then, and the new Satan and Adam album reflects that.
What I'm trying to say is that somewhere down the line, I've decided to go back and remaster the whole Nat Riddles album.
When I do, I will give EVERYBODY who purchased it a chance to download the remastered version for free.
Just wanted to be honest about all this. I wanted to put Nat out there at his best; I got the job mostly done, but I'm a perfectionist and I promise you'll have....even more perfection somewhere down the line.
--Adam
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Bb
8 posts
May 14, 2008
7:03 PM
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Well, I'm still glad I got it today. But, I'll certainly come back for an even tastier free second helping.
-Bob
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thorvaldsen76
15 posts
May 15, 2008
2:34 PM
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I totally agree with you,guys! Nat was just fantastic,and he's my favourite player. Sure,I really dig guys like SBW,Little Walter and harp-doctor Gussow,too. But to me Nat is nr 1. When I turn up my mp3-player and close my eyes,it's almost like being there myself. With the background noise,people and even a police-car or two. Killer stuff:)
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metalosaurio
9 posts
May 21, 2008
8:41 AM
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Thanks Adam, it would be great to have the Nat Riddles album with the same quality as Word on the Street. I've been listen the Word on the Street album during this week, and it's great, you can imagine yourself between the crowd, besides it's a great jamming album.
regards,
Nicolas
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FreeWilly
2 posts
Aug 19, 2011
5:39 AM
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This is a message I hope Mr. Gussow will read and respond to. Doesn't seem appropriate to write an Email directly, because I can imagine You'll be getting a lot of E-mail traffic if nobody uses this forum for such a thing.
Anyway. I just read in a Youtube post that You have a tape with Nat Riddles and Sterling Magee. I would looooove to be able to buy these via tradebit as I did with the other Nat Stuff (and some other stuff). Any change of that happening?
And while I'm at it. Did You ever manage to re-do the ElCafeStreet tapes to a higher resolution?
Now that I do kind of address you personally. Thanks for everything man. You make me live the dream of producing the sound that haunted me all my youth everytime I want. It's such a great gift - I really don't know how to thank You for it.. Funny how you went from 'the guy with the funny shirt's that bounces through the screen' to 'the guy with the great sounding harp' to an accompanyment (is that a word?) for so many hours of harp related soulwax.
Thank you!
Last Edited by on Aug 19, 2011 5:42 AM
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groyster1
1290 posts
Aug 19, 2011
6:34 AM
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thanks adam for the offer on a remastered live@ el cafe you introduced me to an incredible blues musician in nat riddles I appreciate all you have done for blues harp enthusiasts
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kudzurunner
2653 posts
Aug 19, 2011
6:57 AM
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@FreeWilly:
The Nat Riddles / Sterling Magee throwdown is a free download:
http://www.tradebit.com/filedetail.php/1968039-satan-and-nat-mp3
More than 1500 people have downloaded it, I"m happy to say. Enjoy! And thanks for your kind words. I'm just passing along the inspiration that others offered me.
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FreeWilly
5 posts
Aug 19, 2011
7:31 AM
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O Wow! Cool!
Another token of your generosity ;) Thanks mister teacher!
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groyster1
1293 posts
Aug 19, 2011
11:12 AM
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I just downloaded nat riddles/sterling magee throwdown its great thank you so much
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