badman
3 posts
Jun 03, 2010
8:08 PM
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Wow just purchased the Nat Riddle album, talk about fantastic!
Thanks Adam for collecting this, truly a must have for the Harmonica aficionado. This has moved to the top of my iPhone playlist.
A quick side note. Is there a search feature for these forums? maybe I'm just dim but I can't seem to find one. Being the webmaster of my own site with forums I Hate to start a new topic that must have been brought up before with out reading all the forums pages...
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GermanHarpist
1512 posts
Jun 03, 2010
8:19 PM
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Don't worry about bringing up old topics, the dynamics of the forum kind of forces you to.
There are two ways of checking out past threads:
There is a forum search on the left in the contents. However, it isn't really the best search. Especially because the search results aren't sorted in any way (random in time), often there are useless results, etc..
For that reason I developed some kind of advanced search with the extra function of giving you the last 10 threads (sorted in time).
Advanced Forum Search
Then you may want to check out the forum archive (also linked in the content bar on the left). However it wasn't updated for quite a while and I'd say after three months the community wisdom is already outdated... so it isn't really that useful either...
So,... just start new threads and don't worry if it was already discussed before... that's the way this forum works.. :)
Btw.: I have to agree with you regarding Nat's recordings. He's definitely one of my favorite blues players, if not my favorite...
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badman
4 posts
Jun 03, 2010
8:25 PM
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Hey thanks GH. Guess I didn't look down far enuf on the left side pane. Appreciate it!
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nacoran
1992 posts
Jun 03, 2010
8:39 PM
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Badman- And the worst part is you'll find the thread where Adam ran a special where you could get the album for $1. Great album.
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CMo
32 posts
Jun 04, 2010
6:54 AM
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Just bought it myself and it is superb! Really enjoying it!
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JTThirty
69 posts
Jun 04, 2010
7:18 AM
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Agreed! Nat Riddles certainly had it all going on as a blues harp player. I've got a short review of sorts over at www.bushdogblues.blogspot.com, so I won't repeat my assessment of Nat's huge talent here.
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Tryharp
333 posts
Jun 04, 2010
7:48 AM
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Nice write up JT30
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badman
5 posts
Jun 04, 2010
7:38 PM
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Sure it would have been nice to get it for a $1 but I have no problem paying full price for it. Its still a bargain. I've already started learning from this site and want to support it any way I can.
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captainbliss
163 posts
Jun 16, 2010
4:07 AM
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/Nat Riddle album WOW/
WOW and YEAH!
El Cafe Street is one of my favourite blues albums, for sure.
I could wax lyrical about Nat Riddles' playing for hours.
Restraint!
Although...
One of my favourite things about great performers is how they can weave chatting amicably and amusingly to their audience seamlessly into delivering the song with 100% commitment.
And let's not forget Charlie Hibbert's endlessly interesting, wonderfully sympathetic support playing.
A thought:
Adam mentions (in another thread) that the blues is (or can be?) about holding two contradictory ideas simultaneously. For me, Nat Riddles does this, managing somehow to be deadly serious about the song but also seems to be on the verge of making a big joke of it all.
Watching Rice Miller videos on YouTube, I get the same feeling.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that with both NR and RM, it's all right on some kind edge where it could, at any time, go either way, making me laugh or making me cry.
Basically, it feels like they've got me opened up to and in the palm of their hand...
Does that make any sense?
(As a side note, I find it really interesting how (to my ear, anyway) Adam's playing sounds nothing like his harmonica mentor's at all.
Guess that's what you call good mentoring?!)
xxx
EDIT: changed & to % because I'm like that.
Last Edited by on Jun 16, 2010 4:08 AM
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