Nat Riddles | Sonny Boy's Jump

"Sonny Boy's Jump" by Nat Riddles, released on the record "New York Really Has the Blues, Vol. 2" in 1981 on the Spivey label (Spivey LP 1026).

Like many other Spivey records this LP is also out of print and hard to find. I got hold of a copy that was alright and I digitized it. So that's why I can share with this great recording of Nat Riddles' version of this Sonny Boy (John Lee) Williamson song.

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[tbonewalk]

this is great! I will never forget being on my first gig with Good Rockin' Marty Finch at the Mill's Tavern on Bleeker Street, Greenwich Village, NYC; I would say it was 1978. It was the first time I met Nat; he and Marty were tight and he was always welcome to play. I did my best to back up Nat. I'll never forget that and no one can take that away from me. He is playing and singing great on this one! Is it Andy, Horace and Charles behind Nat?

[SwampBluesTed]

Thank you for sharing these memories! This track features in any event Horace Evans, Charles Otis and most likely Andy Story. The cover text isn't very clear about the last one though. You have to read between the lines. I also don't think Larry Johnson joint in.

[KudzuRunner]

It's great to have Nat's distinctive harmonica stylings available on YouTube. This recording was made 4 years before I first became his student. Here, he's reanimating the country-jump style of Sonny Boy I, a.k.a., John Lee Williamson, NOT the better-known Rice Miller. What I hear is his remarkably loud, clattering tongue-blocked attack combined with very subtle timing shifts, ahead and behind the beat, that gave his playing an amazing amount of life or "kick." A great model!

[MrDannydo]

lately been overwhelmed with daily life let onlt all the jam tracks i need to buy to keep my playing going, uhm just go to gussows favorites!!!! problemed solved!!!!

[MrDannydo]

@SwampBluesTed hey ted sorry hav'nt got in touch lately been swamped man.

[ruotze]

Fine stuff goin on here !!

[afonsomario]

Excelente meu novo amigo.

Parabéns!! 5*

[Tadek59]

Interesting video and great blues !

5*****

[TheCoolBlues]

Cool!!! thx my friend *****, *:))

[berrasvideo]

Very good,I love blues 5*****

Your friend in Sweden

Bertil

[ljb2492]

Sounds nice and happy. I'm reading Mr Satan's Apprentice right now!