[Harp-L] Victoria Spivey-Spivey records-Bob Dylan

[dennis moriarty <dmoriarty@xxxxxxxxxx>]

          The first time I met Victoria was in the dressing rooms  
behind the stage of the "Bottom Line" in NYC. She was sitting with  
Muddy Waters and asking me for some "sugar" and Muddy feeling sorry  
for me not understanding her request  told me she was looking for a  
kiss. I think this was the same show Muddy called up Paul Oscher,  
Danny Russo, and Dylan. Relative to the other players (I think Portnoy  
was his regular for that show too) Dylan galvanized the audience more  
with his personality than his playing per se. The bulk of the Spivey  
catalogue was the contemporary blues community of the time in NYC and  
that meant a lot of terrific harp players: Danny Russo, Nat Riddles,  
Bill Dicey, Paul Oscher, Sugar Blue, etc, and guitarist-singers like:  
Louisiana Red, and Larry Johnson, etc. I remember sitting in with her  
when I was 18: She was very generous, and very color blind. The George  
Smith inclusion of her album catalogue was entitled something like  
"The men of the Muddy Water's band".  My best. d
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