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Thread #59599   Message #1480042
Posted By: Richard Bridge
07-May-05 - 11:34 AM
Thread Name: Obit: Jacqueline (Jacqui) Walker (11 May 2003)
Subject: RE: Obit: Jacqueline (Jacqui) Walker (11 May 2003)
She semed to have no faith in her own songs - sort of "noble stag beset by hounds at crag". I may have some words, but she never played them and I don't know the tunes.

She largely stopped playing for quite a while.

The only recording I know of was done about 8-10 years ago of her, and me, (and some bits of Rachel, our daughter, then 13-15) at a friend's bedroom studio in Edgeware. It's pretty dire! The only copies I have are on cassette tape and the masters were on ceramic cassette and no longer exist. Also, by then, her top range had been lost to the tobacco, so there was no upper register, and she had had bronchitus that summer so everything was re-set down a tone (which sure wrecked some of my lines!). She did conceptualise some great harmony, however, but for the last few years she had so much trouble with her breathing that it was a standard joke that all of our songs were in the key of J mobile...

I think the best part of our musical performances were her fiery recorder lines - quite unlike any other recorder player I ever heard, no polite "toot toot" about it at all.