Lesley Riddle

African-American singer, guitarist, and pianist, born 1905 in Burnsville, North Carolina, died 1980. In the 1920s played in stringbands in the tri-cities area (Kingsport, Johnson City and Bristol) on the Virginia/Tennessee border, met A.P. Carter in the late 1920s, for several years joined Carter on trips to find new songs for the Carter Family. Moved to Rochester, New York, in 1942, and gave up music in 1945. In the 1960s sought out by Mike Seeger, who persuaded him to resume playing.