infirmity

[fflo]

I do love the classic Louis Armstrong version (runs behind this animation at youtube). That record, with a boost from Lily Tomlin's singing it on Saturday Night Live when I was 13 (with Harold Shore and his All-Nurse Orchestra), made it one of my very favorite songs in songdom, as it has remained. Today I give you this version:

  .mp3 --> "St. James Infirmary" - Snooks Eaglin

It can double as a kind of nod to what Shaky Jake might be said to have aimed for (his funeral is Sunday at Muehlig's), but I mean it more, in all its ambivalence & passion & surrender, for the dear sick, and sick in the heart.

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[(Anonymous)]

One of the greatest song ever. Have you heard the Jack Teagarden version
where he says it's one of the oldest records he ever heard?
Also see this discussion of the song http://bluespulse.com/public/index.php?Itemid=0&option=com_forum&page=viewtopic&t=204

[fflo.livejournal.com]

I haven't! Today I came across this guy's project around the song -- http://nonotes.wordpress.com/ .

I like that BlueDrag discussion person, Kelly. "I am Spartacus" and all.