Dr. John Again — with Clapton
May 2, 2006 by nonotes
In an earlier post about Dr. John, I mentioned that I’d heard tell of a live version of him and Eric Clapton performing “St. James Infirmary” as a duet. The other day, in looking around for information about the Oingo Boingo version, I learned that there’s a video of that Clapton/D.r John performance on YouTube.
Basically, I’m not a fan of anything Eric Clapton has done in the last, I don’t know, 20 or 30 years. But if you’re into that sort of thing, there is in fact a humongous (and totally sterile) guitar solo or two, plus Slowhand (bloodlessly) sings several verses.
Also, it’s really long.
Enjoy!
A couple of years ago I did some research into the song "St. James Infirmary," wrote up what I found, emailed that essay to friends and posted it on my web site (as part of a series of "Letters From New Orleans," as I was living in that city at the time). Based on the feedback, I wrote a second version of the essay, and asked for more feedback. Based on that, I wrote a 
