On the way: Aaron Neville/Dr. John Version?
January 22, 2008 by nonotes
The Times Picayune has a piece about Aaron Neville — coming through a difficult year after his wife passed away — collaborating with Dr. John. Apparently they’ve been recording together sporadically in Nashville, which is where Neville lives these days. So far, the piece says, the recordings have had Neville on vocals, with Dr. John sticking to piano.
Their focus is songs “from way back,” Neville says. From the New Orleans repertoire, they’ve borrowed Johnny Adams’ “I Won’t Cry,” the Spiders’ “Bells In My Heart” and the traditional “St. James Infirmary.” They may revisit the Allen Toussaint composition “All These Things,” which Aaron’s older brother Art first recorded in 1962.
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 
