[And now, Part 5 of this ongoing interview with Robert W. Harwood about his book I Went Down To St. James Infirmary. Part 1 is here, Part 2 is here, Part 3 is here, and Part 4 is here. This may or may not be the last installment in this series -- it's all I [...]
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Q&A Series (5): “I Went Down To St. James Infirmary,” by Robert W. Harwood
Posted in "St. James Infirmary", Friends, Intellectual property, Irving Mills/Joe Primrose, Q&As on January 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Q&A Series (3): “I Went Down To St. James Infirmary,” by Robert W. Harwood
Posted in "St. James Infirmary", Intellectual property, Irving Mills/Joe Primrose, Musical context, Q&As on December 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
[And now, Part 3 of this ongoing interview with Robert W. Harwood about his book I Went Down To St. James Infirmary. Part 1 is here, and Part 2 is here.] Q: You make it pretty clear in the book that what we now know as “St. James Infirmary” was in reasonably wide circulation in [...]
Great moments in technology
Posted in "St. James Infirmary", Irving Mills/Joe Primrose, MySpace/YouTube/Etc., Versions on July 13, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Of all the YouTube “SJI” ephemera, this one cracked me up the most. I was of course interested to see the title: “St. James Infirmary By Duke Ellington and his Orchestra 1930.” Wow! There’s footage of that! I clicked immediately. What the clip turned out to be was a video of a record playing. That’s [...]
“St. James Infirmary”
[Or: The Point of this Site]
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 third version.And now, this site: A place to collect some of the links, leads, thoughts, and suggestions relating to the song that readers (from Finland, The Netherlands, Australia, Spain, England, Sweden, Canada, and all over the U.S.) have sent me. This may lead to a fourth and significantly expanded version of the essay, some day. Also on this site: Plenty of tangents.
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The Essay
The most recent version of my "St. James Infirmary" essay is now a few years old. But it's still a fairly decent overview of what I know about the song, and why I'm interested in it. You can read it either in the book Letters from New Orleans (see below), or in the archives of The Gambit, the New Orleans weekly that published the piece as a book excerpt when LfNO came out.
The Book
This site is a partial spinoff of the book Letters from New Orleans, published by the unstoppable Garrett County Press. My interest in "St. James Infirmary" is the subject of one essay in the book. All author proceeds from the book still go to post-Katrina relief efforts, so I think it's okay for me to say: You ought to buy it.
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