‘Signs of Life’
Posted in Friends, Other Music + on August 29, 2006 | Comments Off
New book alert: “Signs of Life is a moving collection of photos of the hand-made signs that appeared [...]
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Mash & Hoax
Posted in Musical context, New Orleans, Other Music + on August 29, 2006 | Comments Off
Just when you (well, when I) thought BoingBoing had devolved into nothing but “Xeni is on TV again,” and “Cory has another promotional event tomorrow,” the site comes through with some great stuff.
First: None other than Xeni links to “Wu Orleans,” in which DJ BC has mixed various pieces of New Orleans music with the [...]
What’s Going On With The Dirty Dozen….
Posted in Musical context, New Orleans, Other Music + on August 24, 2006 | Comments Off
Well this is intereting: The Dirty Dozen Brass Band has done an album, due out on August 29, that is a re-creation of Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On.” This NPR interview indicates that on a certain level it is the band’s response to Katrina.
Plus, the title track features CHUCK D!!
Did everyone else know about this [...]
Promotional Item
Posted in Other Music +, The Hot 8 on May 29, 2006 | Comments Off
It’s a big day here at no notes HQ: The power and influence of the world’s leading “St. James Infirmary”-themed blog marches forward by way of some kind words on my favorite Podcast, The Sounds In My Head. Sure this is partly the result of my harassing host Daniel after he did a New [...]
Songs of Our Selves
Posted in Musical context, Other Music + on April 27, 2006 | 1 Comment »
In connection with the day job, I try to keep an eye on certain areas of academic research. That’s why I happened to be flipping through the March 2006 issue (Vol. 17; No. 3) of Psychological Science, a journal publishd by the Association for Psychological Sciences, and got interested in an article called “Message [...]
6 Links
Posted in Friends, New Orleans, One song / one album, Other Music +, Public Housing on April 14, 2006 | Comments Off
1. Pal Karen Schoemer talks about her new book on the radio show On Point. She’s joined by Nellie McKai (who reviewed her book for the NYT), Patti Page, and Fabian. The book is called Great Pretenders: My Strange Love Affair with ’50s Pop Music. Here’s an excerpt on the NYT site, which I guess [...]
6 Links
Posted in Letters From New Orleans book, Musical context, New Orleans, Other Music + on March 19, 2006 | Comments Off
1. Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Streams and downloads of thousands of cylinder recordings. (Article about it in NYT). Superdope.
2. David Byrne Radio, two hours and 43 minutes of music he likes (not music by him). This month it’s “Afro-Cuban classics mostly from the 40s and 50s.” In [...]
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"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.
Never heard "St. James Infirmary"? Start here.
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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.
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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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