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"St. James Infirmary" on tenor sax "St. James Infirmary" is an American blues and jazz standard that emerged, like many others, from folk traditions. Louis Armstrong brought the song to lasting fame through his 1928 recording, on which Don Redman is named as composer; later releases credit "Joe Primrose", a pseudonym used by musician manager, music promoter and publisher Irving Mills. [1]
McTell in 1940 "Blind Willie McTell" is a song written and performed by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan.Named for the blues singer of the same name, the song was recorded in the spring of 1983, during the sessions for Dylan's album Infidels; however, it was ultimately left off the album and did not receive an official release until 1991, when it appeared on The Bootleg Series Volumes 1 ...
Pages in category "Songs with lyrics by Irving Mills" ... St. James Infirmary Blues; Straighten Up and Fly Right; W. Washboard Blues; When My Sugar Walks Down the Street
The White Stripes is the debut studio album by American rock duo the White Stripes, released on June 15, 1999.The album was produced by Jim Diamond and vocalist/guitarist Jack White, recorded in January 1999 at Ghetto Recorders and Third Man Studios in Detroit.
Dylan song Original tune Notes and links "Ballad in Plain D" "My Last Farewell to Stirling" [1]"Ballad of Hollis Brown" "Pretty Polly" [2]"Blind Willie McTell" "St. James Infirmary Blues"
Like in "St. James Infirmary Blues", Williams wants "six crapshooters to be my pallbearers". Lyrical similarities signify that the song shares "The Unfortunate Rake" with "St. James Infirmary Blues" as a common ancestor. A later song that draws on elements from the ballad is the Eric Bogle song "No Man's Land".
St. James Infirmary may refer to: "St. James Infirmary Blues", an American folk song; St. James Infirmary Clinic, a medical and social service organization in San Francisco; St. James Infirmary, a 1982 album by Dave Van Ronk
Like many folk songs, "The House of the Rising Sun" is of uncertain authorship. Musicologists say that it is based on the tradition of broadside ballads, and thematically it has some resemblance to the 16th-century ballad "The Unfortunate Rake" (also cited as source material for St. James Infirmary Blues), yet there is no evidence suggesting that there is any direct relation. [4]