When he finally gets there she's dead, where after he lapses into a period of alcoholic remorse .. not for me, it remains a mystery why so many singers / bands / groups have covered it.
Ahh, the ol': "I'm a pathetic piece of shit but at least I'm demonstrating a marginal fraction of self-awareness so please comfort me and shower me with praise," routine. Fucking musicians give music a bad name.
As a kid in New Orleans, Blues and Jazz were all around me. Had to be there in the good old days before the more modern music. Mardi Gras was music central for two weeks Plus, before all the air conditioning, the clubs on Bourbon Street had the doors open and music poured into the streets. I loved that scene as a kid.
If you study the history of popular music, you'd know that all modern music came out of Blues and Jazz and black gospel, especially in south east Arkansas, all in the 1920's. I can even pinpoint the one fellow who built rock and roll music as a popular music form. And everything came out of that.
As for the Blues music, there's always room for sad songs. It's because so many people have hard lives. It's why Country/Western music remains popular. People can relate to hard times music.
I lived in metaire on the back of Lafrenye park (cant spell it anymore) Used to skip school by hiding on the carport roof until dad went to work at night we would open our back fence and run to those big white tents in park and try to climb up them before the golfcart security guy came around the track again. The only school dance I ever attended was at Jefferson Parish, it was like 1993 and all black kids with rap music. I left and went back to the park.
Go back to New Orleans then, faggot. Fuck you and your gay take on music. Everybody's got a hard life, difference is we don't bitch about it. Your opinion sucks and you should feel bad that you tried to sound smart about the history of bullshit whining noise.
St. James Infirmary is a New Orleans classic, going way back to the early days of blues and jazz. It was actually about a poor people's hospital in San Francisco, CA. First recorded by Louis Armstrong in 1928, but the lyrics were written by a Ukrainian jew. The music was originally recorded by the California Ramblers in the song 'Charleston Cabin', performed as a fox trot.
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If you study the history of popular music, you'd know that all modern music came out of Blues and Jazz and black gospel, especially in south east Arkansas, all in the 1920's. I can even pinpoint the one fellow who built rock and roll music as a popular music form. And everything came out of that.
As for the Blues music, there's always room for sad songs. It's because so many people have hard lives. It's why Country/Western music remains popular. People can relate to hard times music.
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Used to skip school by hiding on the carport roof until dad went to work
at night we would open our back fence and run to those big white tents in park and try to climb up them before the golfcart security guy came around the track again. The only school dance I ever attended was at Jefferson Parish, it was like 1993 and all black kids with rap music. I left and went back to the park.
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Here's both: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgpmeFyu8zk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzcpUdBw7gs&list=PLWF029QEjWfpDFuM-r9qvuOtqfAMKvwG1&index=7