Last night I heard the Preservation Hall Jazz Band perform this song on the public channel’s Austin City Limits show. It’s such a great song that I played it again today especially for this blog. I think it’s one of the great classics of American folk music, so here it is again in hopes that others will pick up on it and play and sing it themselves. Frizz of Flickrtext has featured this song too. Check it out. Look up Louis Armstrong’s version.
An Occasional Story 
my version (with GERNOT from Hamburg on blues harp):
https://soundcloud.com/fingerstyle_guitar/blues-wikiloops-jam-no-15675
still one of the most important blues ballads, isn’t it St?
Frizz,
You just made me check my posts. Earlier today I was preparing a new post that I still had to work on.: A St.James infirmary Compendium. I made a new category of that title and went back and re-tagged all the old posts. Maybank and I played it the other day. We almost always play it. He called it a blues too. I don’t think of it as a blues because it is minor key – which is quite a minor issue (sorry)……….
I know I have your link to your renditions of the song and whenever you sing it you can add to the Compendium. Thanks for visiting,Frizz.
beautiful song, Stephen. Thank you for sharing this one .
groetjes, Francina
Dank, Francina,
Groetjes, Steve
heard your version! wonderful slowly …
Great song, although I’d never before heard it. I have had the opportunity to see the Preservation Hall Jazz Band perform live. Never Satchmo, though. I’m thinking I missed my opportunity about 40 years ago.
Never too late. I’ve only come to love this song recently. Ya gotta hear Satchmo sing “get out your crepe and your flowers, get out your rubber-tired hacks…”
This so beautiful, I really love it.
Thank you, thank you. It’s just a wonderful song.
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I don’t know how to do those happy faces, but !!!!!!!!!! and thanks to you Marina.
Thank YOU for creating that mood!!!!
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:&-& Huh? I’ll work on it ! Smiles to you Marina.
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