Re St James Infirmary, I listened as advised above to this piece of cocktail lounge muzak. So the guy may have musical talent but what he displays here has nothing to do with the real thing. This is blues (and if I was nitpicking I would say strictly speaking it isn't a blues)for non blues afficianados. One of the DVD's in Scorses's much publicised and hyped series on the blues was concerned with the British blues scene of the 60' and featured such well known blues performers as Tom Jones and Lulu. This is just more of the same.

I'm just off to listen to Big Maceo play some real piano, that should work. There is just so much of the real thing available that material like that under discussion is completely superfluous.

Hoot