"St James Infirmary Blues"

A few things i should have pointed out:
 
I'm tuned down a whole step. It's hard to do that with nylon strings without the intonation being off. Hopefully it's not too bad.
 
I'm recording with the guitar going to the left channel and the vocal to the right on the same wave file. You can watch this happen in Audition on the monitor behind me as I'm playing. (And as you can see I did a few takes prior to this one.) I of course separating the two channels later and processed them separately, although obviously some of the guitar bled into the vocal mic, which is fine. "Leakage is my friend," as Peter Frampton used to say. The guitar went in direct. It has a built-in Fishman Aura and it sounds quite good going direct.
 
Yes, I'm getting old! 60 next March.
 
Bill

Very nicely done Bill ... and you have the right kind of voice to pull this song off ... Acc guitar sounds great as is your playing .... loved it!
 
Stay well you old sod (I have 8 years on ya, so I can say that )

Enjoyed this Bill, the vocals/guitar translated very nicely on the headphones.

Boy, lots of geezers in this forum. No wonder they're shutting us down. 

Brilliant and impressive, very well done! I also like how you didn't drive the headstock into the speakercone. Like I did once.
 
cheers,
-Tom

LOVE Jim Croce. Time in a Bottle was one of the first songs I ever learned. I was just watching some videos of him the other day. Loved Maury Muehleisen's playing too. He was an early influence on me as much as Jim was.
 
Tom, you don't know how close I've come to doing just that on many occasions. These are the best monitors I've ever heard, so that would just kill me if I wrecked them.
 
Star, this was a very easy song. I originally sat down to record a medley of Infirmary / Bridge of Sighs / Baby Elephant Walk, but I messed up the lyrics on the first verse of Sighs and decided to just do Infirmary or I might have been all night.
 
Bill

Hi, Bill,
 
Dynamite job on this very tasty blues cover!
 
Excellent finger picking, the nylons on that Godin sound perfect for the style, and your vocals were absolute dynamite!
 
The video was great, too, and the intimacy of the guitar and vocal mix gave me the vibe of sitting in a 70's folk coffee house, right up front by the stage.
 
Really nice work, Bill, great stuff, buddy!
 
Have a good one,
Bob

Lovely version - well sung.
 
Enjoyed it very much.
 
Thanks for sharing.
 
Good Job!
 
paul

Really nicely played and sung Bill.
 
Excellent voice which suited the song and I wouldn't have known that the Godin was plugged in rather than mic'd.
As Daryl said, picking and singing at the same time is not easy!
 

Beautiful rendition. Made my day to hear this classic done with such simplicity and style. You really nailed it.
Best to all you young dudes in the cradle. I think I got all you spring chickens beat as far as being thrown onto the banana boat some place in time.
 
John

Absoflippinlutely excellent job on this number.  Playing and vocals (love those baritone sounds) were terrific.  A man and his guitar  ---- as it should be!   Seems that we geezers do populate this forum but at only 60 YO perhaps we should call you the "Kid"?