Abandoned, by St James Infirmary

Abandoned

by St James Infirmary

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NARC MAGAZINE INTERVIEW WITH GARY LANG:
tinyurl.com/2v6ph2ba

"I love this album. It’s an album full of beautifully written indie, country, folk songs: so what on earth is their not to love? An album that brings to mind Dylan, The Weather Prophets, Hefner and Lee Hazelwood – especially on the rather splendid ‘Old Fashion Arms’; I am always a sucker for male/female duets as all the regular readers will know. And this one is a humdinger of a song, one worthy of Lee and Nancy.

It is nice to see and to hear that humour and heartache can still go hand-in-hand in this day of throwaway pop frippery, and Abandoned is an album to pop in your cassette player (if you are lucky enough to be one of the 35 purchasers to purchase it) and admire the wit and wisdom wrapped in country-ish melodies."
- BRIAN ‘BORDELLO’ SHEA, Monolith Cocktail
monolithcocktail.com/2023/11/24/our-daily-bread-602-eamon-the-destroyer-ex-norwegian-st-james-infirmary-k-board-the-skreens/

"The music combines the old and the new, the serious and the humorous, and incorporates grand-scale creativity into a stripped-down DIY approach, dichotomies that all serve to make this an effective and enjoyable set of songs."
- KIm Harten, Bliss Aquamarine
www.blissaquamarine.net/albumreviews33.html

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St. James Infirmary, of Ashington, Northumberland (UK), was formed in 1985 as the creative vehicle for singer, songwriter and multi- instrumentalist G.W.Lang and has been continuously active ever since. G.W.L. is assisted in producing his prolific multi genre-spanning output by an evolving and rotating cast of bandmates and (at last count), SJI has boasted in the region of 40 members.

With 'Abandoned' GW Lang's merry crew take on Americana, where Nashville is Newcastle, Lee Hazlewood lived in Ashington and The Byrds wrote 'Sweetheart Of The Rodeo' in Bedlington.

Wry humour, societal reflections and dark observations, with rousing bittersweet melodies.

(The views of the song's protagonists are not necessarily those of the writers)

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released November 24, 2023

St James Infirmary are G W Lang, Mark Oliver, Andrea Woodyer, Guy Whitby, Ryan Siddall, Gary Brady and Bing Bongo

All songs by gwl except:
6 Woodyer - Oliver -Lang
8 Oliver - Lang

The views of the song's protagonists are not necessarily those of the writers

Produced by Jimmy Buxton for Mario's Recording Services, Ashington, Northumberland

Recorded by Gary J Brady at Escapade, Greenwich
With additional recording by Ryan Siddall at Bugman Studios, North Shields and Jimmy Buxton at Mario's

Sleeve by Skip Doncaster

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