Jesus Blood Never Failed Me Yet

Is it the performer's curse? The better you know your music, the more mechanical your performance? I'm working on a new routine, maybe with the clarinet in place of the soprano sax. 

I need to beef up my background guitar (recorded on my Edirol, left, and played in the street through my iPod connected to the little Roland amp). It's lost in big streets and I have to find accoustic hot spots like the entrance to the shopping mall in Stratford on Avon for it to work well. 


And I'm looking at new songs. Nice guy asked me to play Take Five in Leominster yesterday. Couldn't oblige.


One piece of music I'd love to add sax to is composer Gavin Bryars' 1971 loop recording of a London tramp singing the hymn Jesus Blood Never Failed Me Yet. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbczBcz78vo This version has added accompaniment and the gravel voice of Tom Waits.