"Stagolee" Performance
Added 2023-05-01 13:00:13 +0000 UTCMost of my lyrics for "Stagolee" (aka Stagger Lee, Stack O'Lee, Stack-a-Lee) come from a recording of Mississippi John Hurt. My banjo arrangement is from George Gibson of Knott County, Kentucky, who also uses this melody for "Black Bottom Blues."
Shelton "Stag" Lee was a notorious pimp who shot and killed a man named Billy Lyons inside a St. Louis saloon on Christmas Eve, 1895. As described in the song, Lee's motive for the killing was apparently a new Stetson hat which Lyons had taken away from him. Lee was sent to prison; however, he was never executed.
My instrument is an 1888 Thompson & Odell "The Luscomb" banjo tuned ~ gCGCD.
Comments
Tab is coming ASAP. I've been working in Mississippi for several weeks and am now home trying to catch up.
Clifton Hicks
2023-05-04 00:14:33 +0000 UTCTab coming soon!
Clifton Hicks
2023-05-04 00:13:55 +0000 UTCGreat! Looking forwards to a tab too hopefully!
Daniel Pearce
2023-05-01 16:57:07 +0000 UTCHope there's a tab on the way (pretty please)...
Dominic Kemp
2023-05-01 14:29:52 +0000 UTC
