Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. The story of Stack-O-Lee—or Stack O’Lee or Stagger Lee or Stack A Lee depending on ...

David L. Ulin is the editor of "Another City: Writing From Los Angeles" and "Writing Los Angeles: A Literary Anthology." I first encountered Stagolee in a song by the Grateful Dead. It was 1978, and I ...

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama-- There's a simple - and revealing - explanation as to why Stagolee's band T-shirt depicts a horse's head. The Nashville blues-rock quintet's two principal songwriters, Jimmy Kent ...

OAKLAND — For Cecil Brown, it’s about setting the record straight. In his new book, “I, Stagolee,” Brown recreates the drama of legendary pimp Stagolee shooting a rival one Christmas night at a bar in ...

In the red-light district of St Louis in 1895, a pimp shot a man dead in an argument over a hat. The ballad telling the story has been recorded by hundreds of bluesmen and jazzers - and even the Clash ...

BAD TO THE BONE: His name is usually given as Stagolee, though sometimes it’s Stagger Lee, or Stack O’Lee. Like other details, it varies, depending on who sings or recites the tale. But everyone ...

Stagolee shot Billy -- Lee Shelton : the man behind the myth -- That bad pimp of old St. Louis : the oral poetry of the late 1890s -- "Poor Billy Lyons" -- Narrative events and narrated events -- ...

STAGOLEE AND THE FUNERAL OF A DANGEROUS WORD is a fascinating study of one word that I never speak under any circumstance. It’s a word so reviled and controversial, but at the same time, it can often ...

Pictures of Black civil rights leaders pepper the forest green walls of the office on stage. The office bulletin board is haphazardly scattered with various community events. Papers littered over an ...

Timothy Eric, Ed Muth and Seth Carter Ramsey in Stagolee and the Funeral of a Dangerous Word at Main Stret Theater. Credit: Photo by Ricornel Productions “The N-Word has been around since 1619. It’s ...