RL Burnside - Stack-O-Lee

[Decatur7]

Thanks LouisX; good to see where it all came from.

[guitardavid79]

I remember this video on youtube awhile back and it wasn't censored. Who's the asshole responsible for this unacceptable bullshit. And also, there were a lot more videos of this one, where the hell are they?

[frankensteinmoneymac]

With all the videos on Youtube where people say the word Fuck for no good reason.....who the Hell uploads a video onto Youtube with the word censored in a work of art like this track?!?! That's just incredibly asinine.....Sorry it just is.

[hardsellbaby]

screw the black keys. look up LEFT LANE CRUISER they bring out the rawness and grittyness just like R. L. does. yes sir, yes sir!

[witchever99]

you cant say fuck but they let you rant hate all day long

[theBigNoseAttack]

this is the black keys inspiration for stack shot billy!!

great songs both of them!check my channel if you like rl and black keys!

cheers from greece!

[GreaseStain]

@theBigNoseAttack

nope, stack shot billy is another song, even older, and a different rythem and lyrics. different songs, the only connection, is old school slang.

[theBigNoseAttack]

@GreaseStain if you have a vintage version of stack shot billy that's exactly the same with the black keys please send it to me...i'm really curious

[chiron8839]

@theBigNoseAttack - This song has been around in a variety of forms for at least a century. Hell, Lloyd Price did it before R.L did, and it was ancient then.

[chiron8839]

@theBigNoseAttack - I can't post a link here, but if you do a web search for "The Stagger Lee Files," it will take you to a page with a newspaper article about original 1895 murder in St. Louis that the song is based on. Beyond that, just search on Youtube for "Stagger Lee" or "Stack-O-Lee," and you'll turn up most of the major versions by people like Mississippi John Hurt, Lloyd Price, Wilson Pickett, and a lot of other artists.

[edgeGabe]

Thank you louisx123 keep uploading the blues for me and everyone to hear.

[kanye3215]

has any one else noticed that the real "niggas" or real "gangstas" are actually people who sing the blues, a lot of blues artist have actually killed people, look at r.l burnside he had killed a man and other have to0

[hugglife]

The Nick Cave version is taken from the version on Johnny Otis's Snatch & The Poontangs album (with a teenage Shuggie on guitar) - an amazing, filthy record, but I'd be surprised if that was where it originated.

[faunoram]

yeah ... FUCK CENSORSHIP !!!!

[busessuck1]

Everybody thinks Samuel Jackson is a budass, but really he's a punk compared to Robert

Also... anyone who can't handle swearing shouldn't be listening to blues in the first play, fuck off back to your nuns congregation

[SunnyLowdown]

Well, well, well...you were one of a kind, R.L.

[swams0]

I love all the different versions of Stag-O-Lee, such a cool story to sing about, Nick Cave's version is especially twisted.

[therealsolstice]

craig ferguson!

[utubehasherpes]

@therealsolstice HAHA, me too.

[MrBad357]

i want to learn this on the guitar

[entrain08]

what album is the R L Burnside version off?

[teleevangelist]

a true mississippi and louisiana heritage ^5 rip RL Burnside, you rocked, like no one could, thanx for playin in baton rouge

[Cutflood]

Censored? We can watch live streaming video of the war. We can watch COPS. But OOOO NOOOOO Heaven help our little ears! We can hear a naught word!

[myboomstick]

rl burnside is a legend - 5/5

censorship sucks...so FUCK this vid - 1/5

[polistyrenejassband]

this is pretty close to the nick cave version

[thesybs]

I think I can see the spirit un-proudfleshed.

[troutvt]

rl bad.

[Ranbo316]

why edit this its perfect?

[sipes13]

RL Burnside is legend.

[MasonMan16]

what year was this? this is awesome

[jarldagr]

you like this one you'd like the song about Robert Johnson at the crossroads

[MasonMan16]

i do i like everything robert johnson ever did

[Fififlan]

"he gave him a dirty glass of watter and a tough-ass piece of meat"

I would shoot someone to for that

[PurrfectPeach]

If you could afford a gun why not just buy better food?

[neurofire]

You kinda miss the point of the song dude.

[PurrfectPeach]

You kinda missed my sarcasm, dude.

[studentofsociety]

such an amazing recycled folk tail of stack lee. nick cave and the bad seeds ended up doing a recreation of this song/story called "stagger lee". it a tad more graphic but still quality lol

[jessupar]

after seeing the video of RL talking about how "when troubles goin around, i find its much quicker to call .357 than 911", i'd be more afraid of RL than stack o lee or billy any day hah. even though they're all dead now..

[Matty73]

nick cave does a pretty fucking mean version too eh.

[bgggbb]

This is fucking killer!

[glenangus1]

cool

[TheLepetomane]

¿What the fuck?

[binzing]

Absolutely amazing, I love how the Black Keys drew so obviously from this song for "Stack Shot Billy".

[distillersfan1717]

RL borrowed this from others, the song has a really long tradition in blues music, and accents combined with word of mouth have changed "Stack's" name, sometimes to Stagger or Stag

[mkrdmt]

You are correct sir. If there is a "Blues Standard" then Stack-o-lee would be it. a great foundation for a classic song. I have heard many variations of this tune, from Mississippi John Hurt to Pacific Gas & Electric. But RL really speaks the truth "I just wanted to shoot him in the head, It was between him and God if he died."

[SunnyLowdown]

Cold!

[ridedirtba]

I didn't see you down there imgooley. so you know already.

[ridedirtba]

Nick Cave has a unique version of this song recorded in Amsterdam.Check it out.

[michaelsteel101]

where are the tabs to this one

[suidis]

Fuck all sensored videos!!

[HakanEhn]

I recorded a harp tribute to RL Burnside on my YouTube site.

[Ranbo316]

where did you find this its amazing i love RL

[whiteley9468]

Check out RL's CD "Ass Pocket of Whiskey" There is a version of this song on there call "The Criminal Inside Me."

[SAILINJUNKIE]

NOW DAMN THAT HIT SPOT!!

[lobizoon1]

It has so many different names it can be , StackerLee , Stack-O-Lee, Stagg-O-Lee, StaggerLee... etc.

[velvetgonzo]

y the fuck is this shit cut

[dunskie]

Stagger Lee. Not Stack-O-Lee. Right?

[BlakkDuv]

no

please listen to the newest version of this song called stack shot billy by the black keys its amzing

[jessupar]

That's just opinion i think. mississippi john hurt used to play this song. there are (i think) 3 albums with diferent names, and diferent versions. one is called stagger lee, one is called stack o lee... dosnt really matter though.

[japhyryder321]

it was based off an actual event and yes there was a man named Stagger Lee, Stack O Lee is just pronunciation

[dunskie]

Thank you.

[GoodOldGar]

In a St. louis bar in 1895, a man named Billy Lion, or DeLion was shot by a carriage driver/pimp named Lee Shelton, nicknamed "Stack" or "Stacker" or "Stack O'Lee." To date, over 200 songs have been written about that murder, many just variations of previous songs, such as the hit record "Stagger Lee." It was not clear if they had been gambling, but it did seem to be over a new Stetson hat, although there had been some bad blood between the two for a long time.

[imgooley]

Nice post. My personal favorite version of the legend is "Stack Shot Billy" by The Black Keys. The Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds version is probably the darkest version I've heard.

[kavuss]

is that not the guyin the interveiw at the begining of the movie. please correct me if I'm wrong

[DonTabignon]

well, you're wrong, hehe... the one you're talking 'bout is Son House... he's the motherfucki' blues himself!!!

[okrafester]

You ought to tag this "Stagger Lee" for the folks who like to argue which version is better or more "authentic" or "closer to the original."

[mm4ng]

sam jackson is a dirty singer, nad guitar player...xd

[jessupar]

and you are just plain stupid. he dosnt play the guitar in that movie one bit.

[mm4ng]

hahahhhhhahahaha. who said iwas talkin5 about that movie. who is just plain now?

[Lotrfan99]

if u mean samuel l jackson ur wrong he learned guitar specifically for the role

[jessupar]

your shitting me right? watch the part where he "plays" catfish and come back here. he does NOT play that part. now, MAYBE he was playing the title track, it looked possible, but there are parts of the songs he plays in the bar that you can tell, he isnt doing shit.

[TheBrowndawg]

luther dickinson played guitar for that movie, im pretty sure

[MrWiseguy27]

nah it was Kenny Brown

[corridorsofpower]

what..no one mentions the Professor Longhair version?

[Ranbo316]

anyone got this uncensored?

[louisx123]

The uncensored version is on the Well, Well, Well CD on MC Records, available at Amazon or at the MC Records web site

[Nairfy]

@louisx123 Or thepiratebay.

[anticlimatic22]

Great version of Stagger Lee, check out Nick Cave's version, it's equally badass and full of profanity. Why is it listed as "Stack-o-Lee" though?

[fsykes67]

There are numerous versions of this old, supposedly true, story. Even Bob Dylan has a version called "Stack A Lee." Robert Hunter and Jerry Garcia wrote an original song telling the old traditional story and called it "Delia DeLyon & Stagger Lee," but it just ended up as "Stagger Lee" on the album "Shakedown Street."

[mccrabapple]

Dylan swiped his version NOTE FOR NOTE from the Frank Hutchison recording... made around 1928/33. Hutchison was a great West Virginia guitar player. Check out his "West Virginia Rag."

[sutcliff]

priceless

[sirsartana]

Awesome real.......cannot must not be forgotten

[ojokkojo]

Well, well, well.......

[bluesfreak45]

Just for the record, Samuel is singing the exact version that R.L. used to sing. Only difference seems to be the timing sometimes and, well, he plays his own guitarlicks on there. He's pretty good.

[pauloxaxb]

big as John Lee.....

the best

[samuraifaery]

R.I.P Mr.Burnside. You had mad skillz

[x2mars]

RL was the best, and this video a masterpiece