RL Burnside - Stack-O-Lee

In "Black Snake Moan" Samuel Jackson sings a unique version of Stack-O-Lee. R.L. Burnside used to sing a similar version.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• RL
• Burnside
• Black
• Snake
• Moan
• Blues
• Delta
• Hill
• Country
• Guitar
• Mississippi
• Staggerlee
• Stack
• O
• Lee
• Stagolee

[suidis]

Fuck all sensored videos!!

[sipes13]

RL Burnside is legend.

[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.

[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.

[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!

[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

[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.

[witchever99]

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