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 ...

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 ...

In""Stagolee,"" one of history's best-known blues songs, a dispute between Billy Lyons and a""bad man"" called Stagolee ends in a shooting; variations of the ballad have been recorded by hundreds of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 -- ...

Is this the fried chicken of your dreams? It's named after a bad, bad man — folklore-outlaw figure Stag O' Lee — but they're serving up a seriously good menu at this Fulham soulfood joint. Everything ...

In observation of Black Music Month, we are taking a look at one song that describes the events surrounding a 1895 murder in St. Louis. Different accounts of what happened have been passed down ...