NP: Stagger Lee

[Steve Maas]

Some of you may be interested in this.  Steve Maas

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Cecil Brown
Thursday May 08 2003
The Guardian

Godfather of Gangsta
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. It also helped create 
modern-day rap.  Cecil Brown  tells the remarkable tale of Stagolee

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Print/0,3858,4663884,00.html

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