Stackalee

General Information
Performer: Frank Hutchison

Instrumentation: Guitar, Harmonica

Date of recording: 1927

Record label: Okeh

Serial #:45106 (W80-359A)

Summary
(As summarized by Harry Smith, The Anthology Of American Folk Music) "THEFT OF STETSON HAT CAUSES DEADLY DISPUTE. VICTIM IDENTIFIES SELF AS FAMILY MAN" (5).

Information On This Song
This Ballad is a rendition of Stackolee. This rendition is fits "Version A" the best. The lines "Stackalee said to the jailer,\"Jailer I can't sleep\'round my bedside,\Billy Lyons begins to creep" are also found in some variations of Delia.

Albums Featuring This Song

 * The Anthology Of American Folk Music
 * Worried Blues (album)
 * Frank Hutchison Vol. 1
 * Good For What Ails You!
 * Prayers From Hell
 * Old Time

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