By Jason Diamond Over at Lit Drift, they discuss one of the greatest bad guys in American folklore: Stagger Lee. That nasty murderer who’s crimes have been documented for well over a century is, undeniably, an American legend that serves as a perfect foil to the good guy tall-tales of Paul Bunyan and John Henry, who (may have) come into existence around the same time as Lee entered the public consciousness. Long before Mississippi John Hurt recorded what is possibly […]
Making Stagger Lee even worse
By Jason Diamond Over at Lit Drift they discuss one of the greatest bad guys in American folklore, Stagger Lee. That nasty murderer whose crimes have been documented for well over a century is, undeniably, an American legend that serves as a perfect foil to the good guy tall-tales of Paul Bunyan and John Henry, who may have come into existence around the same time as Lee entered the public consciousness. Long before Mississippi John Hurt recorded what is possibly the […]