Ladies and gentlemen, it is with great pride and no small amount of trepidation that She'll Grow Back presents a compilation entitled "Talkin' Bout The Baaad Man: The Best of Stagger Lee."The choices made to cut this down to under 80 minutes, or one CD's worth, were hard and are likely to be controversial. (I intend to remedy this with further volumes of "the best.") Hopefully, most of you will find your favorite version of Stag on this collection. If not, that's what the comments section down there is for. I'm not writing up special liner notes for this; I've written up each song in its own post, which you'll find links to below. Arranged chronologically, these 22 tracks embody the main themes of Stagger Lee the ballad, the folk song, the blues song, and the rocker.
Tracklisting:
1926: Ma Rainey
1927: Frank Hutchison
1927: Furry Lewis
1928: Cliff Edwards
1928: Mississippi John Hurt
1944: Woody Guthrie
1950: Archibald
1951: Tennessee Ernie Ford
1958: Lloyd Price
1963: Dave Van Ronk
1966: Ike and Tina Turner
1968: Taj Mahal
1968: Wilson Pickett
1972: Dr. John
1979: The Clash
1993: Bob Dylan
1996: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
1998: R. L. Burnside
2004: The Black Keys
2005: Chris Whitley and Jeff Lang
2007: Samuel L. Jackson
2008: Keb' Mo'














