Song o' the Week

Music is essential to my well-being. Listening to it, creating it, dissecting it, talking about it, seeking it out. Nothing transcends race, age, culture, and language quite like music. In my eyes, a good song or piece of music is timeless. If you're like me, the discovery of a great song or piece that you have never heard before makes you as giddy as a child with a new toy. With this in mind, I'm going to resume a practice of mine which, unfortunately, came to a halt a few years ago. There may or may not be any rhyme or reason to the songs I share with you each week. My tastes are about as ecclectic as they come and my inspiration may be born of a variety of muses. Yet I hope that you still get as much joy from these tunes and these artists as I do.

For this week, I'm going back a couple of generations to a song and a story which has taken many forms of the years (including renditions at the hands of Mississippi John Hurt, The Grateful Dead, The Clash, and The Black Keys). My parents would remember this song from its radio popularity, but younger folks perhaps from late-night infomercials...


"Stagger Lee" by Lloyd Price




Enjoy.