Episode #149- Who Was the Real Stagger Lee?

Our Fake History

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History, Education, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 25 January 2022

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

The character of Stagger Lee has been one of America’s most enduring folk heroes. There have been over 400 songs written about the swaggering, gun-toting, bad man. He has gone by many names: Stacks Lee, Stagolee, Staxs O’Lee. Sometimes he is presented as a malevolent villain, others a heroic defender of the oppressed. No matter the telling Stagger Lee is always a badass. Is this figure just a piece of fiction dreamt up by blues musicians and perpetuated by their rock’n’roll progeny, or was there a real man behind the murderous myth? Tune-in and find out how Biggie Smalls, 19th century fightin’ words, and a milk white stetson hat all play a role in the story. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Chris Hariff from the Pluton and Chris Hariff podcast and I'm taking the bingles over
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0:08.2	online or on your mobile device. Visit bedonline.net today. Hey everyone, Sebastian here. Before we get
0:14.6	going today, I thought I should let you know that today's episode is going to deal with more mature
0:20.8	themes and might feature some slightly more salty language than I usually have in the podcast.
0:27.6	This is more of a PG-13 version of our fake history today. So if you're listening with younger
0:35.3	kids, you may want to have them sit this one out. Alright, let's enjoy the show.
0:47.8	Do you remember the first time you heard some music that really scared you?
0:53.1	I don't mean surprised you or thrilled you. I mean really frightened you.
1:00.8	Was there ever a moment in your young life when someone around you, maybe an older family member,
1:06.8	a friend, a neighbor, a slightly irresponsible babysitter, threw on some music that felt not just
1:15.5	naughty, but straight up evil. Growing up in a house where music was always on as a kid,
1:23.2	I thought there wasn't much musically that could freak me out. I was given a pretty thorough,
1:29.6	classic rock education by my parents, and I remember learning fairly early on that even artists
1:36.8	that seemed scary were mostly just pretending to be monsters. My parents used to rent me a VHS
1:44.6	video of classic Muppet Show episodes, and my favorite episode by far was the one with Alice Cooper.
1:52.9	I remember really enjoying his whole Halloween stick. Now that one sticks out in my mind,
1:59.8	because I clearly remember my mom saying something like, people used to think this guy was really
2:06.0	scary, but look, he's dancing with Miss Piggy. Now that lesson mostly stuck with me, but then when
2:15.6	I was around 10 years old, I had my first few experiences with music that were truly frightening.
2:22.7	It was in that year that Marilyn Manson released his cover of the Eurythmics Sweet Dreams.
2:29.1	I remember stumbling upon that music video while flipping through the channels,
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