An old traditional. I recorded it with an USB-Mic into my Laptop using Cakewalk PA9. There I mixed it and "aged" it using Izotope Vinyl.
country blues picking
I started playing acoustic guitar in the seventies but after a few years learning country blues picking my instrest changed due to other commitments like studies and others. Some twenty years later I picked up the guitar again to start where I had left.
Story behind the song
I am a big fan of Mississippi John Hurt. One of the first songs I learned to pick on the guitar was My Creole Belle. Hmm... maybe, one time I will upload that song too.
Lyrics
Stack O'Lee Blues Lyrics:
Police officer, how can it be?
You can 'rest everybody but cruel Stack O' Lee
That bad man, oh, cruel Stack O' Lee
Billy de Lyon told Stack O' Lee, "Please don't take my life,
I got two little babies, and a darlin' lovin' wife"
That bad man, oh, cruel Stack O' Lee
"What I care about you little babies, your darlin' lovin' wife?
You done stole my Stetson1 hat, I'm bound to take your life"
That bad man, cruel Stack O' Lee
Boom, boom. Boom, boom ...with the forty-four
When I spied, Billy de Lyon, he was lyin' down on the floor
That bad man, oh, cruel Stack O' Lee
"Gentleman's of the jury, what do you think of that?
Stack O' Lee killed Billy de Lyon about a five-dollar Stetson hat"
That bad man, oh, cruel Stack O' Lee
And all they gathered, hands way up high,
at twelve o'clock they killed him, they's all glad to see him die
That bad man, oh, cruel Stack O' Lee
