Three years later, Mississippi John Hurt issued his own “Stack O’ Lee Blues,” a decidedly more delicate and mournful take. He was fixated on Shelton’s five-dollar hat, the theft of which allegedly precipitated the murder. To Hurt, it was a pathetic rationale for a senseless act. But for other performers, the Stetson established Stack’s flash and fearlessness, a terrifying exercise of free will that roiled St. Louis’s white power structure. (Shelton received two pardons from two separate governors before dying of tuberculosis in 1912.) During the first part of 1950’s two-parter “Stack-A’Lee” written and performed by New Orleans singer/pianist Archibald it is noted that Billy took the Stetson in a dice game. In the second, the police kill Stack, but Stack dethrones the devil. (Call it a draw.) It is this version that Price born in neighboring Kenner, Louisiana probably knew best. Like Stack and Billy, he was a gambler. But Price gambled exclusively on hims
Every Eurovision song to chart on the US Billboard Hot 100
Typically you would not put Eurovision and the United States in the same sentence. But more recently there are greater connections forming between with the United States of America and the Eurovision Song Contest.
In 2016 the Eurovision Song Contest was broadcast live in the United States for the first time on Logo TV. The 2016 Contest featured US singer Justin Timberlake as a special guest who performed his hits Rock Your Body and Can t Stop the Feeling! . More recently the queen of pop, Madonna, was a guest performer at the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 in Tel Aviv.