Stagolee Shot Billy Quotes

“There is some evidence that Lee Shelton took the name from the riverboat Stack Lee. Many of the riverboats were the subjects of "coonjining" (conjoining) songs. These songs, according to Garnett Laidlaw Eskew, "eulogized the boats themselves." "There was something intensely personal about a steamboat. To the men who manned and owned and operated them, steamboats had personality. Hence the qualities of certain boats live today in Coonjine songs." 18”
― Cecil Brown, Stagolee Shot Billy

“John and Alan Lomax claimed alternately that "Stack Lee ... was the son of the Lee family of Memphis who owned a large line of steamers that ran up and down the Mississippi" and that the name Stack Lee came from the riverboat of that name.'-”
― Cecil Brown, Stagolee Shot Billy