THEFT OF STETSON HAT CAUSES DEADLY DISPUTE, VICTIM IDENTIFIES SELF AS FAMILY MAN ~ Liner note for Frank Hutchinson’s Stackalee from The Anthology of American Folk Music, edited by Harry Smith
It’s 1895, Christmas night. You’re wandering confused down a street you’ve never seen before, but somehow you know the day, the year.
The city. You’re in St. Louis.
How? Are you dreaming? Maybe you are, because you keep on sighting images and scenes that make no sense, that shouldn’t be in this world. You see a man by an open grave…
