Stagger Lee Singer Lloyd Price Dies! Was He VAXXED???

I don’t know if Lloyd Price was recently VAXXED.

I think he probably was.

WLWT:

Singer-songwriter Lloyd Price, an early rock ’n roll star and enduring maverick whose hits included such up-tempo favorites as “Lawdy Miss Clawdy,” “Personality” and the semi-forbidden “Stagger Lee,” has died. He was 88.

Price died Monday at a long-term care facility in New Rochelle, New York, of complications from diabetes, his wife, Jacqueline Price, told The Associated Press on Saturday.

Lloyd Price, inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998, was among the last survivors of a post-World War II scene in New Orleans that anticipated the shifts in popular music and culture leading to the rise of rock in the mid-1950s. Along with Fats Domino and David Bartholomew among others, Price fashioned a deep, exuberant sound around the brass and swing of New Orleans jazz and blues that placed high on R&B charts and eventually crossed over to white audiences.

“Very important part of Rock history. He was BEFORE Little Richard!” rock singer and E Street Band member Steven Van Zandt said Saturday on Twitter. “Lawdy Miss Clawdy of 1952 has a legit claim as the first Rock hit…. Righteous cat. Enormous talent.”

This is really strange, because I just recently posted “Stagger Lee.” Like, earlier this week. I can’t remember which article, but I know for a fact I posted it. And it was definitely the Lloyd Price version.

Right here, it was this exact YouTube video:

It’s a wonderful song, back from when blacks had some use to society. Gotta give them credit for that – they’ve done some good music.

The song has an interesting history you can read about on Wikipedia.

The Lloyd Price version was actually semi-censored because of the shooting scene described in it, because I guess you weren’t allowed to talk about shootings in 1959.

Nick Cave recorded a version of it that is really dark because he wanted to get it banned like the original version. It was sort of… meta art.

I’m not going to post the Nick Cave version because it’s actually too gross for Daily Stormer. But since we’re talking about him, I’ll post another Nick Cave song.

Nick Cave is actually a genius. It’s bizarre how little credit he’s gotten. I guess it’s because he’s a Christian.

I don’t listen to him much of course, as I can’t listen to heroin music on a regular basis. Even right-wing Christian heroin music.

But God bless his tortured soul. He is a genius and a figure that would be at the center of any serious culture. If he had been at the center of a healthy culture, his music might not be so depressing.

I can also recommend his film The Proposition.

I’ve never read his books though. They’re on the list.