For the Friday, April 30 show at Jensen’s in Santa Barbara (the opening night soiree of the Santa Barbara Minute Film Festival), we are debuting our version of the Stagger Lee legend, told so well by everyone from Ike & Tina Turner to Wilson Pickett to Nick Cave. Ours has the Stag going to space and becoming a constellation.
Here is the demo of the song. You have to imagine it with castrati choir, theremin, Thera-Flu, and chain gangs.
Listen:
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Constaggerlation
See also: Jensen’s, Santa Barbara Minute
If I knew how to play the ukulele, could I play it for this song?
Yes you could, but you would have to play the character of Marietta