“I thought I heard Buddy Bolden say / Funky butt, funky butt, take it away…” – Willie Cornish

Popular murder ballads “Frankie and Johnnie” and “Stagger Lee and Billy Lyons” were coincidentally each about murders in St. Louis, in 1899 and 1895 respectively.

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