Last weekend we saw Stagger Lee, the Will Power and Justin Ellington musical doing its world premiere at the Dallas Theater Center. All the way through it I was thinking about John Wiley Price. Elaine ...

In the African-American community, the folk song “Stagger Lee” sits alongside “Frankie & Johnny” or “Bonnie and Clyde” as an iconic murder ballad: The story of a brutish thug (Stagger) who kills a man ...

*Regrettably, we must report that a singer who made his mark in the late 50s-early 60s, Lloyd Price, has passed. Price, also known as “Mr. Personality,” was the man behind such classic and monster ...