Awesome thanks for the history behind it. Loved the vocal, made an electronic track with it, very dark - sort of like a soundtrack to the story you're singing about. It's probably not your thing, although I can show you if you like. Happy to make you a copy of the track with just piano, and perhaps some guitar too. I really can't get enough of this song at the moment, sounds awesome.
G'day mate! would love to hear the electronic version, maybe you can share here on Looperman or?
And yes please send me the acoustic version to shamoozey@gmail.com
Thanks Tanertela! Based on a true story, "Frankie and Johnny" (sometimes spelled "Frankie and Johnnie"; also known as "Frankie and Albert" or just "Frankie") is a traditional American popular song. It tells the story of a woman, Frankie, who finds that her man Johnny was making love to another woman and shoots him dead. Frankie is then arrested; in some versions of the song she is also executed.
The song was inspired by one or more actual murders. One of these took place in an apartment building located at 212 Targee Street in St. Louis, Missouri, at 2:00 on the morning of October 15, 1899. Frankie Baker (1876 – 1952),[1] a 22-year-old woman, shot her 17-year-old lover Allen (also known as "Albert") Britt in the abdomen. Britt had just returned from a cakewalk at a local dance hall, where he and another woman, Nelly Bly (also known as "Alice Pryor"), had won a prize in a slow-dancing contest. Britt died of his wounds four days later at the City Hospital.
on She Shot Her Man by Shamoozey
I'll cut a version with piano and guitar and post you a link once it's done.
Thanks mate!
Hayden (also of Irish descent, living in Australia)
on She Shot Her Man by Shamoozey
And yes please send me the acoustic version to shamoozey@gmail.com
Cheers and thanks!
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on She Shot Her Man by Shamoozey
The song was inspired by one or more actual murders. One of these took place in an apartment building located at 212 Targee Street in St. Louis, Missouri, at 2:00 on the morning of October 15, 1899. Frankie Baker (1876 – 1952),[1] a 22-year-old woman, shot her 17-year-old lover Allen (also known as "Albert") Britt in the abdomen. Britt had just returned from a cakewalk at a local dance hall, where he and another woman, Nelly Bly (also known as "Alice Pryor"), had won a prize in a slow-dancing contest. Britt died of his wounds four days later at the City Hospital.