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House Of The Rising Sun by Leadbelly

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Huddie Ledbetter Artist Leadbelly Or Lead Belly January 20 1888 - December 6 1949 Was An Iconic American Folk And Blues Musician And Multi-Instrumentalist Notable For His Strong Vocals His Virtuosity On The Twelve-String Guitar And The Songbook Of Folk Standards He Introduced. Although Lead Belly Most Commonly Played The Twelve-String He Could Also Play The Piano Mandolin Harmonica Violin And Accordion. In Some Of His Recordings Such As In One Of His Versions Of The Folk Ballad "John Hardy" He Performs On The Accordion Instead Of The Guitar. In Other Recordings He Just Sings While Clapping His Hands Or Stomping His Foot.
The Topics Of Lead Belly's Music Covered A Wide Range Of Subjects Including Gospel Songs Blues Songs About Women Liquor Prison Life And Racism And Folk Songs About Cowboys Prison Work Sailors Cattle Herding And Dancing. He Also Wrote Songs Concerning The Newsmakers Of The Day Such As Franklin D. Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Jean Harlow The Scottsboro Boys And Howard Hughes.
In 2008 Lead Belly Was Inducted Into The Louisiana Music Hall Of Fame. Though Many Of His Posthumous Releases List Him As "Leadbelly " He Himself Spelled It "Lead Belly." This Is Also The Usage On Most Of His Original Records Tombstone As Well As Of The Lead Belly Foundation. Leadbelly Was Born In Mooringsport Louisiana And Spent Time In And Out Of Prison Most Of His Life. In 1933 Serving A Sentence For Attempted Murder Musicologists John And Alan Lomax "discovered" Him On A Field Recording Tour Sponsored By The Library Of Congress. That Summer He Was Pardoned By The Governor Of Lousiana After Recording His Plea For Pardon On A Record Together With "Good Night Irene". Leadbelly Went On To Make Hundreds Of Recordings Of All Sorts Of Different Songs Country Blues Spirituals Reels And Work Chants. His Songs Have Been Covered By Mark Lanegan The Animals Creedence Clearwater Revival Nirvana Lonnie Donegan Johnny Cash Gene Autry The Beach Boys Led Zeppelin British Sea Power Ram Jam Ry Cooder Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds Half Man Half Biscuit Tom Waits Shocking Blue The White Stripes Long John Baldry. Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame Biography Lead Belly Biography
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Lead Belly Recorded Two Versions Of The Song In February 1944 And In October 1948 Called "In New Orleans" And "The House Of The Rising Sun" Respectively And The Latter Was Recorded In The Sessions That Later Became The Album Lead Belly's Last Sessions 1994 Smithsonian Folkways .
Alan Price Of The Animals Has Claimed That The Song Was Originally A Sixteenth-Century English Folk Song About A Soho Brothel And That English Emigrants Took The Song To America Where It Was Adapted To Its Later New Orleans Setting.
The Oldest Known Existing Recording Is By Appalachian Artists Clarence Ashley And Gwen Foster And Was Made In 1933. Ashley Said He Had Learned It From His Grandfather Enoch Ashley. Alger "Texas" Alexander's "The Risin' Sun " Recorded In 1928 Is Sometimes Mentioned As The First Recording But Is A Completely Different Song.
The Song Might Have Been Lost To Obscurity Had It Not Been Collected By Folklorist Alan Lomax Who Along With His Father Was A Curator Of The Archive Of American Folk Song For The Library Of Congress. On An Expedition With His Wife To Eastern Kentucky Lomax Set Up His Recording Equipment In Middlesborough Kentucky In The House Of A Singer And Activist Called Tilman Cadle. On September 15 1937 He Recorded A Performance By Georgia Turner The 16 Year-Old Daughter Of A Local Miner. He Called It "The Risin' Sun Blues." Lomax Later Recorded A Different Version Sung By Bert Martin And A Third Sung By Daw Henson Both Eastern Kentucky Singers. In His 1941 Songbook Our Singing Country Lomax Credits The Lyrics To Turner With Reference To Martin's Version. According To His Later Writing The Melody Bears Similarities To The Traditional English Ballad "Matty Groves."
Roy Acuff Who Recorded The Song On November 3 1938 May Have Learned The Song From Clarence Ashley With Whom He Sometimes Performed. In 1941 Woody Guthrie Recorded A Version. A Recording Made In 1947 By Josh White Who Is Also Credited With Having Written New Words And Music That Have Subsequently Been Popularized In The Versions Made By Many Other Later Artists Was Released By Mercury Records In 1950. Lead Belly Recorded Two Versions Of The Song In February 1944 And In October 1948 Called "In New Orleans" And "The House Of The Rising Sun" Respectively And The Latter Was Recorded In The Sessions That Later Became The Album Lead Belly's Last Sessions 1994 Smithsonian Folkways .

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