Sunday, March 20, 2005

The Appalachian roots of the House of the Rising Sun

Via Yahoo News, this news story chronicles the Appalachian roots of the House of the Rising Sun, and the current efforts to locate such a place in New Orleans.

The story says:

The first known recording of the song was made in 1937, when a music historian named Alan Lomax learned it from a miner's daughter in Kentucky. It was then known as the "Rising Sun Blues."

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