Lead Belly - "House of the Rising Sun"

This video features Lead Belly's "House of the Rising Sun" from the 2015 box set 'Lead Belly: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection'. For more information about this album, click here: www.folkways.si... and for more information about Smithsonian Folkways, the non-profit record label of the national museum, click here: folkways.si.edu....

[@ecwwwrasslin7663]

Such a treasure of a recording by a great artist

[@bcuz2975]

Janis Joplin said she used to listen to Lead Belly and got hooked on blues.

[@shodanart]

Why is no one posting Leadbelly singing this?
In the title there NO mention of his wife.
Leadbelly’ voice on this in a CD I own is spectacular. If I knew how to post it I would.

[@zillakamikaze5551]

Shoot I'll help, I'd love to hear it!

[@lyallg7925]

There is another upload of him singing it.

[@Mistralok]

This was the first song that I ever put a coin into to play in a small place in Moore, OK. Granted, it was the version by a certain Engish band, and Lead Belly was not the one who wrote it, but this is one of the better versions.

[@adamchandler8512]

To me this is one of the best versions out there i know lots of people have sing this song but most of them do a good job at this song but no one can top Lead Belly on this one thit's what i think

[@monikerdenada6093]

You're right, this is the best version. It's got a raw feeling to it, he's a legend in music.

[@Tonyplat98]

that's his wife singing the song not lead belly.....

[@armandogonella2770]

T H E G E N I U S ! ! !

[@savannahw112]

This is his wife

[@philiprobinson256]

What's interesting about this version besides the completely different lyrics to the versions we know well is that it's played in 3/4 time rather than the usual 12/8 which gives a slightly different feel to the song.

[@al_l6418]

It´s his wife who is singing

[@LifeInNewRoad]

This is the 1948 recording. There is an older one from 1944.

[@gerhardvanderwesthuizen1261]

This version is apparently sung by his wife.

[@l2string]

Pretty sure it's the 1941 session.

[@general5886]

@@gerhardvanderwesthuizen1261 really? that sure does sound alot like the great elizabeth cotton

[@georgekeyes4429]

Correct

[@jeandeblaize4175]

Version - presque - des origines, à tendre l'oreille.
σοφια

[@Rxmzy]

Here me out...
Joker dancing to this song by Leadbelly 😊

[@puolopappina9979]

he not only heard of it but of the "house of the rising sun" he was a frequent visitor

[@DaPlayerzPt]

Funny thing its his singing, this songs name is In new orleans

[@8sins236]

This version is sung by his wife. You can hear him say at 1:14 "let my baby sing" The version were leadbelly himself sings is called In New Orleans.

[@stanislawchalicki6238]

The protagonist in the song is a woman, trapped in a miserable life of sexual slavery. Leadbelly's "TB Blues" gives more of the gruesome details, and many girls died of it still in their teenage years.

[@lynettekomidar]

A musician friend thinks that this may be Leadbelly's wife, what do you think?

[@lynettekomidar]

Leadbelly, I have a fondness for him as he was my introduction to the world of blues

[@Tonyplat98]

it's definitelly his wife lol he even says "let my baby sing"

[@ProfesserLuigi]

Sounds like blues to me.

[@lynettekomidar]

This is folk

[@ProfesserLuigi]

@@lynettekomidar Folk blues, then.

[@thepikafan123]

Didn't he kill someone or am I thinking of a different musian

[@patriciamccann1684]

This is not Leadbelly.

[@andygarcia5978]

It's his wife.

[@mariesmith1181]

Thats a woman singing. Not Leadbelly.