Leadbelly - Rising Sun Blues

[ThePastryDiva]

The last verse states he's going back to spend the rest of his life 'neath the Rising Sun...so this version even though speaks of a life gone wrong is NOT about a Brothel? The Rising Sun could refer to doing time on a chain gang???

[computerfis]

actually no one knows where the song came from?

[TheBestMusicOnly]

The Animals didnt just play this song in a minor mode, they arrpegiated the chords.Very difficult to play on guitar especially with the bass added into the chords. Ol Leadbelly does just strums the chords here. Im not sayin of course that the Animals version was better just more complex. I love to hear Leadbelly choppin the guitar chords he strums like hes gotta be somewhere and has to leave soon...

[howlingsandy]

He has recordings of this song done at least 3 different tunes and rhythms

[Caprock64]

This is also known Risin' Hell Blues. An Old Time hill song.

[boothl232]

I don't care about majors and minors. I know what I like and I like both versions (and some others such as Ray Philips and the British Invasion Allstars.) As a white hillbilly kid growing up I didn't get to hear to much of the blues by black musicians, so my exposure was to the Stones & Clapton etc. What matters is that I got exposed and that made me curious as to the roots. I love Leadbelly, & Muddy Waters & Little Walter etc. I'm just glad I can listen to awesome music.

[zkafel]

Bob Dylan's version predates The Animals' version, and Dave Van Ronk showed Dylan the version he did.

[TheIsraDave]

wow, what a killer

[CainmosniMirrored]

Some of his recordings were recorded on wax cylinders, It is amazing that we even get to hear the actual music of a such a legend let alone video of him.

[sukisteeltoes]

original recording was 1932 not 33

[Catoni52]

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. The song could originally have been a sixteenth-century English folk song about a Soho brothel, and taken to America by settlers and adapted to a New Orleans setting. Best version? ? The Animals - 1964

[phdseuss]

i never even knew leadbelly did this song ... guess the animals werent the first to record it after all

[theblahman]

@phdseuss actually even Bob Dylan had a version before the Animals, which he was even criticised for doing as a recent cover had just been released by someone else just before him, although i do agrre that the Animals version changed subsequent version for ever

[jeffl56]

Thanks for posting this...

[Khamomil]

It was a group called "the Animals" that made a hit out of this song in the 60s. The success was due to the intro where the 4 chords were played in arpeggio with a good deal of reverb. It was a nice chord progression.

lmmediately the song was covered in many languages including French with lyrics following loosely the original ones. Every guitar player who could play 4 chords would play it and I got sick of it, like one gets sick of every good thing done to excess.

[Khamomil]

An important difference between the Leadbelly original and the Animals' version is that the Animals did the song in the minor mode, whereas Leadbelly's is in the Major mode.

[SirDaniloOliveira]

But I heard that this song is really older than this version and nobody knows its origin. It seens that it came from old english sailors songs.

[Tubascope]

It is a true folk song.

[cryingsoftly]

That was only proposed by the animals. more probable is that it arose from the same family of folk songs that produced the streets of laredo.

[engeleefsting]

This song from what I have heard is dating from back in the 17th Century from Afrika.

14 here btw :P

[SqueezeMyLemonBabe]

@engeleefsting good that you've been exposed to this music so young and that gives you lots of years to develop your taste and etc., but I dont think many people honestly care about your age.

[kilogreim]

@Khamomil leadbelly's is not the original

[jazzmasterjesus]

@Khamomil how is that an important difference? it is so insignificant.

[EblockShorty]

@jazzmasterjesus You can't hear the difference between the two versions? One is the true roots of the music that the other is exploiting. That cheesy minor progression

makes me squirm with embarrassment, so pretentious and inappropriate! Is it an inevitable consequence of using a Hammond organ, I wonder.

[7734Duke]

@Khamomil the Animals took the guitar riff from Bob Dylan who took it from Dave Von Ronk

[shakyjoel]

leadbelly is the influeance for most major songs so do so some fucking history before yeah mouth off\

[metyuewb]

I'm going back to spend the rest of my life...OVER!!! ooh what happened?

[huddiefan]

i have a other version of this on my channel.

please visit

[steazyt]

hahahahahahahahaha lead belly covers rolling stones. i tried giving you a thumbs down but youtube only allows 6 people to dislike your comment.

[Reibusu]

Me too. You've just got to laugh or you'd cry.

[Ieatbabyseals]

That's when Mashed Potatoes Jefferson done wrote that there woman done run over my heart with a train blues.

[dontdewcriz]

not THAT is leadbelly.. the legend

[JimiyDoorsHamelech1]

leadbelly covers rollingstones? news to me

[thekomrade]

lol...

[Chickenhawk9932]

pardon that man!

[jessupar]

sessionsinthedesert have some respect. try a store?

[warsdead]

just enjoy the music

[slavnotslave]

Why do we quarrel about different versions? They are all beautiful in their own way. Thanks for posting this, Leadbelly was quite unique!

[GissleGoss]

leadbelly the real deal,fuck limewire,go to piratebay

[modemeyes]

Original version better than the Animals version of the mid 60s

[Blucius13]

well this aint the original version. This song is older than Leadbelly

[stacyblue1980]

yes it is. MUCH older. Smart people know this. x

[MrThedalaillamaknows]

@Blucius13 he did say 'one of the original recordings' for a reason you know.

[jimmyn321]

this version I still like better

[AbuAvital]

Try Google!!

[HaniiPuppy]

It's been around for centuries as a folk song.

[CONNOOORRLAAAA]

you fucking ignoramus

[sessionsinthedesert]

where could i get this song?

[011180russell]

On limewire leadbelly under blues

[MakeLoveNotWar617]

LEADBELLY dose the best version of the song but this is only half the song and not the best recording of leadbellys version. i think he did it in 1925 if sao its the best music ever made before 1955 go to limewire to get the better longer version

[therockingviking]

love it--thanks so much!

[Calandir]

5 stars !

[Jesuslovespunk]

Sweet!

[bergenhaus]

Hi. Thanks for this! When was this version recorded? I was looking up the origins of the song on wikipedia. What do you think about what it says?

Cheers,

Al Fresco

[donthavenosn]

the best version of this song, is there a full version?

[jherb69]

nice one!

[Bagmen3]

LeadBelly. Gotta love him.

[littlequeen64]

love it!

[mark2299]

Very cool