Doc Watson & Clarence Ashley - House of the Rising sun

Actually called Rising Sun Blues recorded in the 60s. Clarence Ashley as far as I know was the second artist to record "house of the Rising sun" First in 1934 with Tom Foster and the first ever recording by Tex Alexander in 1928 but I couldn't find either of them anywhere.
The songs original author is unknown but probably written by early European settlers in New Orleans.

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[RilakosSs]

it's not even the second recording...leadbelly and many other earlier artists sung it...

[coolbritannia7]

Leadbelly recorded the song in late 1948,Doc Watson & Clarence Ashley first recorded it 14 years before that in1934 the same year leadbelly started recorded his first songs.

[PlanetOfMu]

the info is wrong...The Tex Alexander song is a completely different song...you should change the info as this mistake was mentioned before..beside the version with Tom Foster was recorded in 1933...thanks for sharing this song..greets

[anonymees]

underground shit is easier to find now, with the internet, more than ever. you're just not with it.

[Masterpiece55555]

@coolbritannia7 i just read that ashley sad that he learnd this song by his grandfather we he was a kind and that its presumable that the song originated from a british folk- and childbalade named Matthy Groves, witch was firstly writed down in 1658.

this is what german wikipedia sad, sorry for my bad english

[Romamb]

@coolbritannia7 u on drugs? doc watson was born in 1923! he sure didnt record this when he was eleven.......stop messing about, eh.

[neotenousape]

@PlanetOfMu The Tex Alexander song recorded in 1928 was Rising Sun Blues. It is on here too, unfortunately mis-labelled as House of the Rising Sun, but when you listen to it you will know it isn't the same song.

[neotenousape]

@haytossr Some say 1933. Whenever it was recorded, it is on YouTube, and it's in quite a different style. There's a picture with it of (hopefully) Clarence Ashley as a younger man in a straw boater and Oxford bags (baggie trousers that were in fashion back then). For some reason he was clutching a record as well as his guitar, maybe indicating it was taken after he had cut a recording (although whether it was that one, who knows).

[haytossr]

@coolbritannia7

Doc Watson was born in 1923. He would have been 11 years old in 34. I very much doubt he had met Clarence Ashley yet tho Doc's first record (recorded in 1960) was "Old Time Music at Clarence Ashley's" recorded in 1960-61.

Ashley did record a version in 1934 but it was a solo.

[PharaohII]

Sounds to white country popish for it to be the original that came out of new Orleans. The song from its words clearly states " ITS SELF " comes out of the blues. Which originated where and by who..? so know this a bite off the original.

[naditales]

de puta madre...... excelente!!!

[stevetatega]

doc is great any time

[RustyCageMusic]

@coolbritannia7 Doc watson must have been pretty young back in 1934.