The Rising Sun Blues
Dublin Core
Title
The Rising Sun Blues
Alan Lomax Recording Item Type Metadata
Digital Object
Alternate Titles
The House of the Rising Sun
Performer
Turner, Georgia
Date Recorded
1937-09-15
AFS Number
1404A1
AFC Collection
AFC 1937/001
AFC Catalog Record
Genre
lyric song
Instrumentation
vocal
State
Kentucky
County
Bell
Town
Middlesboro
Is Referenced by
Originally:
Lomax, John A., Alan Lomax, and Ruth Crawford Seeger. Our Singing Country: A Second Volume of American Folk Songs and Ballads. The Macmillan Company, 1941.
(Includes transcriptions.)
Lomax, John A., Alan Lomax, and Ruth Crawford Seeger. Our Singing Country: A Second Volume of American Folk Songs and Ballads. The Macmillan Company, 1941.
(Includes transcriptions.)
Currently as:
Lomax, John A., Alan Lomax, and Ruth Crawford Seeger. Our Singing Country: A Second Volume of American Folk Songs and Ballads. Dover, 2000.
Collection
Citation
“The Rising Sun Blues,” Alan Lomax Kentucky Recordings, accessed March 6, 2026, https://lomaxky.omeka.net/items/show/518.