The Rising Sun Blues
Title
The Rising Sun Blues
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 May 23, 2025, https://lomaxky.omeka.net/items/show/518.