The Callahan Brothers - Rounder's Luck (Rising Sun Blues)

The Callahan Brothers - Rounder's Luck, one of the first recorded versions of House of the Rising Sun.
April 11, 1935 on Matrix No. 17289-2
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[@VStaskey]

The Callahan Brothers, Bill (Homer) and Joe (Walter) are my great-uncle and grandfather, respectively. There are now several generations of the Callahan's living, and most of us are musicians. I love that their hillbilly music is still of interest to historians and lovers of early bluegrass.

[@chezztone]

Do you sing this song? Would be great to hear.

[@seilerbird100]

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[@LongTallYamlaJay]

Here's the thing about youtube: we'll always see amateurish comparisons b/w apples, oranges, and biebers. That and cliches like the one I used in the last sentence.
I am thankful for this posting. It's beautiful, as is almost every major version I've heard: Leadbelly, Josh White, Dylan, the Animals, and Doc Watson's.

[@nolmanimates3031]

All recordings are priceless

[@MartinBlanford]

Thanks for posting. I'd heard of this one but hadn't been able to find it. According to wikipedia (not neccesarily the absolute authority) the oldest known recording is by Tom Ashley & Gwen Foster from 1934. It's ridiculous that some knock The Animals for ripping off the song when every rendition done by any artist is a version of older ones.

[@AnthonyRamirez0]

This is a priceless piece of American culture.

[@TheAmadeusprod]

Please, keeping doing this excellent favor to the musicology!!! Many thanks!!! Do not Care from the capitalists and Money return...

A rarity. . . Amazing version of a classic song!

[@MrWonderkid118]

Just because this was before the Animals, doesn't mean the Animals are like Justin Bieber. The Animals made this song famous and if it wasn't for them, you probably would have never commented on this.

[@Tylerjamesnall]

This is FANTASTIC!!!!!

[@aerocite]

WOW I LOVE THIS VERSION!
BUT THE ANIMALS STILL ARE NO.1 FOR THIS SONG :)

[@gpapscorpion]

Awesome masterpiece.Many thanks for sharing

[@nikolayvasilyev8655]

удивительно, как фантастически преобразовалась песня! Трогателно, но Энималз и Джорли вне конкуренции.

[@maykoncosta9338]

Nikolay Vasilyev que merda que voce ta falando ai seu bosta

[@maxs3347]

Спасибо братьям Каллаханам за легендарный базовый материал, но Animals, конечно, все равно лучше

[@angelluna9599]

I'd like to hear your version :)

[@animalupus2263]

для лехи

[@joesubscriber]

Well, they copied it from Dylan who got it from Dave van Ronk who got it from Leadbelly, etc. Why give credit to Erick Burton's rock band from the UK?

[@derekcole6632]

David O'Brien gwen foster wrote it 1937. Lomax heard it from 16 year old Georgia Turner. He took it to new york. Showed lead Billy and the village. Later dave van ronk arrangements of the song made what we know today after Dylan recorded it behind him. Good friends. Dave laughed it off. Animals commercialization of the song is its most known arrangement.

[@martincouch3723]

😂🤣😂
It's Lead Belly, two words.
Gwen Foster AND Clarence Ashley RECORDED IT in 1933, Foster didn't write it. It's documented at least as early as '25 by Robert Winslow Gordon.