The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #71160 Message #2209869
Posted By: Mark Ross
06-Dec-07 - 01:45 PM
Thread Name: Which Genre is it? (House of the Rising Sun)
Subject: RE: Which Genre is it? (House of the Rising Sun)
According to Van Ronk, he saw a picture of a Rising Sun carved in stone. It hung over the doorway to the women's jailhouse in NO. He also once told me that he learned the song off a recording of Hally Wood.