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Tab request: Leadbelly's 'New Orleans'

22 Feb 00 - 09:24 AM (#182708)
Subject: Tab request: Leadbelly's 'New Orleans'
From: GUEST,derik

I am trying to find a transcription for guitar of Leadbelly's "New Orleans." Can anyone help?


23 Feb 00 - 01:19 AM (#183174)
Subject: RE: Tab request: Leadbelly's 'New Orleans'
From: Metchosin


16 Dec 03 - 08:59 PM (#1074164)
Subject: RE: Tab request: Leadbelly's 'New Orleans'
From: GUEST,Chaz

yeah, i want these tabs too...


22 Dec 04 - 01:56 PM (#1363366)
Subject: RE: Tab request: Leadbelly's 'New Orleans'
From: GUEST,dan guest

same here


23 Dec 04 - 07:08 AM (#1363944)
Subject: RE: Tab request: Leadbelly's 'New Orleans'
From: Peace

House of the Rising Sun?


28 Dec 04 - 08:10 AM (#1365810)
Subject: RE: Tab request: Leadbelly's 'New Orleans'
From: GUEST,Roger in Baltimore

As Brucie asked, are you looking for Lead Belly's "House of the Rising Sun' or maybe some other tune like "Fanning Street"?

Roger in Baltimore


28 Dec 04 - 11:25 AM (#1365942)
Subject: RE: Tab request: Leadbelly's 'New Orleans'
From: Sorcha

Would you settle for either Arlo or Steve Goodman's City of N.O.?


28 Dec 04 - 05:38 PM (#1366227)
Subject: RE: Tab request: Leadbelly's 'New Orleans'
From: 12-stringer

It's really "House of the Rising Sun," but it's called "In New Orleans" on the old 78 (Musicraft, I think, without looking it up) and on all the LP/CD reissues of it. I had this on a Sutton LP from the 60s, the first Leadbelly record I ever owned, purchased for 77 cents out of a bargain bin at G C Murphys. ("Leadbelly Sings Songs of Bad Men and Beautiful Women, with the Satin Strings," 8 tracks in all.)

The thread at the top of the page, "Leadbelly Chords," contains several posts about the song, including a good description of the guitar part by Steve-O.

Tab for the song is in Julius Lester's "12-String Guitar as Played by Leadbelly," an Oak book from the 60s, but NB that he only tabs the first half of the guitar break. The second half is the same, except for the last two or three notes -- easy to work out if you know the first half, as it just resolves back to the tonic, where the first half ends on the dominant.

It's in G but the progression is slightly unusual, and the bass runs are what make it.


20 Sep 07 - 01:29 AM (#2153215)
Subject: RE: Tab request: Leadbelly's 'New Orleans'
From: GUEST

The Original House of Rising Sun is In New Orleans and the lyrics is even differend! there is no house in it's lyrics! it starts as : Big dawn in new Orleans they call the rising sun ... !