title=”Bathing Beauty” – photo by im pastor rick, kindly sent to my group BLOG IT!, click on the picture to enter his galleries on Flickr.com
me, my guitar and the kazoo, storytelling without a single word …
I’ve heard many versions of the song “The House of the Rising Sun”. The early versions by Leadbelly, Josh White, Libby Holman, Texas Alexander, Odetta. Then Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Doc Watson, Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, The Animals / Eric Burdon, The Beatles. Also The Doors, Dolly Parton, Pink Floyd, Muse, Duran Duran, Bon Jovi, The Ventures, Gary Glitter, Tori Amos, Jimi Hendrix, Frijid Pink, Led Zeppelin, Ten Years After, Santa Esmeralda.
Then the great voices (after Joan Baez): Nina Simone, Odetta, Georgia Turner, Mary Hopkin, Tracy Chapman, Sinead O’Connor (!!!). But most of all (as a guitarist) I was impressed by: Tommy Emmanuel. I heard him life in Berlin last year. I like this old guitar he prefers to play with. He told us, the instrument is from his father. But he tuned it up: some various modern microphone-systems are built in now…
now the best version ever heard (enjoyed that live in BERLIN):
related:
http://bumbastories.wordpress.com/2012/10/03/house-of-the-rising-sun-challenge/
Nina Simone’s very fast version:
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