A song is written, and, if it’s special enough, it hangs around waiting for an artist to claim it, putting their indelible stamp on it so that all other versions are henceforth compared to that one ...

The legendary blues song “The House of the Rising Sun” is one of those tunes with a murky origin story. Who wrote it? Was there a single person to do so? It’s unclear. The traditional folk song is ...

Nobody is quite sure how old "The House Of The Rising Sun" is. The song might refer to an old women's prison in Louisiana or to a brothel that was open in New Orleans in the 1860s and '70s, though ...