AT LAST MY EARLY PET IS VINDICATED

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Fuck.  Yeah. 

I always felt Haley Reinhart had potential, but early on she did not know what the fuck she was doing.  I think doing duets with Casey Abrams helped her find her musical footing. 

Also, I was not overly familiar with the song before, but BRB getting every single version of it now.  Fascinating history, as it's a genuine folk song, author unknown:

The gender of the singer is flexible. Earlier versions of the song are often sung from the female perspective, a woman who followed a drunk or a gambler to New Orleans and became a prostitute in the House of the Rising Sun (or, depending on one's interpretation, an inmate in a prison of the same name), such as in Joan Baez's version on her self-titled 1960 debut album, as was Jody Miller's 1973 single. The Animals version was sung from a perspective of a male, warning about gambling and drinking. Bob Dylan's 1962 version and Shawn Mullins' recent covered version on his album 9th Ward Pickin' Parlor is sung from the female perspective.

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Btw, I have a hard time accessing LJ now that my VPN is expired. Only get basic HTML, which fucks up the layout/formatting/whatever, and it takes at least five minutes to load anything.

Sorry my comments lately are like "You don't know that????" I swear I have more substantial things to say... just no time. :P

I like the song better from the girl's perspective, though I wish I had a girl singing it...

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It's cool, it's cool.

Well, Dolly Parton sings it, and Marianne Faithful (I like her version - not so much a fan of Dolly's), but I don't have her version unfortunately. If I run across any good ones I'll send them your way.

My mom saw your UNL app, btw. She got all excited.