Who’s News In New Orleans Escorts.

NORMALLY in this column, I’d tell you about the writer of this chart topping hit, but the origins of this song are far from clear.
It seems it’s an American folk song, and tells of a life gone wrong in New Orleans.
Some scholars say that it is based on the tradition of broadside ballads such as the Unfortunate Rake of the 18th century which were taken to America by early settlers. Many of these had the theme of “if only” and after a period of evolution, they emerge as American songs like Streets of Laredo.
Alan Price of The Animals has claimed that the song was originally a 16th-century English folk song about a Soho brothel, and that English emigrants took the song to America where it was adapted to its later New Orleans setting.

See the full article from “Liverpool Echo”