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Friday, March 17, 2006
BRING IT ON HOME
Willie Dixon
The Chess Box
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BRING IT ON HOME (Single Version)
Sonny Boy Williamson
1963
Essential Sonny Boy Williamson
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SHAKE EM ON DOWN
Bukka White
1937
Shake 'Em on Down
[Buy it]
WHEN THE LEVEE BREAKS
Kansas Joe & Memphis Minnie
Memphis Minnie: Complete Recorded Works, Vol. 1
1928
[Buy it]
JESUS MAKE UP MY DYING BED
Blind Willie Johnson
1927
The Complete Blind Willie Johnson
[Buy it]
IN MY TIME OF DYIN'
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan (1962)
[Buy it]
IN MY TIME OF DYIN'
The Be Good Tanyas
Chinatown (2003)
[Buy it]
TRAVELLING RIVERSIDE BLUES
Robert Johnson
1937
The Best of Robert Johnson: Traveling Riverside Blues
[Buy it]
I CAN'T QUIT YOU
Otis Rush
1956
Essential Collection: The Classic Cobra Recordings 1956-1958
[Buy it]
THE ARTFUL DODGERS
Led Zeppelin Behind the Music - Day 3 of 3 [part 1] [part 2]
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Today we will close with a group of old blues songs that were covered, some famously, most dramatically, by Led Zeppelin. As far as I know the band is quite open about these covers, but this doesn't mean the original artists always received credit where it counted.
Bring It On Home:
Originally written and recorded by Willie Dixon, whose songbook fueled much of the British blues explosion. The Stones made a hit from "Little Red Rooster." Zeppelin covered "You Shook Me" and "I Can't Quit You Baby" (Led Zeppelin I) and "Bring It On Home" (Led Zeppelin II) and Cream had "Spoonful".
Robert Plant intentionally tried to reproduce the vocal technique Sonny Boy Williamson used in his cover for Zep's musclebound version, singing through a harmonica microphone and amplifier for effect.
Shake Em Down:
"Hats Off To (Roy) Harper" (Led Zep III) is an uncredited version of the old Bukka White song. "Custard Pie" (Physical Graffiti) also contains lyrical similarities.
When The Levee Breaks:
Zeppelin went to school on this one, they locked it in and ripped the knob off, as they might say on classic rock radio. John Bonham's thunderous drumbeat has been sampled a number of times. Zeppelin had the balls to take legal action against the Beastie Boys over it. To record it, they had Bonham move his drum kit into a stairwell.
Jesus Make Up My Dying Bed and In My Time Of Dyin':
This death bed petition first recorded by Blind Willie Johnson in the 1920s (way back, before boomboxes even). Covered beautifully by Dylan at age 20. And then by Zeppelin on Physical Graffiti, which borrows a riff from the Dylan version. Dylan didn't give himself any songwriting credit, but I think Zeppelin did, with no nod to Blind Willie.
Travelling Riverside Blues:
Zeppelin covered this song live in an early BBC recording that appears on the BBC Sessions album. It's a pretty original interpretation. I dont think Johnson's peeps saw any royalties. As previously mentioned, the "Squeeze my lemon" lyrics from "The Lemon Song" are lifted from this tune.
I Can't Quit You:
Another Willie Dixon tune, here covered by Mississippi bluesman Otis Rush. Dixon sued Zeppelin over their uncredited cover of his song on Led Zeppelin I.
Misc Zeppelin Trivia:
Jimmy Page played rhythm guitar on the Kink's songs "You Really Got Me" and "All Day And All Of The Night"
Page also plays on the theme song to "The Wonder Years" (maybe when his agent pitched him he just heard the word "Savage" and bit)
and
the soundtrack to the film "Death Wish II"
and
Joe Cocker's cover of "With A Little Help From My Friends."
In 1970, Zeppelin played a show in Copenhagen. The band billed themselves as The Nobs because aristocrat Eva von Zeppelin threatened legal action. She is claimed to have remarked: "They may be world famous, but a couple of shrieking monkeys are not going to use a priveleged family name without permission".Labels: James
posted by James
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