The Roots of Led Zeppelin

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Picked up this Mojo comp in a bargain bin.

1) Little Richard -- Long Tall Sally
2) Garnet Mimms -- As Long As I Have You
3) Robert Johnson -- Travelling Riverside Blues
4) Bukka White -- Shake 'Em On Down
5) Santo & Johnny -- Summertime
6) Bert Jansch -- Blackwater Side
7) John Renbourn -- Nobody's Fault But Mine
8) Spirit -- Fresh Garbage
9) Muddy Waters -- You Need Love
10) Howlin' Wolf -- Killing Floor
11) Blind Willie Johnson -- In My Time of Dying
12) Davey Graham -- She Moved Through The Bazaar/Blue Ragga
13) Joan Baez -- Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
14) John Fahey -- Dance of The Inhabitants ...
15) Owen Hand -- She Likes It

Good comp. I don't get the connection on a few of the tracks though: Is the Little Richard track supposed to be similar to "Rock and Roll"? Aren't there a million tracks that are like that? What about the Garrett Mimms Song? The Santo & Johnny track? Spirit? Everything else seems to be directly related to a specific Zep song or at least stylistically recognizable. Are those other ones artists that Zep cited in interviews?

Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 04:52 (twenty years ago)

Fuck. This was supposed to go in ILM.

Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 04:55 (twenty years ago)

Good luck getting a mod to move it. As you probably already know, the drum pattern for "Rock and Roll" is lifted from "Keep A Knocking," but maybe they couldn't get the rights or maybe they thought it would piss off J!mmy P4ge if they put it on there.

Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 05:09 (twenty years ago)

I forget the name, but I don't see the blind guy they actually stole it all from in this list.

autovac (autovac), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 08:22 (twenty years ago)

David Blunkett?

Masked Gazza, Wednesday, 1 December 2004 08:25 (twenty years ago)


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