Long before #LedZeppelin's [unattributed / stolen] cover...
#KansasJoeMcCoy and #MemphisMinnie When the Levee Breaks - Famous 1927 #MississippiRiverFlood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swhEa8vuP6U
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Original recorded version of the song later made famous by Led Zeppelin. I made the slide show from a combination of pictures of the artists and pictures of...
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#The5Ws - Who ? What? When ? Where ? Why ?
1 / Gene Vincent & The Blue Caps - Who slapped John ? (1956) : https://song.link/fr/i/724357857
"Baby, who slapped John when the lights went low-oh?"
2/ Nekromantix - What's on your neighboor's BBQ ? (2004) : https://song.link/fr/i/1485050331
"When he borrowed my chainsaw
He was pretty nice"🤷🏽♂️
3/ Kansas Joe McCoy & Memphis Minnie - When the Levee Breaks (1929) : https://song.link/fr/i/274405494
La 1ère version oui, sur la grande inondation de 1927
4/ The Unrelated Segments - Where you gonna go ? (1967) : https://www.discogs.com/fr/master/772358-The-Unrelated-Segments-Where-You-Gonna-Go?
Morceau à l'intro parfaite, pour un groupe à la très courte mais parfaite discographie.
5/ Little Richard - Oh Why ? (sur son tout 1er album magique Here's Little Richard, 1957) : https://song.link/fr/i/1440936760
jappements inclus !
#GeneVincentAndTheBlueCaps #RockNRoll #Rockabilly #Nekromantix #Psychobilly #KansasJoeMcCoy #MemphisMinnie #DeltaBlues #GreatMississippiRiverFlood #UnrelatedSegments #GarageRock #LittleRichard #RhythmNBlues #SpecialtyRecords
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When all is too much, #Blues still heals and helps me...
When the #levee breaks.
I do not post the #LedZeppelin -Version (which is still eternal for me), because it's quite well known, I guess. Instead an excellent all-female cover from #Zepparella – because, little known: in the original version from 1929 from #KansasJoeMcCoy and #MemphisMinnie a woman, Minnie, plays the guitar! One of the first female electric guitarists!
Down with #patriarchy!
Yep. It’s Zepp time here on deck and one of their blues covers.
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Episode twenty-seven is up now! Today's song is When The Levee Breaks by Led Zeppelin.
I discuss how the song is and isn't really a cover, and the iconic drum sound of John Bonham.
https://youtu.be/RYaqjAME-GU?si=OxRDZpL4ue7Bx_yV
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Having written a paragraph I’m particularly proud of, I got lost in finding something to so that I could keep pace. I reached for one of my favorites, “When The Levee Breaks” done by Led Zeppelin.
Like most things I like, it has a history that I’ve drilled down into. This song just drives through emotion, plodding through the mud with purpose, with a steady rhythm regardless of what comes. It’s grounding. You’re in the ‘suck’, but you keep moving at a very primal level.
The history goes back to 1927.
The Great Mississippi flood of 1927 has a pretty thorough Wikipedia page. It was the most destructive river flood in the United States. Imagine 27,000 square miles in water up to 30 feet in depth. 500 dead, 630,000 people affected. Population density was lower then.
It’s a song born of, “well this sucks, but I’ll make it through”.
https://realityfragments.com/2024/05/20/when-the-levee-breaks/
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"Cryin' won't help you, prayin' won't do you no good /
No, cryin' won't help you, prayin' won't do you no good /
When the levee breaks, mama, you got to move..." - "When the Levee Breaks," by #MemphisMinnie and #KansasJoeMcCoy in 1929, covered by #LedZeppelin in 1971.
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