Songs That Shaped Led Zeppelin / Various (Uk)- Songs That Shaped Led Zeppelin / Various (Uk) (CD)
Songs That Shaped Led Zeppelin / Various (Uk)- Songs That Shaped Led Zeppelin / Various (Uk) (CD)
When LED ZEPPELIN first emerged, in 1968, New Musical Express?scribe Charles Shaar Murray famously hailed their playing?style as "Blues on steroids". Rolling Stone later called them "The heaviest band of all time", "The biggest band of the Seventies" and "One of the most enduring bands in Rock history". However, their "adaptations" of various Blues and R&R classics frequently landed them in trouble, for breaches of copyright, which led to several well-publicised court cases. This compilation presents twenty-eight prime examples of Led Zeppelin's roots, with the emphasis very much on those Blues icons - Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Robert Johnson, Otis Rush, Blind Willie Johnson, Sleepy John Estes, etc - whose tunes they played on steroids. Plus, songs they purloined/borrowed from R&R icons like Eddie Cochran, The Johnny Burnette Trio, Little Richard, Bo Diddley, etc.
Tracklist:
- Joan Baez - Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
- Muddy Waters - You Shook Me
- Eddie Cochran - Nervous Breakdown
- Otis Rush - I Can't Quit You Baby
- Howlin Wolf - How Many More Years
- Howlin' Wolf - No Place to Go
- Muddy Waters - You Need Love
- Robert Johnson - Travelling Riverside Blues
- Bobby Parker - Watch Your Step
- Lead Belly - the Gallis Pole
- Fred Gerlach - Gallows Pole
- Bukka White - Shake 'Em on Down
- Ray Charles - I Got a Woman
- Joe Liggins - the Honeydripper
- Little Richard - Keep A-Knockin'
- Memphis Minnie ; Kansas Joe McCoy - When the Levee Breaks
- Sleepy John Estes - Drop Down Mama
- Blind Boy Fuller - I Want Some of Your Pie
- Blind Willie Johnson - Jesus Make Up My Dying Bed
- Robert Johnson - Terraplane Blues
- Ritchie Valens - Ooh, My Head
- Blind Willie Johnson - It's Nobody's Fault But Mine
- Robert Wilkins - That's No Way to Get Along
- The Johnny Burnette Trio - the Train Kept A-Rollin'
- Sleepy John Estes - the Girl I Love, She Got Long Curly Hair
- Bukka White - Fixin' to Die Blues
- Bo Diddley - I'm a Man
- Little Richard - Long Tall Sally
UPC > 604988332124
Format > New CD
Label > Jasmine Records
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When LED ZEPPELIN first emerged, in 1968, New Musical Express?scribe Charles Shaar Murray famously hailed their playing?style as "Blues on steroids". Rolling Stone later called them "The heaviest band of all time", "The biggest band of the Seventies" and "One of the most enduring bands in Rock history". However, their "adaptations" of various Blues and R&R classics frequently landed them in trouble, for breaches of copyright, which led to several well-publicised court cases. This compilation presents twenty-eight prime examples of Led Zeppelin's roots, with the emphasis very much on those Blues icons - Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Robert Johnson, Otis Rush, Blind Willie Johnson, Sleepy John Estes, etc - whose tunes they played on steroids. Plus, songs they purloined/borrowed from R&R icons like Eddie Cochran, The Johnny Burnette Trio, Little Richard, Bo Diddley, etc.
Tracklist:
- Joan Baez - Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
- Muddy Waters - You Shook Me
- Eddie Cochran - Nervous Breakdown
- Otis Rush - I Can't Quit You Baby
- Howlin Wolf - How Many More Years
- Howlin' Wolf - No Place to Go
- Muddy Waters - You Need Love
- Robert Johnson - Travelling Riverside Blues
- Bobby Parker - Watch Your Step
- Lead Belly - the Gallis Pole
- Fred Gerlach - Gallows Pole
- Bukka White - Shake 'Em on Down
- Ray Charles - I Got a Woman
- Joe Liggins - the Honeydripper
- Little Richard - Keep A-Knockin'
- Memphis Minnie ; Kansas Joe McCoy - When the Levee Breaks
- Sleepy John Estes - Drop Down Mama
- Blind Boy Fuller - I Want Some of Your Pie
- Blind Willie Johnson - Jesus Make Up My Dying Bed
- Robert Johnson - Terraplane Blues
- Ritchie Valens - Ooh, My Head
- Blind Willie Johnson - It's Nobody's Fault But Mine
- Robert Wilkins - That's No Way to Get Along
- The Johnny Burnette Trio - the Train Kept A-Rollin'
- Sleepy John Estes - the Girl I Love, She Got Long Curly Hair
- Bukka White - Fixin' to Die Blues
- Bo Diddley - I'm a Man
- Little Richard - Long Tall Sally
UPC > 604988332124
Format > New CD
Label > Jasmine Records
Shop online at Darkside Records.
Follow us on Instagram.
