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Memphis Minnie and Kansas Joe McCoy

When the Levee Breaks
1929 · via Robert Plant
Memphis Minnie and Kansas Joe McCoy – When the Levee Breaks
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Plant shares that credit with Memphis Minnie, and the first recording of it is hers, cut with Kansas Joe McCoy back in 1929. Play that one first, then go back to the version you thought you knew.

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Liner notes

Written by John Bonham, John Paul Jones, Memphis Minnie, Jimmy Page, Robert Plant.

First recorded by Memphis Minnie and Kansas Joe McCoy in 1929.

Also recorded by Great White (1999), Gov’t Mule (2020), W.A.S.P. (1992), Stream of Passion (2006), John Paul Jones, Paul Gilbert (2004).

How you get here
"When the Levee Breaks" credits Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones and John Bonham, plus one more writer who was on record with it first. Who?Memphis Minnie
a knot from Robert Plant · next: Memphis Minnie
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