Artist: Various
Album: The Roots of Led Zeppelin
Genre: Blues Rock
Label: Proper Records
Released: 2009
Quality: mp3, 320 kbps
Tracklist:
- When The Levee Breaks:
- Blind Willie Johnson - Jesus Make Up My Dying Bed [00:03:14]
- Blind Willie Johnson - Nobody's Fault But Mine [00:03:11]
- Memphis Jug Band - Stealin' Stealin' [00:02:59]
- Memphis Minnie - When The Levee Breaks [00:03:11]
- Robert Wilkens - That's No Way To Get Along [00:02:55]
- Sleepy John Estes - The Girl I Love [00:03:00]
- Big Bill Broonzy - I Can't Be Satisfied [00:02:48]
- Sleepy John Estes - Drop Down Mama [00:03:12]
- Oscar Woods - Lone Wolf Blues [00:03:14]
- Robert Johnson - Travellin' Riverside Blues [00:02:46]
- Sonny Boy Williamson - Got The Bottle Up And Gone [00:02:33]
- Bukka White - Shake 'em On Down [00:03:02]
- Sonny Boy Williamson - Sugar Mama Blues [00:02:59]
- Robert Johnson - Sweet Home Chicago [00:03:02]
- Sonny Boy Williamson - Good Morning Schoolgirl [00:03:01]
- Big Bill Broonzy - Truckin Little Woman [00:02:39]
- Blind Boy Fuller - I Want Some Of Your Pie [00:02:47]
- Bukka White - Fixin' To Die [00:02:49]
- Leadbelly - Gallis Pole [00:03:01]
- St. Louis Jimmy - Goin' Down Slow [00:03:11]
- How Many More Years:
- Joe Liggens - Honeydripper [00:03:04]
- Arthur Crudup - That's Alright Mama [00:02:53]
- Roy Brown - Rockin' At Midnight [00:02:43]
- Sister Rosetta Tharpe - Down By The Riverside [00:02:30]
- John Lee Hooker - Boogie Chillin' [00:03:08]
- Hank Snow - I'm Movin' On [00:02:51]
- Muddy Waters - Rollin' And Tumblin' [00:02:58]
- Bb King - Three O'clock Blues [00:02:59]
- Muddy Waters - Long Distance Call [00:02:38]
- John Lee Hooker - I'm In The Mood [00:02:55]
- Howlin' Wolf - How Many More Years [00:02:43]
- Muddy Waters - Honey Bee [00:03:24]
- Elmore James - Dust My Broom [00:02:54]
- Ray Charles - I Got A Woman [00:02:47]
- Howlin' Wolf - No Place To Go [00:02:34]
- Lonnie Donegan - Rock Island Line [00:02:27]
- Elvis - Baby Let's Play House [00:02:16]
- Bo Diddley - I'm A Man [00:02:42]
- Elvis - Baby I Don't Care [00:01:52]
- Gen Vincent - Be Bop A Lula [00:02:34]
- Train Kept a Rollin':
- Fat Domino - Blueberry Hill [00:02:21]
- Little Richard - The Girl Can't Help It [00:02:59]
- Eddie Cochran - Twenty Flight Rock [00:01:44]
- Otis Rush - I Can't Quit You Baby [00:03:38]
- Elvis - Lawdy Miss Clawdy [00:02:09]
- Dale Hawkins - Susie Q [00:02:13]
- Johnny Burnette - Train Kept A Rollin' [00:02:16]
- Little Richard - Long Tall Sally [00:02:01]
- Chuck Berry - Roll Over Beethoven [00:02:23]
- Howlin' Wolf - Smokestack Lighting [00:03:04]
- Chas Mcdevitt - Cotton Song [00:02:48]
- Little Richard - Keep-A-Knockin' [00:02:11]
- Jerry Lee Lewis - Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On [00:02:52]
- The Diamonds - The Stroll [00:02:27]
- The Monotones - The Book Of Love [00:02:19]
- Jimmie Rodgers - Kisses Sweeter Than Wine [00:02:19]
- Buddy Holly - Rave On [00:01:49]
- Chuck Berry - Johnny B Goode [00:02:39]
- The Platters - Smoke Gets In Your Eyes [00:02:38]
- Eddie Cochran - C'mon Everybody [00:01:56]
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It's not much of a secret that Led Zeppelin (and the whole heavy metal genre that arose in the group's wake) had their roots deep in the blues, and there are several sets like this on the market that explore those roots, collecting source 78s and performances that influenced the band, whether they were acknowledged or not (anyone who thinks that Robert Plant and Jimmy Page actually wrote that line about lemons and squeezing them really needs to check out a set like this one). The Zep had collective good taste, though, and any compilation that has old blues classics like Booker White's "Fixin' to Die Blues," Leadbelly's "Gallis Pole," Memphis Minnie's "When the Levee Breaks," and Sleepy John Estes' "Girl I Love, She Got Long Curly Hair," as this one does, is well worth a listen. But the real highlights of this disc are the final two tracks, "Psycho Daisies" and "Dazed & Confused." The former was the B-side of the Yardbirds' single "Happenings Ten Years Time Ago," recorded late in that group's legacy when both Page and Jeff Beck were members (Beck actually takes a rare vocal turn on the track), and it exhibits a fun, hard sound that somewhat prefigures where Zeppelin would do on their debut album in 1969. The version included here of "Dazed & Confused" is from 1968 and it is fascinatingly sung and performed by the man who wrote it, Jake Holmes. In Zeppelin's hands it morphed a bit, pumped up on metal DNA, but Holmes' version is the obvious blueprint. Play this set and then listen to Zeppelin's Atlantic debut immediately after it. It's all clear. Nothing comes out of thin air.