WHEN THE LEVEE BREAKS

Created on 09/05/2006
Latest update on 28/02/2022

Artist: Kansas Joe & Memphis Minnie
Author: Joe McCoy
Label: Columbia
Year: 1929

Still impressed by the nearby Mississippi river flood of 1927. Minnie (née Lizzie Douglas) spend her youth in Walls, MS, Delta town under the Mississippi levee.

Covers:

1965:

Levee Breakers [with singer Beverley Kutner, pre Martyn; released in 2014]

1971:

Led Zeppelin

1986:

Beastie Boys [sampling Led Zeppelin's beat in Rhymin' & Stealin']

1993:

John Campbell

1994:

Kristin Hersh

1998:

Massive Attack [the same John Bonham beat under Man Next Door from Mezzanine]

1999:

Magic Slim-Billy Branch-James Cotton

2009:

Buckwheat Zydeco [with Sonny Landreth]

2022:

Beth Hart [in medley with Dancing Days]

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