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To: simpson96; ZirconEncrustedTweezers

Memphis Minnie - When the Levee Breaks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5VmVvsjyKw


7 posted on 04/29/2021 6:25:36 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Are you suggesting Zeppelin plagiarized that song?


8 posted on 04/29/2021 6:26:58 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: BenLurkin
Memphis Minnie's opus was one of many songs inspired by the lower Mississippi Valley flood of 1927, which she experienced. Here is another, recorded by Vernon Dalhart, the most popular singer of the 1920's.

The Mississippi Flood--Al Craver (Vernon Dalhart) (1927)

19 posted on 04/29/2021 7:09:23 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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