When The Levee Breaks - Man Against The River

When The Levee Breaks Song by Kansas Joe McCoy, Memphis Minnie mixed with footage of rushing flood waters.

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Music

Tags:

• When
• The
• Levee
• Breaks
• Man
• Against
• River
• blues
• flood
• archival
• footage
• water

[zipahead]

yeah brilliant. The music... the footage... stunning..this one is going on my favorites

[brendafohio]

Thanks for watching and for taking the time to comment! Peace.

[jspen2]

This is great! Wonderful job!

[brendafohio]

Thanks, I really like the song, be it Zep or Kansas Joe and Memphis Minnie. Peace.

[osp80]

is this footage of the '27 flood

[brendafohio]

Though the 27 flood is what they are singing about, this footage is not of the 27 flood.

[collegoflustandfear]

@draconistheory haha. thats ironic considering its a blues song about a flood. it wasnt s'posed to be happy.

[bludav1]

i like Dylan's version, too

[draconistheory]

This one is just so happy, I can't but chuckle along with it.

[1blastman]

Great bands cover great songs by great artists. LZ brought this song back into the national consciousness. Other artists [John Campbell, Bonerama, etc] have put their personal stamp on this song.

Check out John Campbell's version, it's chilling.

[801Current]

@foxbarloyal I don't know why they didn't give any credit to the original artists, but they did re write everysingle one, they even re wrote a lot of the lyrics..they should credit the originals though...they might have meant no harm, being a musician you feel like everyone knows a lot about music like you and maybe they thought that people would just know the song, not knowing that everyone didn't listen to it like they did?

[foxbarloyal]

This may not be the best place to ask this, but I gotta ask it somewhere...

Why does Led Zeppelin list the authors of this song as Page/Plant, as well as many other songs that they covered? Traveling Riverside Blue is one song that they really didn't add much too, yet they saw fit to claim it as their own? I have no problem with bands doing covers, but to give NO credit to Robert Johnson or other blues greats who created the music is a crime.

[aechengle]

First of all, this song is actually by Memphis Minnie. Having said that, it is true that Led Zeppelin is the greatest band ever. But a lot of Zep was blues covers, including Nobody's fault but mine by Blind Willy.

[bonjovifan89]

@Homesikhalo yea but you gotta keep in mind, if it werent for this, there would be no led zeppelin version.

[Homesikhalo]

led zeppelins is better

[mvfasolfasoo]

jejeje never heard this one till now

its great but i still prefer zepps one