Sunday, December 27, 2020

Led Zeppelin - Blues (1970)

I'm sure that a lot of obsessive LZ fans will have made compilations of their favourite tracks into themed albums, and so it's now my turn. I'd always loved the two slow blues tracks from their first and third albums, and after I found a rare un-issued track from 1969 which was too good not to share I decided to compile an album of my favourite pure blues tracks from their early years. 'I Can't Quit You Baby' and 'You Shook Me' showed right from the start where their roots lay, and to mix it up a bit I've used a longer and more raw take of 'You Shook Me' for this album. 'Baby Come On Home' has a hint of R'n'B to it, it's still a great bluesy track which I've pieced together from two of the three takes which are out there, and it sounds pretty good to me. I've also patched the intro to 'Travelling Riverside Blues', which was only ever recorded for the BBC, and had an annoying fade-in at the beginning. This was one of many songs they recorded for the Beeb which never appeared on a studio album, despite being a superb take of the Robert Johnson original, and similarly, this remix by KLAPE of Buddy Guy's' 'Sitting And Thinking' was played live just the once in 1969, and also never made it into the studio. As this album is a mixture of studio recordings, radio sessions, out-takes and live tracks then hopefully it will be worth a listen for even the most seasoned Led Zep fan.   



Track listing

01 I Can't Quit You Baby
02 Bring It On Home
03 You Shook Me
04 Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
05 Baby Come On Home
06 Since I've Been Loving You 
07 Sitting And Thinking
08 Travelling Riverside Blues


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5 comments:

  1. OldcapellonMay 9, 2020 at 12:04 AM

    WoOoW ! Great tunes !!
    thanks a lot !

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  2. AnonymousMay 9, 2020 at 4:58 AM

    Thanks a lot!!!!!!!!!!!! The only thing that could make this perfect is if it was flac files.

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  3. AnonymousMay 10, 2020 at 6:02 AM

    The only way it could be perfect id if you could really hear a difference. Blind Studies have proved that only 1 percent of the listening public can hear the difference, the other 99 percent can see the difference on their computers. So... FLAC OFF!

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  4. AnonymousMay 11, 2020 at 6:28 AM

    Thanks a lot for your posts, your website is one of the few that I visit on a daily basis :-)
    I just wanted to comment the anonymous comment about the FLAC files: maybe it is hard to hear the difference with mp3 when it is 320kbps (I hope this person was not having 128kbps in mind !!), but I see a very big advantage to FLAC: it is reversible and may be switched to any other format. This means that if I have a FLAC file today, I know I will not lose it in 10 or 20 years, and I will Always be able to convert it. The same is NOT true with mp3...
    Anyway, this is fine that you post music in mp3 format, this is your blog and your decision, and I am happy enough that you post such good music :-) !
    Vincent

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  5. pjMay 11, 2020 at 9:32 AM

    I didn't want to get into the whole mp3 vs. FLAC debate, but for me it's purely because all the audio editing software that I have only works on mp3, so that what I've always used.

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