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Message: [QUOTE="Jackcatscal, post: 5309780, member: 8336"] "When the Levee Breaks" is a great old blues song written in 1929 by Memphis Minnie and her husband, Kansas Joe McCoy. There have been some terrific versions of the song. I especially like the one by Alison Krauss (whom I'll see in San Diego tomorrow) and Robert Plant. There's also a killer version by Beth Hart (and we saw her perform it a couple of years ago). (I won't mention the "original" Led Zeppelin version, since they recorded and released it with no credit to the original Black artists who wrote it.) The song is about flooding in Mississippi that forced the residents to escape north. [MEDIA=youtube]oz9TTTt3joY[/MEDIA] [MEDIA=youtube]vNkXoS3zutw[/MEDIA] [URL="https://youtu.be/gLeiXWXca24?si=XEgiGWW8Bxjycm33"]Beth Hart - When The Levee Breaks (21.07.2023, Stuttgart, Jazz Open)[/URL] [/QUOTE]