Listen to this and tell me you don’t hear The Blues. Especially at the very end. I know I have a trained ear because I’m a musician so perhaps it’s more obvious to me than it would be to someone who doesn’t. Tell me what you think. This is the Native tribe associated with the Mississippi area which was way bigger than the current state of Mississippi.

The Blues started in the Delta of the Mississippi River. A lot of those original Blues players migrated to Chicago after a devastating flood. It’s what When the Levee Breaks, which Zeppelin stole from Kansas Joe McCoy and Memphis Minni, was written about!

And I give artists a lot more grace who cover songs that don’t have such an obvious personal attachment to the original artist. Do you think Robert Plant or Jimmy Page ever experienced anything like that? They were born well.

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