When the Levee Breaks

Sturgill Simpson covering Led Zeppelin's "When the Levee Breaks", a song originally written by Kansas Joe McCoy and Memphis Minnie about the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927.

When the Levee Breaks

A second post on the 1927 Mississippi River flood. NPR had this piece yesterday on Music about the Flood.

Here is Memphis Minnie and Kansas Joe McCoy's "When the Levee Breaks"



A more current version of "When the Levee Breaks" by Alison Krauss and Robert Plant

Precious Bryant

Here are a couple videos from Precious Bryant. She's an incredible guitar player.

Here she performs "My Chauffeur", a song that has been covered many times in both the folk and blues traditions.



He is an instrumental, "Georgia Buck".



I wish there was more, but that is all the video I can find of Bryant. Here is one more that is just audio, the Memphis Minnie song "Black Rat Swing".



I have set the ringtone on my iPhone to a Precious Bryant song title "Sugar Hill Blues". You can hear that song here.