This track was covered by Led Zeppelin on their fourth studio album, known as Led Zeppelin IV or Symbols. They were notorious for poaching old blues and folk songs and passing them off as their own material; however Memphis Minnie does receive a rare credit on 'Levee' (along with the four bandmembers, of course). The original features Minnie's accomplished guitar work, along with Kansas Joe on vocals and second guitar, while Led Zeppelin's version is a radical departure with crashing drums and a heavy, electric blues sound. Led Zeppelin also added a verse about 'going to Chicago' - which would surely have appealed to Minnie & Joe when they recorded the song in the midst of the southern blacks' mass migration to the northern US cities.

Links

http://www.furious.com/perfect/jimmypage.html
An article about Jimmy Page's blues-borrowing tactics.

http://www.thebluehighway.com/
Useful blues resource, with essays, radio, links, photos and blues chat.

http://www.rootsandrhythm.com/
International US-based mail order record catalogue, specializing in roots music.

http://www.jazznblues.co.uk/
UK-based jazz and blues record specialists.