Robert Plant and Alison Krauss have released their live version of Led Zeppelin classic When The Levee Breaks. / (min cost $ 0 ) or signup to continue reading The legendary group's frontman, 75, and his 52-year-old Americana duets partner have put out two collaborative albums together - 2007's Raising Sand and 2021's Raise the Roof - to date. They have now made the live version of the re-worked country blues song by the English rock group, which became the last song on their 1971 untitled fourth album, available on streaming services.
Plant and Krauss perform the song at their live shows, and are accompanied by guitarist JD McPherson, drummer Jay Bellerose, bassist Dennis Crouch, string player Stuart Duncan and multi-instrumentalist Viktor Krauss. Plant used many of the original lyrics and the songwriting is credited to Memphis Minnie and the individual members of Led Zeppelin. Late drummer John Bonham's drumbeat is one of the most used samples in popular music, having been used on tracks by Eminem and Dr Dre, Mike Oldfield and Sophie B Hawkins.
It's not the only Zeppelin track to make it into the pair's live sets, with them having performed the likes of The Battle Of Evermore, Rock And Roll and Gallows Pole. Plant recently admitted it was "cathartic" performing Zeppelin classic Stairway To Heaven again. The rock icon jumped onstage in October at a charity concert in the UK hosted by Duran Duran's Andy Taylor, who underwent treatment for prostate cancer.
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