How Led Zeppelin used influences of both Folk and Blues music to create

the genre of rock.

LZ Song

Orig
Attribute
Bonham,
Jones,
Page, Plant

Orig Song

The Lemon
Song

Bonham,
Jones,
Page, Plant

Stairway to
Heaven

Page, Plant

Whole
Lotta Love

Earlier
Artist
Willie Dixon

Current
Attribute
Bonham,
Dixon,
Jones,
Page, Plant

Killing Floor

Howlin Wolf

Bonham,
Burnett,
Jones,
Page, Plant

Taurus

Spirit

Unchange
d, Lawsuit

You Need
Love

Why?
Riff was
written
by Page,
before
anything
else.
Added
lyrics
from old
song.
Lyrics
(eg,
squeeze
[my
lemon]
till the
juice runs
down my
leg.) can
be traced
to rob
Johnsen
travellin
g
riverside
blues.
Although
also likely
borrowed
by rob
from she
sqeezed
my
lemon by
Arthur
mckay.
Zep also
borrowed
from
albert
kings
cross-cut
saw
Zep
opened

pending

for Spirit
and
heard
Taurus
before
writing
Stairway.

First 2 albums Structured around 12 bar blues, extended jams of blues standards,
and folk songs. Mixed different songs but ultimately lead to legal problems due to
lots of things being taken from other bands. Open tunings, aggressive playing,
improvised passages, unusual rhythmic patterns, riffs not doubled on guitar,
bass, and drums exactly but more melodic and rhythmic variations, eg black dog
(3 t sig). Page used blues scales and eastern music. Robert Plants vocals have
been compared to