The Roots of Led Zeppelin

 If songs like “Down By The Seaside,” “Gallows Pole” and “Bron-Y-Aur Stomp” didn’t convince you that Led Zeppelin had occasional detours off the road to Clarksdale to the Appalachians, or at least Nashville, then maybe the words of the alt.country/roots music impresario T-Bone Burnett, who produced the great new CD Raising Sand with Robert Plant and Alison Krauss (review soon) will convince you:

“People confuse Led Zeppelin with what came after them, as if they were a heavy metal band. [...]

Patterson Hood Talks About New Drive By Truckers Release

To get ready for tonight’s show I was trolling for Trucker info and came across Patterson Hood talking about the Drive By Truckers’ new upcoming release on ReadExpress.com.

“The new record’s kind of all over the map,” (Patterson) explained. “A couple of songs sound like they could’ve come off of country records from the early ’60s. And a couple of songs are almost Stooges/MC5 primal stomp. [There's] almost a Howlin’ Wolf influence on one song.”

Nice!