February 20, 2022 - 8:01 PM
An original member of Led Zeppelin performed one of the band’s signature song along with some friends to promote an environmental fundraiser.
John Paul Jones plays bass again in When The Levee Breaks as part of Playing for Change. The song tells the story of an engineering failure at a dam that’s been overwhelmed. A simpler version of the song was originally written in 1929 by Kansas Joe McCoy and Memphis Minnie and was inspired by the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927.
From London, Englad, Jones adds in his notes alongside other musicians who recorded their sections in other parts of the world.
The latest version of the song breathes new life into the consequences of man-made catastrophes and frames a broken levee as a microcosm of climate change.
The production was organized by the Playing For Change Foundation.
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