Side A
Artist	Song	Buy
1. Blind Willie Johnson	Jesus Make Up My Dying Bed The Complete Blind Willie Johnson (1927)
2. Ch arley Patton	Jesus Is a Dying-Bed Maker Complete Recordings 1929-1934 (1929)
3. Josh White	Jesus Gonna Make Up My Dying Bed Josh White Vol. 1 1929-1933 (1933)
4. Gabriel Brown, John & Rochelle French	Tone The Bell Easy Field Recordings Vol. 7: Florida (1935-1936) (1935)
5. Mitchell's Christian Singers	Jesus Goin' Make Up My Dyin' Bed Mitchell's Christian Singers Vol. 3 (1938-1940) (1938)
6. Norfolk Jazz and Jubilee Quartet	Jesus Is Making Up My Dying Bed Norfolk Jazz and Jubilee Quartet Vol. 6 (1937-1940) (1938)
7. Golden Gate Quartet	Toll the Bell Easy Golden Gate Quartet Vol. 4 (1939-1943) (1941)
8. The Soul Stirrers	Well, Well, Well Roots & Branches (1950)
9. Dock Reed	Jesus Goin' to Make Up My Dyin' Bed Negro Folk Music of Alabama, Vol. 2: Religious Music (1951)
10. Horace Sprott	Jesus Going to Make Up My Dying Bed Music from the South, Vol. 4: Horace Sprott, 3 (1955)
11. Bob Dylan	In My Time of Dyin' Bob Dylan (1962)
12. Harry Belafonte	Tone the Bell Easy Ballads, Blues and Boasters (1964)
13. Mississippi Fred McDowell	Jesus Gonna Make Up My Dying Bed Amazing Grace (1965)
14. Fear Itself	In My Time of Dying Fear Itself (1969)
15. John Sebastian	Well, Well, Well The Four of Us (1971)
16. John Fahey	Jesus Is a Dying Bedmaker (version 1) America (1971)
17. Shocking Blue	In My Time of Dying Ham (1973)
18. Led Zeppelin	In My Time of Dying Physical Graffiti (1975)
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
1. Spacemen 3	Come Down Easy The Perfect Prescription (1987)
2. Lydia Lunch & Rowland S. Howard	In My Time of Dying Shotgun Wedding (1991)
3. Big Sugar	In My Time of Dying Big Sugar (1992)
4. Pops Staples	Jesus Is Going to Make Up (My Dying Bed) Father Father (1993)
5. Pride and Glory	In My Time of Dying Pride and Glory (1994)
6. Stevens Sisters	In My Time of Dying Sisters (1996)
7. John Mellencamp	In My Time of Dying Rough Harvest (1999)
8. Josh White Jr.	Jesus Gonna Make Up My Dying Bed In Trubute to Josh White: House of the Rising Son (1999)
9. Still on the Hill	In My Time of Dying LIVE Folkstage WFMT Chicago (2002)
10. The Be Good Tanyas	In My Time of Dying Chinatown (2003)
11. Martin L. Gore	In My Time of Dying Counterfeit 2 (2003)
12. Liz Janes	Jesus Is a Dying Bed-Maker Liz Janes & Cre ate (!) (2005)
13. 3 Stages of Pain	Jesus Gonna Make My Dyin' Bed Blackheart Blues (2005)
14. Ben Godwin	In My Time of Dying Lighter Than the Atom/=shinyshiny= (2006)

Comment:

I grew up listening to Led Zeppelin and I can't remember when I first heard about all the accusations of plagiarism against them. I remember seeing a list several years ago on somebody's Led Zeppelin website FAQ page with all of the alleged infringements, and in the last few years I've tried to track down all of the songs that have been cited as having been plundered by Led Zeppelin. A long time ago I posted a sort of "overview compilation" (part 1 and part 2) of those songs, and other mixes devoted to "When the Levee Breaks" and "Dazed and Confused." A lot of the accusations are overblown, but that is not to say that Led Zeppelin hasn't failed to cite their sources a time or two. By my count 13 tracks should have or already have had a change to the songwriting credits (you can check out my website if you're curious about which ones fall into this category). One of those songs that should have different songwriting credits is "In My Time of Dying," which is credited to all four members of Led Zeppelin on Physical Graffiti. By all rights, the credits should be "Traditional, arr. Bonham, Jones, Page, Plant," because this song has roots that go back before the twentieth century and had been recorded many times under a number of different titles well before Led Zeppelin took it up. This compilation includes recorded versions of "In My Time of Dying" (also known as "Jesus Make Up My Dying Bed," "Well, Well, Well," and "Tone the Bell Easy" among other titles) by artists from a variety of genres over the years, presented in chronological order. Led Zeppelin's version draw most heavily on Josh White, Bob Dylan and Fear Itself, who turned the song into an exte nded blues rock jam. Also it's interesting to note how you can hear Led Zeppelin's influence in almost all of the tracks that followed their version.

I didn't set out to write such a lengthy piece on my website about Led Zeppelin's influences when I first starting looking into this issue. The reason I've spent so much time on it is that I've discovered a wealth of great music in the process. Say what you will about Led Zeppelin, they had great taste in music. And just for the record, I'm still a big Zep fan. They always brought something original to everything they recorded, except maybe "Boogie with Stu," but I'll save that for another mix.

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