Artist	Song
Elvis Presley	Baby, Let's Play House
from Elvis At Sun (Remastered) (2004)
Lonnie Donegan	Rock Island Line (Arranged By Lonnie Donegan)
from Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: Red, White & Blues - A Film By Mike Figgis (2003)
Chuck Berry	Johnny B. Goode
from The Definitive Collection (2006)
Muddy Waters	You Need Love
from Muddy Waters: His Best (1956-1964) (1997)
Howlin' Wolf	Smokestack Lightning
from His Best (Chess 50th Anniversary Collection) (1997)
Robert Johnson	Traveling Riverside Blues
from King of the Delta Blues Singers (1994)
Memphis Minnie	When the Levee Breaks
from Queen of the Blues (1997)
Otis Rush	I Can't Quit You Baby
from The Essential Otis Rush (2006)
Sonny Boy Williamson II	Bring It On Home
from Sonny Boy Williamson II: His Best (1997)
Jake Holmes	Dazed and Confused
from "The Above Ground Sound" of Jake Holmes (2004)
Bert Jansch	Black Water Side
from Best of Bert Jansch (2005)
Roy Harper	Another Day
from The Passions of Great Fortune, Vol. 1 (2005)
The Yardbirds	Smokestack Lightning (Live)
from Five Live Yardbirds (2006)
The Yardbirds	For Your Love
from Shapes of Things - The Very Best of the Yardbirds (2006)
The Jimi Hendrix Experience	Purple Haze
from Experience Hendrix - The Best of Jimi Hendrix (2010)
Andrés Segovia	Seis Pavanas: Pavana No. 1 in A Minor
from The Segovia Collection (2002)
The Master Musicians of Jajouka	55 (Hamsa oua Hamsine)
from Brian Jones Presents The Pipes of Pan At Jajouka (1995)
Woody Guthrie	Pastures of Plenty
from The Asch Recordings, Vol. 1-4 (1999)

Comment:

Led Zeppelin's been called the godfathers of heavy metal, and with good reason: they took the blues and cranked 'em up to [i]godhead[/i] proportions. But they were always far more than that, summoning mystic winds and gathering a globe's worth of music into their classic rock arsenal. Scotty Moore's rockatwangy solo on Elvis Presley's "Baby, Let's Play House" persuaded a 12-year-old Jimmy Page to pick up the guitar and join Moore in string-bending sorcery. But Led Zeppelin would've sounded positively [i]tinny[/i] without Robert Plant's banshee wail, and where better to cop a howl than from Howlin' Wolf himself, in "Smokestack Lightnin'." Bert Jansch's folky finger-flinging in "Black Water Side" was reproduced almost note-for-note in Zep's "Black Mountain Side," with a side serving of the type of tabla that booms and bops through Ravi Shankar's "Dhun (Folk Airs)." (Shankar-style sitar also makes an appearance in Zeppelin's "The Battle of Evermore," and Page imitates its droning tones with his 12-string on "Kashmir.") From Robert Johnson to Ricky Nelson, from Andrés Segovia to Jimi Hendrix, we've got all the licks that shaped one of rock's greatest bands.

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