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Japanese reissue of 2000 compilation is packaged in a miniature heavy quality LP gatefold sleeve. 24 tracks including the 13-minute plus 'Whole Lotta Love' (Medley) featuring 'Boogie Chillun'/Fixin' To Die/That's Alright Mama/A Mess Of Blues'. Includes credits & lyric booklet. Atlantic. 2003.
Frequently bootlegged and now digitally remastered by Jimmy Page, these tapes capture a 25-month (1969 to 1971) arc in which Zep's sound grew to encompass the speed rush and jazz/blues festival stuff of their 1969 debut, the fully developed folkie musings of "Going to California" (in which Plant vowed
Album Description
Japanese reissue of 2000 compilation is packaged in a miniature heavy quality LP gatefold sleeve. 24 tracks including the 13-minute plus 'Whole Lotta Love' (Medley) featuring 'Boogie Chillun'/Fixin' To Die/That's Alright Mama/A Mess Of Blues'. Includes credits & lyric booklet. Atlantic. 2003.
Frequently bootlegged and now digitally remastered by Jimmy Page, these tapes capture a 25-month (1969 to 1971) arc in which Zep's sound grew to encompass the speed rush and jazz/blues festival stuff of their 1969 debut, the fully developed folkie musings of "Going to California" (in which Plant vowed to make a hejira right up to Joni Mitchell's front door), and the band's modestly popular multilayered epic "Stairway to Heaven." The Sessions also give a glimpse of nearly off-the-cuff invention in an intense take on Robert Johnson's "Traveling Riverside Blues." Most other white blues musicians would've rushed to get this on vinyl; Page and Plant instead used it for parts, most notably taking its profound acoustic freneticism for Led Zeppelin III. --Rickey Wright
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Manufacturer: Atlantic / Wea
Release date: 18 November 1997
Number of discs: 2
EAN: 0075678306143 UPC: 075678306143
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