Travelling Riverside Blues
| "Travelling Riverside Blues" | |
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| Song by Robert Johnson from the album King of the Delta Blues Singers | |
| Released | 1961 |
| Recorded | Dallas, Texas, June 20, 1937 |
| Genre | Blues |
| Length | 2:47 |
| Label | Columbia |
| Writer(s) | Robert Johnson |
| Producer(s) | Don Law |
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| Single by Led Zeppelin | ||||||||
| from the album Led Zeppelin Boxed Set | ||||||||
| Released | October 8, 1990 | |||||||
| Format | CD single | |||||||
| Recorded | Maida Vale Studio 4 (BBC), June 24, 1969 | |||||||
| Genre | Blues rock | |||||||
| Length | 5:11 | |||||||
| Label | Atlantic | |||||||
| Writer(s) | Robert Johnson, Jimmy Page, Robert Plant | |||||||
| Producer(s) | John Walters | |||||||
| ISWC | T-070.187.795-3 | |||||||
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"Travelling Riverside Blues" is a blues song written by the bluesman Robert Johnson. He recorded during his last recording session on June 20, 1937, in Dallas, Texas.
Johnson's song has a typical 12 bar blues structure (though as is common in downhome blues of this era, the length of each verse is in fact thirteen-and-a-half bars of 4/4), played on a single guitar tuned to open G, with a slide. It was first released on the 1961 compilation LP King of the Delta Blues Singers. A second alternate version was recorded the same day (and was considered lost) but was finally released officially on the 2011 album The Complete Recordings (The Centennial Collection).
The song is well known for the lyric "Now you can squeeze my lemon 'til the juice run down my leg," which was later used by Led Zeppelin in their song "The Lemon Song," from the album Led Zeppelin II. It is likely that Johnson had taken this himself from a song recorded earlier that same year (1937) called "She Squeezed My Lemon", by Roosevelt Sykes.
English rock band Led Zeppelin's version of this song was produced by John Walters at the BBC studios in Aeolian Hall on June 24, 1969 during the band's UK Tour of Summer 1969. Jimmy Page dubbed extra guitar tracks onto the track (the main track being played on a 12-string electric guitar, possibly the same one used on the track "Thank You"), and it was broadcast four days later on John Peel's Top Gear show under the title "Travelling Riverside Blues '69", and repeated on January 11, 1970. Page used an acoustic slide guitar for the entire song, while Bonham played triplets on the bass drum.
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