Who is Memphis Minnie?
She wrote When the Levee Breaks in 1929. Led Zeppelin and Beyoncé followed.
Memphis Minnie · blues singer and guitarist
What it became
- Played on When the Levee Breaks (Kansas Joe McCoy & Memphis Minnie, 1929). Memphis Minnie and Kansas Joe McCoy wrote and recorded it in 1929, after the Great Mississippi Flood. Source: Wikipedia: When the Levee Breaks, Guitar Player
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