10 Best Led Zeppelin Songs Of All Time

By Chris Peet /

3. Travelling Riverside Blues

It€™s no secret that Zeppelin wore their early blues influences on their sleeves and were definitely partial to half-inching a melody or two and rearranging it into something totally their own. Here, from their 1969 BBC Sessions, they take the basic gist of Robert Johnson€™s Travelling Riverside Blues and splash it with kaleidoscopic colours and textures. Pagey€™s harmonious, jingle-jangle slide guitars slither up and down the recording while Plant yelps and screeches delightful filth €“ €˜squeeze my lemon €˜til the juice runs down my leg.€™ Less a cover version and more a hat-tipping tribute to Johnson, Led Zeppelin, nevertheless, make the song their own and it remains one of their grooviest arrangements.