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| Travelling Riverside Blues
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1990 US CD single
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| Appears on
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Led Zeppelin (box set)
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| Published by
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Flames of Albion Music
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| Registration
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ASCAP 500445772
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| Release date
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8 October 1990
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| Recorded
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24 June 1969
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| Genre
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Blues-rock, hard rock
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| Language
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English
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| Length
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5 min 12 sec
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| Composer
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Jimmy Page]], Robert Plant]], Robert Johnson
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| Label
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Atlantic Records
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| Producer
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Jimmy Page
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| Engineer
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John Waters
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'Travelling Riverside Blues' is a blues-rock]] song written and recorded by England|English]] rock band]] Led Zeppelin]]. The title is inspired from 'Traveling Riverside Blues' by blues musician Robert Johnson. The Led Zeppelin song is registered with copyright association American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers|ASCAP]], with the unique title code 500445772.[1]
Overview
The song was recorded at the BBC]] studios in Aeolian Hall on 24 June 1969, by engineer John Waters, which took place during the band's Led Zeppelin United Kingdom Tour Summer 1969|U.K. Tour of Summer 1969]]. Jimmy Page]] dubbed extra guitar tracks onto the track, and it was broadcast four days later on John Peel's Top Gear (radio show)|Top Gear]] show under the title 'Travelling Riverside Blues '69',[2] and repeated on 11 January 1970. It is quite different from 'Traveling Riverside Blues', and it is more a pastiche tribute to Robert Johnson than a straight cover. The song showcases a riff by Page (also in open G tuning), and in the lyrics Robert Plant]] quotes many Robert Johnson snippets, such as 'She studies evil all the time'. It is likely that Johnson borrowed this himself, from a song recorded earlier that year (1937) called 'She Squeezed My Lemon', by Roosevelt Sykes.
'Travelling Riverside Blues' can be found on the BBC Sessions (Led Zeppelin album)|BBC Sessions]] album, on disc 1 of the Led Zeppelin (box set)|Led Zeppelin]] box set, and on the expanded Coda (album)|Coda]] album from The Complete Studio Recordings (Led Zeppelin box set)|The Complete Studio Recordings]] box set]]. It was interest from US radio interviewers and fans during Page's Outrider]] tour that originally led him to negotiate with BBC Enterprises for the song's release.[3] A promotional video clip was also released in 1990, with outtake footage from the band's 1976 concert film]], The Song Remains the Same]] inter-spliced with other footage from the band's archive. The clip also features a railroad montage, and underwater shots of the Mississippi River. The song reached number seven on the Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] Top Rock Tracks Top 50 chart in November 1990, culled from national album rock radio airplay reports.[4]
| Personnel
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- Musicians:
- Jimmy Page – electric guitar, producer, remastering, digital remastering
- Robert Plant – vocals, harmonica
- John Paul Jones – piano, bass guitar
- John Bonham - drums, percussion
- Production:
- Peter Grant]] – executive producer
- John Waters - engineer, mixing
- Dick Carruthers – video director
- Joe Sidore - original CD mastering engineer (mid-1980s)
- George Marino - remastered CD engineer (1990)
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Chart positions
| Chart (1990)
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Peak position
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| US Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks Chart[5]
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7
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| Canadian RPM Top 100 Chart[6]
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57
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Notes
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