Traveling Riverside Blues
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"Traveling Riverside Blues" is a blues song written and recorded in Dallas, Texas by legendary bluesman Robert Johnson. Johnson's June 20, 1937 recording has a typical 12 bar blues structure, 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. The song has proved popular with more recent blues musicians.
Covers
A verse was incorporated into Cream's "Crossroads", their 1968 version of Johnson's "Cross Road Blues".Led Zeppelin's version of this song is quite different from the original, and it's more a tribute to Robert Johnson than a cover. The song showcases a riff by Jimmy Page (also in open G tuning), and the in the lyrics Robert Plant quotes many Robert Johnson songs, like in the lines "She studies evil all the time", from "Kind Hearted Woman Blues", and "Why don't you come on in my kitchen", from "Come On In My Kitchen" (which is heard during the song's solo). The song can be found on the Led Zeppelin BBC Sessions album and on the expanded Coda album from the Complete Studio Recordings box set. Conversely, parts of Johnson's "Traveling Riverside Blues" are used as lyrics in Led Zeppelin's "The Lemon Song".
Eric Clapton covered this song, along with several other Robert Johnson classics, on his 2004 album, Me and Mr. Johnson.
Sample
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