I love this. More always needs to be said about the enormous, usually unacknowledged debt modern music owes to black musicians like these. Bands like Zepplin and the Stones and musicians like Eric Clapton got rich and famous off of black musicians’ works and the blues sounds that they created.
if you go looking it’s remarkably easy to find examples of black music or black musicians whose work was covered for which the covers are comparably or better known than the originals–just the Rolling Stones for example have something like two dozen covers of the sort!
I love this. More always needs to be said about the enormous, usually unacknowledged debt modern music owes to black musicians like these. Bands like Zepplin and the Stones and musicians like Eric Clapton got rich and famous off of black musicians’ works and the blues sounds that they created.
if you go looking it’s remarkably easy to find examples of black music or black musicians whose work was covered for which the covers are comparably or better known than the originals–just the Rolling Stones for example have something like two dozen covers of the sort!