BeatTips MusicStudy: Led Zeppelin – “Hey Hey What Can I Do”

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By Amir Said On Jan 14, 2011

Down-Home Blues Driven Rock Marked by a Rock Steady Central Groove

By AMIR SAID (SA’ID)

The music and video below is presented here for the purpose of scholarship.

Led Zeppelin – “Hey Hey What Can I Do”

One of Led Zeppelin’s finest offerings, “Hey Hey What Can I Do” is yet one more demonstration of the group’s ability to interpret the blues within an amped-up “rock” context. In fact, as is often the case, Led Zeppelin didn’t as much play “rock” with a blues feel as they actually played the blues with various rock nuances.

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