Our performance of “Babe I’m Gonna Leave You” showed how original the band was. ![]() He came up with an incredible, plaintive vocal.” Later, Page used “Babe I’m Gonna Leave You” as an example of the eclectic diversity of his energetic rock band when he argued in Brad Tolinski’s Light and Shade: Conversations with Jimmy Page, “ The first album featured two folk-oriented songs, “Babe I’m Gonna Leave You” and “Black Mountain Side,” but the critics just never noticed. I set the mood with the acoustic guitar and that flamenco-like section. In a 2012 Rolling Stone interview, when talking about “Babe,” Jimmy Page praised Robert Plant’s Janis inspired vocal when he said, “ I knew exactly how that was going to shape up. He is paraphrasing from the first word, stretching the lyrics and altering the line, first in whispers, later in more strident declamation, while the acoustic guitars accompany.” Keith specifically claimed specifically, Janis’s howling cover of George Gershwin’s ‘Summertime” was the vocal template for “Babe” when he wrote, “P lant’s vocal, in particular, suggests close listening to Janis Joplin’s approach, if not her style. The best artists can perfectly honor a traditional song by inhabiting it’s aura and making the song sound just like their own Jimmy Page and Robert Plant did this with “Babe I’m Gonna Leave You.”Īlthough “Babe” was originally recorded by Joan Baez on her 1962 live album, yet, according to Keith Shadwick’s Led Zeppelin: The Story of a Band and Their Music 1968-1980, it was another blue-eyed soul singer that inspired Robert Plant’s achingly soaring vocal performance. But does that mean Jimi Hendrix’s interpretation of Bob Dylan’s “All Along the Watchtower” or his cover of “Hey Joe” aren’t his best performances on vinyl because those songs weren’t originals penned by the great guitarist? Nonsense, it’s all in the performance. Many would argue since “Babe” is a traditional folk song and not a Page and Plant original composition making it ineligible for greatest songs status. ![]() ![]() But there’s another acoustic song that I believe is worthy of the top spot as the greatest Led Zeppelin song of all time-1968’s “Babe I’m Gonna Leave You.” Don’t Forget the Songs-365: Mach Tres: Day 159Ī majority of Led Zeppelin fans would argue that “Stairway to Heaven” is not only the band’s most famous song but also the best song from their electrically charged canon.
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