[wardaddy]

It was spring of 1971 before I heard it...it had been released as an album around Christmas time but most all folks heard was Black Dog and Stairway to Heaven...and Rock and Roll some too that winter and early spring....I mean Stairway absolutely ate up summer of 1972 radio like Freebird would two summers later.

I can't recall first time exactly I heard Levee but it had something to do with bonfires and beer and of course weed being around and it was still chilly at night.

Girls and those old navy low rise bell bottoms and stuff...long straight hair and flat tummies

I was only 14 and it all seemed so exotic, just like Bonham’s perfect drum ride into the song...and that wailing harmonica

Perfection...that song sounds like a dark Mississippi night with rain and gloom

which was where I was precisely...minus the gloom

My kids not 40 years later love ..I mean love...that song too

Thanks John...and Minnie too...

[dfwgator]

Go figure, now the kids like their parents’ music. My son actually told me, “You’re so lucky, you had good music when you were growing up.”