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Down the Tracks: The Music That Influenced Led Zeppelin (dir. Stephen Gammond)

Bob Ruggiero, Houston Press, 6 January 2009

EVEN THE MOST naïve and surface Led Zeppelin listener tell you at least that they were influenced "by the blues." But this insightful and surprisingly solid documentary goes way further in delving into the sound and the performers which were in the minds (and on the home stereos) of Mssrs. Page and Plant, both in their youths and while recording some of the greatest rock music ever.

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