When The Levee Breaks - Other Versions

Other Versions

A number of other artists have covered the song or played it live:

• Page and Plant had performed it on their MTV Unplugged appearance and their 1995-96 world tour, swapping it with "Nobody's Fault but Mine" at times. John Paul Jones worked the song into the tour for his two solo albums.
• With Plant playing guitar along with T-Bone Burnett's band, Alison Krauss sang it for the CMT Crossroads TV special starring Plant and Krauss, to promote their album Raising Sand.
• Robert Plant and Alison Krauss regularly covered the song during their tour of USA and Europe in April and May 2008.
• Led Zeppelin parody cover band Dread Zeppelin covered it on 5,000,000.
• The London Philharmonic Orchestra performed a version of the Led Zeppelin cover on the CD Kashmir: Symphonic Led Zeppelin in 1997.
• Hardcore punk band Judge recorded a cover version during the sessions for their final EP There Will Be Quiet (1990). The song appeared first on the CD edition of the EP, and later on their anthology What It Meant: The Complete Discography.
• W.A.S.P. released a version on the bonus disk of The Crimson Idol in 1991.
• John Campbell covered it on his Howlin' Mercy album in 1993.
• Jeff Buckley covered it on the so-called Rarities from NYC (that contains some songs recorded on tape and never released) in 1996.
• Rosetta Stone covered it on the album An Eye For The Main Chance in 1991.
• Tori Amos played it on her 2005 world tour, at a concert in Austin, TX just days after the hurricane on September 2, 2005.
• Gov't Mule has been playing it in concert since 2005.
• A Perfect Circle included a version on their cover album eMOTIVe in 2004. There were few changes in lyrics but the melody was very different from Led Zeppelin's version.
• The drum part was the inspiration for Megaphone's song "Stain" from their 2005 album "For Cryin' Out Loud." The band also performs part of the song live at the end of "Stain."
• The Tuvan group Yat Kha performed a version on their 2005 album, Recovers, featuring throat singing effects by the group's lead singer, Albert Kuvezin.
• Bob Dylan recorded a adaptation under the name "The Levee's Gonna Break" for his 2006 album Modern Times.
• Film score composer John Powell on the soundtrack to the 2006 film Ice Age: The Meltdown.
• Kristin Hersh covered it on her 1994 EP "Strings".
• Stream of Passion recorded a cover of the song for their single Out In The Real World and their live album Live in the Real World.
• Stanton Moore recorded a version without lyrics on his album III released in 2006.
• Buckwheat Zydeco recorded this song on their May 5, 2009 release Lay Your Burden Down. This version features blues slide guitarist Sonny Landreth.
• Down performed it as a cover during their BBC Session, April 22, 2008.
• Bonerama has performed it live along with other Led Zeppelin songs.
• Blues Traveler front-man John Popper covered this song frequently on his 1999 tour
• A version by Roadsaw is featured on the compilation Sucking the 70's – Back in the Saddle Again