The intro and first half of Led Zeppelin's 'When The Levee Breaks' is swampy, menacing, and drips with southern delta blues mojo.
The first 2m 26 seconds are stunning but I think all goes a bit tits up when they bring on the major key notes at 2m 26s, after that I'm not so keen until it goes back to the main groove but it really is a great song.
I hear shades of this in Johnny Marr's slide playing and on The Smiths 'How Soon Is Now?'
It doesn't sound much like Memphis Minnie's version who they credited it to (although she didn't write it)
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what's that all about? Tape glitch?
No automation back then, maybe someone accidentally took the mute off a tom mic or some other mic close to the HH very briefly during mixdown