25 July 2021
There s much more to folk rock than its hey nonny nonny roots, as Jimmy Page will attest. These ten essential albums prove it
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Rock musicians spent half the 1960s nicking ideas off the folkies. You only have to take a brief listen to Jimmy Page’s
Black Mountain Side instrumental on Led Zeppelin’s 1969 debut alongside folk guitarist Bert Jansch’s
Black Water Side (see what he done there?) on his 1966 album,
Jack Orion, to realise that they are even closer than the (not so) subtle title change suggests.
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