The credit for songwriting the lemon song was originally given to both jimmy page and robert plant.
Killing floor howlin wolf meaning.
The led zeppelin song that i chose to focus on is the lemon song and compare it to howlin wolf s killing floor.
Album chess blues vol 4.
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Killing floor howlin wolf.
I have heard the howlin wolf version of killing floor here s what i think.
The killing floor is where animals are slaughtered at a meat packing facility.
Hear me tell you people just before i go these hard times will kill you just dry long so.
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Killing floor killing floor is a song by american blues singer songwriter and guitarist howlin wolf.
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The singer has messed around around with a bad woman and has wound up killing someone.
The song was placed on the 1969 album led zeppelin ii.
I should a quit you a long time ago.
The artist is comparing his present dilemma as an animal on the killing floor.
Howlin wolf recorded killing floor in 1964 which chess records released as a single.
Called one of the defining classics of chicago electric blues killing floor has been recorded by a variety of artists and has been acknowledged by the blues foundation hall of fame.
The family would continue this by calling the young man the wolf.
It s possible that wolf picked up this use of killing floor to mean depression from the skip james song which is a haunting ode to the killing stress of severe poverty.
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Down on the killing floor that means a woman has you down she went out of her way to try to kill you.
The killing floor is a place where animals are butchered.
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Produced by willie dixon phil chess leonard chess.
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The original killing floor was about a guy moaning that he didn t take off with another woman who came up to see him from mexico and now he is stuck in a relationship he can t get out of.
The lemon song is obviously about not being able to leave a destructive woman perhaps due to the great sex she provides.
The name howlin wolf originated from burnett s maternal grandfather who would admonish him for killing his grandmother s chicks from reckless squeezing by warning him that wolves in the area would come and get him.
