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“If it keeps on raining, the levee’s going to break…”

Well…yeah, I always wanted to use that line in a title…but, there are no levees out here in Muskegon so I guess the rain that is going on today could be: “if it keeps on raining, the snow is going to melt” since most of the snow out here should be gone after today…I know, much less drama to say the snow is melting versus the levees failing in 1927 along the Mississippi that flooded 26,000 square miles of the Mississippi delta, killed hundreds of people, and forced hundreds of thousands to evacuate. My whole reason for talking about this is that John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin put together one of those world inclusive songs that included people from around the world playing it in real time over the internet…and I saw it yesterday on one of the news services I read…and I learned that the song was written in 1929 by Joe McCoy and Memphis Minnie and when Zeppelin changed it for Zep 4, they credited the original writers as they did whenever they recorded a song done by one of black blues artists….it’s very seldom that anything can keep my attention for 6+ minutes on the internet but this video did…very cool….