Blackwater Side

Fire Draw Near by Fire Draw Near

Jun 20, 202500:52:14Music

This episode looks at the ballad Blackwater Side aka Blackwaterside aka Down by Blackwaterside and the journey that it took from a Traveller site outside Belfast in 1952 to the first Led Zeppelin LP. A winding river of a...

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