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 song, this episode looks at its multiple obscure sources as well as its many meandering tributaries.

Tracklist

Led Zeppelin – Black Mountain Side

Bert Jansch – Blackwaterside

Anne Briggs – Blackwaterside

Isla Cameron – Blackwaterside

Mary Doran – Down by Blackwaterside

Paddy Tunney – Blackwaterside

Harry Upton – In Wayward Town

Wash Nelson – Last May Morn

Spriguns – Blackwaterside

Landless – Blackwaterside

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