Led Zeppelin did not invent the blues.They did something far more dangerous. They used it — openly, aggressively, unapologetically — and in doing so exposed how deeply the blues already lived inside modern music. To understand Led Zeppelin, we have to strip away the mythology: the dragon suits, the occult imagery, the arena excess, the … Continue reading Led Zeppelin and the Blues: How Early 20th-Century Street Music Became Arena Thunder