Kansas Joe McCoy & Memphis Minnie - When the Levee Breaks

Kansas Joe McCoy & Memphis Minnie
Song Name: When the Levee Breaks
By: Kansas Joe McCoy & Memphis Minnie
Song Local Name: Not available
Album: Not available
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Genre: folk music of United States of America , blues , country blues , traditional blues
Date Added: 22 Oct 2017
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"When the Levee Breaks" is a blues song written and first recorded by husband and wife Kansas Joe McCoy and Memphis Minnie in 1929. The song is in reaction to the upheaval caused by the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927. It destroyed many homes and devastated the agricultural economy of the Mississippi Basin. Many people were forced to flee to the cities of the Midwest in search of work, contributing to the "Great Migration" of African Americans in the first half of the 20th century.

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