Song Spotlight: Descending (The Black Crowes)
**Cross-posted from ADT Music ** Song: Descending ( listen ) Album: Amorica (1994) ( listen ) Artist: The Black Crowes When it comes to using the blues as a modern rock influence The Black Crowes are not unique. The Brits got there long before any white Americans did, under the guidance of bands like The Yardbirds and Led Zeppelin , infusing one of the few, truly original American music forms with pop, folk, and rock essences that made it accessible to mainstream listeners. In doing so most of these bands brought the notion of riff-based song structures to popular music (a form that is at the heart of blues). In some cases, the songs lifted the lyrics and riffs of blues staples directly, adding electric instrumentation, percussion, and decidedly more robust vocals. (See, for example, Led Zeppelin's Bring It On Home ( listen ), which opens with a direct, musical homage to the original , offering song credits to Willie Dixon in the pro...