In My Time of Dying aka Jesus Make Up My Dying Bed (or a variation thereof) is a traditional gospel music song that has been recorded by numerous musicians. The lyrics Jesus goin a-make up my dyin bed appear in historian Robert Emmet Kennedys Mellows – A Chronicle of Unknown Singers published in 1925, on Louisiana street performers, and also listed in the Cleveland Librarys Index to Negro Spirituals. They refer to a deathbed and were inspired by a passage in the Bible from Psalms 41:3 The Lord will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing, thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness. The song gained greater prominence in popular music when Bob Dylan included a version wth the slightly different title In My Time of Dyin on his 1962 eponymous debut album. Led Zeppelins In My Time of Dying was released on their sixth album Physical Graffiti; it is the third song on the album, and closes Side 1 of the albums original double-LP configuration. At 11:06, it is the longest studio track on any Led Zeppelin studio album, but contains no long instrumental passages despite its extended timing. As Physical Graffiti was exceptionally successful commercially, achieving RIAA 16x Platinum status, Led Zeppelins rendition of the song is probably the most widely known. Physical Graffitis credits list the four members of Led Zeppelin as the songs authors, despite the earlier released versions of the song. Jimmy Pages guitar tuning for this song is an open A chord (E / A / E / A / C# / E low to high), and (along with When the Levee Breaks and Traveling Riverside Blues) it is one of the most recognisable instances of Pages slide playing on a Led Zeppelin recording. John Paul Jones played a fretless bass. John Bonhams drums were recorded with a distinctive reverb effect, in the same manner as on the track When the Levee Breaks from Led Zeppelins fourth album. In My Time of Dying was played during Led Zeppelins 1975 and 1977 concert tours, where Robert Plant sarcastically dedicated the song to the British Labour Partys Chancellor of the Exchequer, Denis Healey, for the tax exile issues the band was facing. When played live, the band tuned the song down by a tone. //Tony
Posted on: Tue, 09 Sep 2014 17:40:32 +0000
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