Tonight’s featured artists in an age where suing everyone for songs rights was the norm our guys admitted to another band one of their songs had a large influence by the sound of one they had written and the other band replied “we don’t hear it, no need to pay us a penny” Any guess the songs or bands??

The song in question was Mountains ‘Mississippi Queen’ A great song about a seductive woman who teaches the singer a thing or two about the ways of love. Songfacts notes a quote from Mountain guitarist Leslie West: "When Corky (Laing, drummer) brought me the idea, it was a one-chord dance song. We got real high, took out a napkin, and I came up with the main riff and the chords. Then we fit the words over the sound." Laing says of the song: "I was madly in love with ‘The Band’, and I decided to put a ‘Cripple Creek’ feel behind it. Later on, I told Levon Helm that I felt bad about ripping him off, but he said that he didn't hear any similarity between the 2 songs, and that we didn't owe them any money!"

See what you think, does it sound like 'Up On Cripple Creek'?

 

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