Down By The Water and Leadbelly's Salty Dog

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Down By The Water and Leadbelly's Salty Dog

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Blackdove24 in this recent lively discussion on Livejournal:
http://community.livejournal.com/pjharvey/492557.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

cites Down By The Water along with Leadbelly's Salty Dog on this site:
http://www.whosampled.com/sample/view/3 ... lty%20Dog/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Specifically the "Little Fish, Big Fish" lyric. I'm pretty sure Leadbelly is singing "quarter" instead of "daughter" though. Pretty imaginative of Polly to pick up that line though.

He also cites the beat in Polly and Eric's Zaz Turned Blue as being a sample of Portishead's Glory Box. Can anyone confirm that?

That's a pretty cool site:
http://www.whosampled.com/artist/PJ%20Harvey/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I'm sure we could add to the list. It's odd that the site lists this:
http://www.pj-harvey.de/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

as the "official" PJ Harvey site (it actually goes here: http://www.songwriters.de/pjharvey/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;).
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Re: Down By The Water and Leadbelly's Salty Dog

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DrDark wrote:He also cites the beat in Polly and Eric's Zaz Turned Blue as being a sample of Portishead's Glory Box. Can anyone confirm that?
Spot on.
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