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Led Zeppelin's music was rooted in the blues.

The influence of abrupt, non-fluid American blues of Howlin ' Wolf, Muddy Waters and Skip James was particularly apparent, especially on Led Zeppelin I and II.

Tracks were structured around the twelve-bar blues on every studio album except one, and the blues directly and indirectly influenced other songs both musically and lyrically.

The band were also strongly influenced by the music of the British, Celtic and American folk revivals.

Scottish folk guitarist Bert Jansch helped inspire Page, and from him he adapted open tunings and aggressive strokes into his playing.

The band also drew on a wide variety of genres, including world music, and elements of early rock and roll, jazz, country, funk, soul and reggae, particularly on Houses of the Holy and the albums that followed.