Nandi Bushell is coming for Mozart’s legacy. The internet’s favourite budding musician has unleashed her latest cover, a searing rendition of Led Zeppelin classic, ‘Immigrant Song’.
Bushell recorded to cover in celebration of guitarist Jimmy Page’s 77th birthday. The ambitious performance sees Bushell tackle drums, guitar and bass duty, all masterfully put together on a loop.
If you didn’t think it could get any more wholesome, you’d be wrong. In the description for the cover, Bushell admitted that she first heard the 1970 track in School of Rock. Check Nandi in action out below.
Check out Nandi Bushell covering ‘Immigrant Song’ by Led Zeppelin
If you’re unfamiliar with the work of the musical whizzkid, you’re in for the real treat. Nandi Bushell was the one tonic to cut through the unceasing bleakness of 2020. The prodigious musician won over our hearts with her covers, and engaged in a particularly heated drum battle with Foo Fighters legend Dave Grohl.
Over a few weeks, Grohl and Bushell took part in a neck and neck drum-off that saw them both cut their teeth playing tracks from the Dave Grohl repertoire.
Bushell first challenged Grohl to a drum-off back in August, after delivering a blistering cover of Fooeys anthem ‘Everlong.’ Grohl responded to the challenge by uploading a performance of Them Crooked Vultures ‘Dead End Friends’ — which Bushell met with perfect recreation.
To celebrate her virtuosic talents, Grohl enlisted the help of the Grohlettes (his daughters) to perform a theme song specifically penned for Nandi. “She got the power/ She got the soul/ Gonna save the world with her rock & roll!” the song went. Eventually, Grohl admitted defeat, and Nandi Bushell took out the crowning glory.
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“She’s beating the crap out of her drum set, and when she does drum rolls, she screams,” Grohl said, musing on Nandi’s cover of Nirvana’s 1991 track ‘In Bloom’. “I was like, oh my God, this kid is a force of nature.”
Grohl is far from the only rock legend to praise young Nandi Bushell. She’s also copped kudos from Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine and Muse.
