** GREAT WHITE, Great Zeppelin: A Tribute to Led Zeppelin,
Deadline/Cleopatra, $16.98

With Jack Russell's dead-on Robert Plant voice, Great White makes the perfect Zeppelin cover band. On "Great Zeppelin" they tackle favorites like "D'yer Mak'er," "Going to California," and even (gasp!) "Stairway to Heaven." Recorded in a live setting, Russell adoringly introduces each track to the audience. The rest of the group -- most significantly, guitarist Mark Kendall -- manage to keep up in Zeppelin's trickier passages, but everything is so perfectly recreated, one wonders: why bother?

-- Beth Winegarner

This article was originally published in the San Francisco Chronicle.