#457 Benjamin Booker and Opinions on Robert Plant
Sound Opinions
Sound Opinions
4.3 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2014
⏱️ 58 minutes
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New Orleans singer-guitarist Benjamin Booker talks about his blues influences and opening for Jack White and plays songs from his self-titled debut. Later hosts Jim and Greg review the new album from former Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant.
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| 0:00.0 | You gotta understand something here. This music is the glue of the world. It holds it all together. |
| 0:06.0 | Without this, life would be meaningless. What are you getting so crazy about? It's just music. |
| 0:27.0 | Benjamin Booker got his start in journalism, but instead of following in our footsteps as a rock critic, |
| 0:39.0 | he's on his way to becoming a rock star. |
| 0:41.0 | I'm Greg Kot and I'm Jim D de Regattis. The New Orleans blues singer |
| 0:45.1 | Benjamin Booker joins us to perform songs from his self-titled debut. Then we've |
| 0:49.3 | got a new one from the Golden God Robert Plant. That's all coming up on sound opinions. |
| 0:54.4 | This is sound opinions and later on in the show, Jim, |
| 1:02.3 | we're going to talk about this new Robert Plant album and I know people have been going on and on for the last few years about when is Robert Plant going to get back together again with Led Zeppelin and frankly I don't really care about Led Zeppelin anymore. I don't think |
| 1:14.2 | Robert Plant does in terms of making new music that you can get excited about. |
| 1:18.8 | Well it could never be Zeppelin without Bonham. |
| 1:20.6 | Exactly but I am looking forward to new Robert Plant music because he's |
| 1:23.9 | consistently challenging himself whereas maybe like Jimmy a new Jimmy Page |
| 1:28.1 | album wouldn't get me nearly as excited. No. We're going to talk about that later on in |
| 1:32.3 | the show but first we've got some |
| 1:33.7 | music news. |
| 1:34.7 | I'm lightning on the feet and that's what they don't see. |
| 1:39.7 | That's what they don't see. |
| 1:43.0 | I'm dancing on my own. |
| 1:45.0 | I make the moves up as a girl. |
| 1:49.0 | And that's what they don't know. |
| 1:52.0 | Mm-hmm, that's what they don't know. |
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