It's a sensitive delicate deal dragging brand new songs out of the sky, trading ideas,

trading ideas, accepting some, storing others in the maybe later bag, moving on and along with hardly a plan.

During the Zep years, I never imagined a full-scale album project without the other guys and even less the idea of new writing partners. But then, since 1981, I've enjoyed many amazing exciting musicians in the sharing, in the writing, in production and engineering.

Men and women who encouraged and enlightened, introducing me to crazy curves I could never have imagined.

For this podcast I'm going to be picking out some songs from here and there along the way,

mixing constant shifts and sound and

intention from across this long old time. There's a story in all of them.

I'm Robert Plant and this is Digging Deep.

This is the first episode of a new podcast called Digging Deep with Robert Plant and I'm here with Robert

Plant. You got that one right? Yeah. Okay. How are you sir? I'm good yeah pretty good

excited for several reasons. Spring is really kicking really hard, which is beautiful.

And I would hate maybe to use the word premature, but it's very fast.

It's things are moving very quickly.

I'm excited because I've been able to submit one of my favorite albums of my own time, through my own time, to Record

Store Day, which is the 1993 Fate of Nations, which was a big turning point for me in my changes as a singer and a writer.

Yeah.

Okay, so this whole series, what was the idea behind it?

Why did you choose to, why is now the right time to sort of look back at the whole of your career thus far do you think?

Um, well, I suppose really I meet a lot of people along the way, but not a lot. lot yeah a lot and they say hey what about that why don't you play some of those songs from what happened after the passing of Led Zeppelin for the next 20 years after that. There was some very interesting changes and

swoops and sweeps. I played with a lot of very challenging musicians and

we worked very hard to try and create a footprint in those various times and to be, I wouldn't say more mature but more broad, broad-minded.

So I guess really I was moving through the spheres pretty quickly from

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