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.

Hello and welcome to Digging Deep with Robert Plant.

I'm Matt Everett and this is episode two. This is the series where Robert's going to be

delving into his back catalogue to look at specific songs that mark these

interesting stops across his own musical journey.

And today's conversation takes place in a pub,

in northwest London, which is always a fantastic place

to do an interview.

And we revisit an album from only a couple of years ago recorded by Robert and his band The Sensational Space Shifters,

but we started off our conversation by talking about the dangers of going back and revisiting your back catalog. The dangers of revisiting the past. Turning up, making records is a very personal and probably emotionally driven experience and doing shows is a it's almost like a kind of a

gladiatorial thing to do the number of shows that we have been doing. But then opening up of it's kind of interesting because I actually haven't been particularly

concentrating on a lot of the material from way back and now I start to listen to it

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