It's a sensitive delicatial 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 Zet 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.

Welcome to episode 5 of Digging Deep with Robert Plant.

I'm Matt Everett and this is the podcast

where Robert Plant uses a different song from his back catalog

and digs deep into the story behind the track, the inspiration, the lyrics, the stories of

collaboration and creation that mark different stops in the musical roadmap of his life and career thus far.

In this episode we're looking at a song from an album collaboration that was released in 2007.

It topped the critics lists, it went platinum, it won a serious

amount of grammys, but this isn't just the story of some duets. This is the story of

immersing herself in the very lifeblood of American folk music as Robert explains. This is nothing from the Allison Kraus's Robert Plant album Raising Sand from 2007. Hey Mama when you leave

Don't leave

Tans Van Zand

I've so how much did I know really about the underbelly of American music?

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