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 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 this episode six of Digging Deep with Robert Plant.

My name is Matt Everett and as you may know if you've heard the show before, this is the

podcast where Robert Plant digs into his incredible back catalog and picks one song to focus on and

kind of study and talk about where the inspiration came from the people he played with

and the kind of the legend behind the creation of some of these brilliant pieces of music.

Before we get stuck in we do have to say thank you for continuing to listen to the series.

It's something of an honor to do these, as you know, it's something that Robert really wanted to do himself

to kind of start documenting these tracks from his history and to see how popular the shows have become, you know, it's pretty great, so thank you very much.

So in this episode we turn our attention to an EP, in fact, not a song or a full album, but an EP released in September 1984.

Now it was made up of cover versions, all sung by Robert, but with this killer band of incredible musicians.

And the thing is this EP focused on a very specific era

of classic American do-op and jump blues.

Here's Robert explaining more. I'm yeah

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