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

Harri 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.

Hello and welcome to another episode episode 8 of Digging Deep with Robert Plant.

I'm Matt Everett and this week we have an interesting collaboration for you.

Not an album released under Robert's own name, but one where he co-wrote two songs for the named

artist and supplied backing vocals for one, which is what we're about to hear. This is Ohio from Patty Griffin's American Kid album from 2013. They need the evening where the river is low.

This next piece is taken from a Patty Griffin album American Kid which came out in 2013.

It was the album that she developed and worked on in North Mississippi

actually with two brothers called the North Mississippi All Stars, Cody and Luther, in a great studio

in the middle of nowhere. It's a fantastic record and during that time she and I were very, we hung out together a lot and she was

developing her songs and she'd say, well what do you think about this? I was able to give an opinion a couple of times and just

put a little bit of a point here and there to a song and which was taken on board and this particular song was

the one that she,

songwriting, and her,

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