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Digging Deep with Robert Plant

S2E3: Battle Of Evermore

Digging Deep with Robert Plant

Robert Plant

Music History, Plant, Robert, Led, Rock, Zeppelin, Music

4.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2019

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

One of the joys of this series is that we span the whole of Robert’s career so far. We also get to enjoy the rare pleasure of the man himself talking about Led Zeppelin. It’s always an honour and an enlightening experience. This episode tackles a song from their legendary fourth album. A beautiful song, a wonderful lyric and a haunting double vocal from a folk music heroine (we also find out what Robert calls the album - IV? Runes? Untitled? Four Symbols? Or what?).

This season will be accompanied by a limited edition vinyl single box set which collects 16 tracks from across his solo career across eight 7” singles. Pre-order now: https://lnk.to/RP_DiggingDeep_Vinyl

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Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:10.0

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

0:17.3

Harri a plan.

0:20.2

During the Zet years, I never imagined a full-scale album project without the other guys,

0:25.3

and even less the idea of new writing partners.

0:28.9

But then, since 1981, I've enjoyed many amazing exciting musicians in the sharing, in the writing, in production and engineering.

0:37.0

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

0:51.0

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.

0:56.4

There's a story in all of them.

1:00.4

I'm Robert Plant and this is Digging Deep.

1:06.0

Hello and welcome to Digging Deep with Robert Plant episode 9.

1:10.0

My name is Matt Everett. Thank you very much for listening.

1:13.5

So the track that Robert has chosen for this episode

1:16.6

is a beautiful song from one of the most famous rock albums

1:21.0

of all time.

1:21.8

In fact, it's more than just a rock album. That's partially

1:25.3

because this album embraced elements of acoustic and folk music and in its lyrics,

1:30.1

traditional storytelling, of which this song is a great example.

1:34.2

It's also the only song by the band in question to feature a guest vocalist alongside Robert. The The Queen of Light took her a girl power and then she turned to go.

2:01.0

The Prince of Peace and the peace, embrace the clue,

2:05.0

I'm more than I hello.

2:08.0

Doesn't the dark the white? This episode we're tackling the Battle of Evermore from Ledzette or Ledzette

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