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 me Matt Everett and of course Robert Plant.

This episode concerns a song from Robert's group, Band of Joy.

Now Band of Joy is a name that surfaced more than once in his career, firstly in 1966,

when Robert fronted a group with that title performing out of the Midlands, the mighty John Bonham

would also take his place behind the drum kit with them for a while as well.

But in 2010 the name was revived for a new band.

This band would draw from a swirling mix of cover versions and

reinterpretations, dabbling in psychedelia, US and UK folk music, blues and swampy soul. What song are we tackling next? What are we going to turn our attention to?

This is Monkey from the album Band of Joy September 2010. The journey musically the zigzag of friends and brand new people in my time has been always been quite dynamic.

So following the Mighty Rearanger album and the great adventures with that with still strange sensation yet to change

their name. I went to America and with Bill Flanagan from VH1 was running a program called Crossroads so you could put

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