S2E5: Carry Fire

Digging Deep with Robert Plant

Robert Plant

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

4.7 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2019

⏱️ 16 minutes

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In this episode we get to know the title track from Robert’s most recent album from 2017. Ably supported by The Sensational Space Shifters, it's another whirling blend of sounds and atmospheres, but lyrically it's a mysterious one. There’s definitely a romantic heart within the song somewhere, but who is it beating for? And why?

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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 hardly a plan.
0:20.0	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.
0:29.0	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.
0:45.0	For this podcast I'm going to be picking at some songs from here and there along the way,
0:51.0	mixing constant shifts and sound and intention from across
0:55.2	this long old time. There's a story in all of them. I'm Robert Plant and this is Digging Deep.
1:07.0	Welcome to this episode 11 of Digging Deep with Robert Plant.
1:11.0	As you may know, Robert chooses a song from his back catalogue and tells us the story of that song's
1:15.7	creation, the lyrical inspirations and preoccupations, how the musicians involved work together,
1:21.5	what the studio sessions were like, and now the song fits into the
1:24.4	ever evolving tapestry of Robert's musical output. This episode concerns a song from a very recent album
1:30.9	by Robert and the Sensational Space Shifters, a record that earned him some great reviews and
1:35.4	throw him off gathering disparate influences and styles once again and
1:39.6	finding a place where politics both social social and political, impacted on his work. So we are coming up to date not a mere a mere few months ago for the next song.
2:08.0	What are we going to tackle?
2:11.0	Well, tackling is a very good verb for it because there's no solution to this song.
2:18.0	There's no easement, there's no way out. There's nothing except for the facts. It's like Dragnet. It's the facts man. Just like they do for me. Well, so I do for you.
2:37.0	Yeah, so this is Carrie Fire from the album Carrie Fire from just yesterday, October 2017.
2:50.0	I've there my heart to you if you will understand.
3:01.0	The way that we've been constructing music the last couple of albums with the
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