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 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.

Welcome, welcome to episode 15 of Digging Deep.

As you might know, if you've heard the last couple of shows, this series is a

digging deep live special recorded during a conversation Robert and I did in front

of an audience at Rough Trade East record store in London. And as well as

talking about specific songs as always

Robert also answered questions submitted by his fans so there's those in this episode

as well this episode starts though with a cover version, another one, a brilliant, beautiful song written by Tim Buckley and released in 1970.

Over the years it's been covered by Shineded O'Connor, George Michael, Shishila Raman, Brian Brian Ferry and maybe most famously by this mortal coil in 1983.

Robert included his version on his 2002 album Dreamland and it might be one of his best vocal performances. This is Song to the Siren. Long, Long flowed on shipless ocean.

I did all my best to smile till your eyes and fingers

drew me loving to your eye.

Tim Buckley song, a masterpiece, I mean,

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