It's a sensitive delicate deal, dragging brand new songs out of the sky.

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, my name is Matt Everett, and I'm very pleased to be welcoming you to episode 2,

season 4 of Digging Deep with Robert Plant.

In this podcast, Robert chooses a track from his back catalogue, and we journey through

its creation, stopping along the way at various checkpoints and hostilities to muse deeper

into the world from which it's sprang.

The day is a song called Rude World, like a few of the songs in the podcast, its collaboration,

and like all of the songs in the podcast, there's an interesting story attached.

The track was written by Rainer Tajek, a singer, songwriter, and remarkable slide guitar player

from Tuscan Arizona.

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