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 Zeppies, 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 on 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 season 4 of Digging Deep with Robert Plant Episode 5.

So another episode and another song.

Now sometimes you just know certain musicians will end up working together.

There's just something in the world they create where they overlap that you're sure

they're going to do something together.

In 2001, Robert's eclectic passions for music from all genres and all countries were

started to kind of coalesce into what would be his dream land album, done with his band

Strange Sensation.

And the same year, Afro-Kelt Sound System were working on their third record, Volume 3

further in time, which, like its predecessors, blended African rhythms with folk melodies

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