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 set 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 back to Digging Deep with Robert Plant and this is season 5.

My name is Matt Everett and I'm very pleased to be back here with another series in which Robert Plant

will revisit his own remarkable back catalogue to investigate and evaluate and celebrate some of his songs.

As you'll know, if you've been listening to the previous seasons, we spend the whole of Robert's career

so far, touching down at different points from way back when to right now.

So cover versions, album tracks, lost gems, much love classics, and even music from Raise the Roof,

the latest album by Robert and Alison Kraus.

And in the last season, we spoke about getting Alison on as a guest on this show,

so we might even try and make that happen.

We're going to cover a lot of grounds in this season, but as always,

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