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 Zephyers, 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, you're listening to Digging Deep with Robert Plant and me, Matt Everett.

As you may know, if you've listened to previous episodes on this podcast, each show is

based around a conversation between me and Robert Plant about a song from his back catalogue.

That's the basic version, but we touch on collaborations, the art of singing, our passion

for music, lives led, loves had histories made the past, our future and whatever strange

characters and memories kind of go past our view while we chat.

But really, it always returns to the music.

This is a very special episode and something we've been trying to make happen for quite

a while.

When we started the podcast in 1858 or however long it was, actually it was May 2019, Robert

and I covered tracks from Raising Sand, the album that Robert did with Alison Kraus in 2007

now, as we know that album was huge, sold a lot of copies, won a lot of awards, but more

than any of those things, it featured some amazing performances produced by T-bone Burnett

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