Inspired by the beautiful Welsh hills, Page and Plant unleash their most intimate, acoustic, and folk side, which especially bursts forth in the second half of the album (but it starts with the beautiful "Friends"). Given that Led Zeppelin, as creators or interpreters of folk music, have always produced great work, we find four splendid songs one after the other: from their personal rendition of the traditional British "Gallows Pole" (which becomes a wild "dance") to the homage to their Welsh retreat in "Bron-Y-Aur Stomp," passing through two gems like "Tangerine" and "That's the Way." It's also true that the masterpiece of the album remains in the realms of the most intense Blues with the immense "Since I've Been Loving You." The album is also inspired in its electric/hard-rock tracks, where the evergreen "Immigrant Song" reigns. It concludes with a special tribute to a friend and an immense, yet always underappreciated, master, Roy Harper.
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