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Rating: It's pointless to hide behind a finger, time has left his body almost intact, but has decided to take his voice: here is the new millennium version of Robert Plant. Don't ask him to hit the high notes, he can't do it anymore, and above all, he doesn't want to. Calm, reflective, spiritual: he is an absolute concentration of class, just as the ten tracks are classy, four of which are original and six are highly reworked covers, composed of this album, released in 2002.
Standing out among his companions are Porl "I played the guitar in The Cure!” Thompson, who contributes to some episodes (the sound is unmistakable), and John "I played the keyboards in Portishead” Baggott. At the base of all the pieces is Delta Blues, which transforms and merges with typically Mediterranean musicality. In “Win My Train Fare Home (If I Ever Get Lucky),” for example, Robert becomes the muezzin of Chicago: pentatonic and Arabic melody chasing each other along unexpected paths. Inevitably, there are also Folk references (see Led Zeppelin III and IV). A certain dreamlike dimension shines through the entire album, sometimes with a twilight and extremely intense touch (at times poignant), other times close to a paranoid nightmare.
The best tracks are “Morning Dew” (absolutely spine-tingling when Plant sings “uh uuuh uhhh”), “Song To The Siren” (complete with a “Cure sound” from the lead guitar), “Darkness Darkness”: they give me a sensation of fluidity, of a journey to embark on when dawn arrives, while watching a crimson sunset. The arrangements of the tracks are very rich, but never heavy: the mix is always very enjoyable. Among the covers, there is also “Hey Joe”, which becomes a paranoic nightmare brought to paroxysm, in which the guitars scourge the air (with a tribute to the sound of Hendrix in the use of an unmistakable Stratocaster and some riffs). If you're wondering if there's anything of the Robert Plant we used to know, I'd say that "Last Time I Saw Her" and “Red Dress” are practically Led Zeppelin tracks. The judgment can't be anything but flattering, I recommend downloading it, making it yours, and then purchasing it, as it's the classic album that sneaks into the player when you don't know what else to put on.
Tracklist and Lyrics
02 Morning Dew (04:26)
Walk me out in the morning dew my honey Walk me out in the morning dew today; Can't walk you out in the morning dew my honey Can't walk you out in the morning dew today! Thought I heard a young girl cry mama, Thought I heard a young girl cry today- You didn't hear no young girl crying mama, You didn't hear no young girl cry today! Thought I heard a young man cry mama- Thought I heard a young man cry today- You didn't hear no young man crying mama You didn't hear no young man cry today! Now, there's no more morning dew Now, there's no more morning dew- What they've been saying all these years is true Now, there's no more morning dew!
07 Darkness, Darkness (07:25)
Darkness, Darkness, be my pillow
Take my head and let me sleep
In the coolness of your shadow
In the silence of your deep
Darkness, Darkness, hide my yearnin'
For the things I can not see
Keep my mind from constant turnin'
Tto the things I cannot be
Darkness, Darkness, be my blanket
Cover me with this endless night
Take away, oh, this pain of knowing
Fill this emptiness with light, emptiness with light now
Darkness, Darkness, long and lonesome
Is the day that brings me here
I have felt the edge of sadness
I have known the depths of fear
Darkness, Darkness, be my blanket
Cover me with the endless night
Take away, oh, this pain of knowing
Fill this emptiness with light now, emptiness with light now, now
Mmm
Darkness, Darkness, be my blanket
Cover me with the endless night
Take away, oh, this pain of knowing
Fill this emptiness with light now, oh, with light now
Darkness, Darkness, be my pillow
Take my head and let me sleep
In the coolness of your shadow
In the silence of your deep
In the silence of your deep
In the, oh, oh, hey
Oh, mmm
In the summer, baby
Ooh, yeah
Ooh, in the summber, baby
In the summer, baby
Ooh, ah, ooh, yeah
Oh, oh, come on, come on, come on, come on baby
Come on, come on, come on, come on baby
Come on, come on, come on, come on baby
Ooh, oh, ooh, yeah
Oh, oh, ooh
In the summertime, baby
In the summertime, baby
09 Hey Joe (07:12)
Hey Joe, where you goin' with that gun in your hand?
Hey Joe, where you goin' with that gun in your hand?
Goin' out to shoot my lady You know I caught her messin' 'round with another man
Goin' out to shoot my lady You know I caught her messin' 'round with another man
Hey Joe, you know I heard you shot your woman down
Hey Joe, you know I heard you shot your woman down
Yes, I did, I shot her, you know I caught her messin' 'round
Yes, I did, I shot her, you know I caught her messin' 'round
Hey Joe, where you gonna run to now?
Hey Joe, where you gonna run to now?
I'm gonna run, gonna run, gonna run, to the gallows pole
I'm gonna run, gonna run, gonna run, the hangman can't put a rope around me
anyhow...
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