ROBERT PLANT
Digging Deep ESPARANZA
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Percy on 45! A boxset of 7”s traces Plant’s post-Zep progress.
2004, Robert Plant found himself back in the Misty Mountains. He was near Aberystwyth, not far from the Bron Yr Aur cottage where he and Jimmy Page wrote Led Zeppelin III many years previously. Among the new batch of songs he was working on at the time, “Tin Pan Valley” found Plant taking complacent rock gentry to task in no uncertain terms. “My peers may flirt with cabaret, some fake the rebel yell,” he sings. “Me, I’m moving up to higher ground, I must escape their hell.” The music accompanying “Tin Pan Valley” –
