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Title: Sixty Six to Timbuktu
Release date: 11 April, 2003
Record label: Atlantic
Single: Darkness, Darkness
Official website: Robert Plant
Buy at: Amazon

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Tracklisting

Disc: 1
1. Tie Dye On The Highway
2. Upside Down
3. Promised Land
4. Tall Cool One
5. Dirt In A Hole
6. Calling To You
7. Palms
8. If I Were A Carpenter
9. Sea Of Love
10. Darkness, Darkness
11. Big Log
12. Ship Of Fools
13. I Believe
14. Little By Little
15. Heaven Knows
16. Song To The Siren
Disc: 2
1. You'd Better Run
2. Our Song
3. Hey Joe
4. For What It's Worth
5. Operator
6. Road To The Sun
7. Philadelphia Baby
8. Red For Danger
9. Let's Have A Party
10. Hey Jayne
11. Louie, Louie
12. Naked If I Want To
13. 21 Years
14. If It's Really Got To Be This Way
15. Rude World
16. Little Hands
17. Life Begin Again
18. Let The Boogie Woogie Roll
19. Win My Train Fare Home (Live In Timbuktu)

Robert Plant - Sixty Six to Timbuktu

Slipping themselves into the middle of the bill at one of Roger Daltrey's Teenage Cancer Trust shows at the Albert Hall early in 2002, Robert Plant and his new band Strange Sensation offered a tantalising glimpse of the music they'd been working up for Plant's new album, Dreamland.

Demonstrating that classic music can always breed fresh possibilities, they resurrected a selection of vintage folk, blues and psychedelic songs, then peeled them open and rebuilt them using Middle Eastern scales, Asian drones and hard rock. Plant, the tumble-haired icon from the Led Zeppelin years, stood at the centre of this eclectic dust-storm like a magician exerting mysterious control over the elements.

Plant has never lost the urge to keep exploring. He takes the view that his past achievements will always be there for anyone who wants to check them out, so now he might as well exploit the freedom his successes now afford him. He doesn't mind ripping everything up and starting again. "My music has got to be an honest reflection of where I'm coming from today."

Since the demise of Led Zeppelin in 1980, he has released a sequence of solo albums which have been frequently impressive and always interesting, not least 1990's Manic Nirvana or 1993's absorbing Fate Of Nations. His plan is for a more spontaneous, improvisatory approach. He had to find musicians who understood where he was coming from, yet also willing to pick up the ball and run with it to destinations nobody could possibly predict. The sprinkling of original pieces on the new album are credited to "Robert Plant and band", reflecting the power-sharing nature of the relationship.

Plant ponders, "I don't know whether there's a place for me within contemporary pop culture or if there's a place for it in my head now, but I know there's an energy about this music and a style which is worth pursuing and pushing a bit more. There's a kind of musical empathy I haven't been aware of for a long time."

Nobody can predict how far Strange Sensation might travel, but the Dreamland album suggests countless possibilities for further mystic exploration.

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