Robert Plant

On one of his best solo effort ever, Robert Plant takes Tim Buckley's "The Siren Song" to heaven, tours purgatory with Dylan's "One More Cup of Coffee" and recasts Hendrix's "Hey Joe" in Hades. Even on these cover songs, Plant can't help tripping to his own light fantastic.

Back when he was the voice of Led Zeppelin, Robert Plant's enthusiasms included country
blues, Middle Eastern music and Sixties folk. These days, his taste in songs remains the
same, but the way he plays them has changed. While the inspirations for Dreamland --
Bukka White, Tim Buckley, Jesse Colin Young -- seem very Led Zeppelin III, there's nothing
Zeppelinesque about the music. A disappointment? Not if you prefer Plant in ball... More >

Gonna give you every inch of my erectile dysfunction ("One More Cup of Coffee," "Darkness, Darkness") (Grade - *)