QUEEN with Robert Plant - This Thing Called Love

 QUEEN with Robert Plant - This Thing Called Love

CLASSIC SONGS revisited ‘MORNING DEW’ by Bonnie Dobson

 

Robert Plant tells the story of how he first met the Canadian folk singer Bonnie Dobson: “A few years ago I bumped into Bert Jansch – I dared to knock on his dressing room door. Anyway, it was fine, and we found amazing similarities in roots and influences from the places we’d been. It was a beautiful thing. It reminded me that in the 60s I used to sing this song, with Band Of Joy, that was immortalised by Tim Rose and the Grateful Dead.

"Later I recorded it [with Strange Sensation on 2002’s Dreamland]. And now there’s a knock on my door, and there’s this lady standing there who says: ‘Hello, Robert. You’re singing my song.’ That was the great Bonnie Dobson, and the song is called Morning Dew.” 

Plant wasn’t the first to record Morning Dew. The song has a colourful history, not least because Tim Rose usurped the credits and some publishing royalties in 1967 – and Dobson wouldn’t be recognised as the sole writer for more than 30 years.

Read on:

https://www.loudersound.com/music/tracks-singles/bonnie-dobson-morning-dew?fbclid=IwdGRjcAQRE3hleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZA8xNzM4NDc2NDI2NzAzNzAAAR41DnUv-yw6_XBGZz5VD0WO0OaPs2jENLeglXT4cgKM192ykVYovpWco7z6WA_aem_ReOeS3571fbJm-ltUWzHBA 

Morning Dew by Tim Rose I first heard by Tim . . . . .great version

Here’s the original - Bonnie Dobson

The Grateful Dead - best live

Jeff Beck - from the Truth album which we still thought was him covering the Tim Rose ‘original’!

sorry Bonnie!

Robert Plant & The Strange Sensation Isle Of Wight - 2002

Now let’s start the day proper with this; thanks to DIAMOND DAVE | 'Saving Grace' Robert Plant and ensemble at NPR (5 songs)

 So Diamond Dave dropped by to say had I seen the Robert Plant Tiny Desk Concert over at NPR knowing how much a fan I am of the latest band  and Robert’s extraordinary journey in music . . . . . 

 . . . . . you know what I hadn’t . . . . but I have now and it contains some of my favourite roots and Americana tracks (Gallows Pole, Gospel Plough and of course the Moby Grape track I [posted the other day It’s a Beautiful Day ) although as Robert points out they are Englisharcana! They all live nearby on the English Welsh border known as The Black Country (where Robert was born)

Robin Hilton | November 21, 2025

When Robert Plant first stepped behind the Tiny Desk on a blustery Halloween afternoon, he took stock of the relatively stripped-down setup. "This is just like Live Aid," he said with a smile. "I couldn't hear myself there either." He was referring to the fact we don't amplify voices or use monitors so artists can hear themselves.

But if ever there was someone up to the challenge, it's Robert Plant. With a voice that's only gotten better with age, Plant has deftly moved from the full-throated rock and swagger of Led Zeppelin to the more restrained and profoundly beautiful folk, blues and roots music found on more recent recordings. His latest solo album, Saving Grace, is a collection of covers that range from the traditional spiritual "Gospel Plough" to "It's A Beautiful Day Today" by Moby Grape, a psychedelic rock band that, Plant says, still makes him "weepy."

Plant and his band perform both songs for this set, along with a version of "Higher Rock" by the singer-songwriter Martha Scanlan and Low's "Everybody's Song." They close with a new arrangement of "Gallows Pole," another traditional Plant first reinterpreted for the Led Zeppelin III album in 1969.

SET LIST

"Gospel Plough"

"Higher Rock"

"Everybody's Song"

"It's a Beautiful Day Today"

"Gallows Pole"

MUSICIANS

Robert Plant: vocals, harmonica

Suzi Dian: vocals, accordion 

Matt Worley: guitar, banjo, cuatro, background vocals 

Tony Kelsey: guitar

Barney Morse-Brown: cello

Oli Jefferson: drums

This is what they page is all about! Recommendations from visitors and other blogs we check out. Stunning nay AWESOME performances mostly live and lifted from the blogosphere to encourage the sharing of ROIOs and live performances  This is it!

Robert Plant - It's a Beautiful Day Today (Album Version) SAVING GRACE | Nonesuch Records

 The Album version to close the day . . . . . . 

Robert Plant and Saving Grace perform "It's a Beautiful Day Today," from the album 'Saving Grace,' out now on Nonesuch Records: https://robertplant.lnk.to/savinggrace

Robert Plant & Alison Krauss Perform “Can’t Let Go” | CMT Crossroads

Someone posted a clip of this on Flickennabokk and I don’t think I would ever NOT post it when coming across it . . . . . . As close as an atheist gets to heaven! 

Robert Plant & Alison Krauss Perform “Can’t Let Go” | CMT Crossroads

so I will sign off the weekend with this peerless beauties! I LOVE this!

Robert Plant ft. Imelda May - Rock And Roll (Later with Jools Holland)

 Now we’re talking! . . . we like a little rockabilly as we established and who better than Robert Plant to revisit his roots in both incarnations! Rock ’N’ Roll! YOU KNOW IT!

This . . . . . ha ha ha ha ha . . . . . . from Robert Plant!

 

Song of the Day/Week/Month/YEAR!? | Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Can’t Let Go :: N.P.R. Tiny Desk Concerts

 Any excuse!*

A favourite lately!

'Can’t Let Go' 

Robert and Alison

Tiny Desk concerts! NPR!

• any excuse to post another Tiny Desk AND Robert Plant and Alison Krauss’ hit song from the new album. I LOVE IT!💙 
• Rapidly becoming my song of the Week/Month/YEAR (delete as applicable! - I reckon year!)

CMT : Alison Krauss and Robert Plant ‘Can’t Let Go'

 Wow check these versions of the Lucinda Williams song out . . . the first is the best, Robert & Alison

From CMT Facebook -  Their album 'Raise the Roof' is Grammy-nominated, and they're hitting the #CMTcrossroads stage for the second time together 

Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Can't Let Go 

(Live from Sound Emporium Studios)

Written (of course) by the wondrous Lucinda Williams

Classic Indie Masters : ROBERT PLANT = BIG LOG

 

Robert Plant - Big Log (Official Video) [HD REMASTERED]

Official music video for Robert Plant, 'Big Log', from "The Principle of Moments" (1982)

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"DAZED & CONFUSED" JAKE HOLMES [the ORIGINAL] 1967 | PSYCHEDELIC JUNGLE

The YouTube poster of this ORIGINAL song notes

Dazed and Confused was written by the folk-rock singer Jake Holmes and released as a track in his debut album "The Above Ground Sound" Of Jake Holmes in 1967. That same year Jake Holmes opened for The Yardbirds in a show in New York where Jimmy Page heard the song. The song was rearranged and later became one of Led Zeppelin best-known songs, the debt to Jake Holmes however went largely unacknowledged by the band until 2012. 

The superb and always fascinating psychedelic jungle notes also

"The songs I like : Jake Holmes - Dazed and Confused (1967).

Page heard this song when Holmes was opening for the Yardbirds, and he covered it. Without crediting the original author. Page doesn’t like having to. Without Led Zeppelin, this song would have remained in the shadows, but still… a little mention of the author would have been honest. Page finally reached an out-of-court settlement with Holmes… in 2012! It is for this type of fact (among others, because it is not the most disturbing of the long list of stupid things committed during their great career) that, although I love their music (especially the first album in fact) I have not a lot of esteem for this group, humanly speaking.

Finally: the original version of Jake Holmes is excellent!!!” 

Jimmy what did you think would happen?

Robert? What did Jimmy tell you? He’d written a song whilst with the Yardbirds that you should cover?!

Prolly! I admire Robert immensely and his later career is an inspiration as much as the first two Led Zeppelin albums were groundbreaking and truly astonishing but as for Jimmy? Not so much . . . . . . 

Hell there’s even a magazine named after HOLMES' song!

It is called just desserts and you let the side down with this behaviour . . . . . . . . . 

 It is a cultural artefact

with an emphasis on the FACT! The singing and the descending bass accompaniment are straight lifts never mind the vocals and expression and delivery LET ALONE THE WORDS! written in 1967 and you sorted it out when? 45 years later . . . . . . . . . 

SHAME!

Robert Plant & Sandy Denny - Melody Maker Awards 1970

 

Led Zeppelin’s Robert Plant and Fairport Convention’s Sandy Denny outside Melody Maker’s Annual Poll Awards in London on September 15th, 1970. 

That night, Robert won Best Male Singer, while Sandy was chosen Best Female Singer. 

A year later the two duetted on the track ‘The Battle of Evermore’ for Led Zeppelin’s untitled fourth album, which ended up being the only time a guest vocalist appeared on a Led Zeppelin song.

Led Zeppelin - The Battle Of Evermore

Acoustic  Guitar: Jimmy Page

Mandolin: Jimmy Page

Producer: Jimmy Page

Remastering  Engineer: John Davis

Vocals: Robert Plant

Vocals: Sandy Denny

Writer: Jimmy Page

Writer: Robert Plant

Song of The Day TOO! - Killing The Blues by Robert Plant & Alison Krauss (Jools Holland 2008) - Rowland Salley, John Prine

Somebody posted this fine performance from the Jools Holland show on Facebook this morning and it reminded me when I first heard it I thought it was a tribute to John Prine as his was the first version I heard but it is written by the bass player from Chris Isaak's band Silvertone, Rowland Salley!  

Lovely to see this version and great to spot the legendary T Bone Burnett on guitar here too

the author's version

Rowland Salley

where I heard it first - Pink Cadillac album by John Prine

NB. John was nothing if not generous with his time and attention and apart from from his support for younger artists which was a constant, (Sturgill Simpson, Kurt Vile, Jason Isbell, Amanda Shires, Brandi Carlile,  Kacey Musgraves to name just a few) he covered songs by people we didn't necessarily know like Salley and Blaze Foley, Leon Payne and others besides.

ROBERT PLANT AND THE SENSATIONAL SHAPESHIFTERS - LIVE AT AUSTIN CITY LIMITS

ROBERT PLANT 

Weekend TV viewing highlight was revisiting the concert on Sky Arts of Robert's 2016/8 (?) incarnation of The Sensational Shapeshifters Live at Austin City Limits. And what an extraordinary man he is . . . . . . 

Plant's Sensational Space Shifters include Justin Adams (guitar), John Baggott (keyboards), Juldeh Camara (a two-stringed West African lute called the kologo and a one-string West African violin called the ritti), Billy Fuller (bass), Liam "Skin" Tyson (guitar) and Dave Smith (percussion).

 Baby, I'm Gonna Leave You

Live at Austin City Limits

Little Maggie at the David Lynch Festival 

Robert Plant and his fantastic band The Sensational Space Shifters

 Robert Plant - The Sensational Shapeshifters - Austin City Limits - PBS

Black Dog

BBC iPlayer- Robert Plant : By Myself

SONG OF THE DAY: THE EVERLY BROTHERS 'GONE, GONE, GONE'

• Track Name

  Gone Gone Gone

• Artist

  The Everly Brothers

The Everly Brothers - Gone Gone Gone (1964)

As the brilliantly eclectic site Guess I'm Dumb points out How did the Everlys react to the Beatles and the British invasion?  Here’s the answer: a great driving tune with their always incredible harmonies

No wonder Robert Plant and Alison Krauss chose to cover this one . . . . . . 

Page & Plant '98 - Viva Las Vegas - Hear Rock City

 Page & Plant 98!

Blimey its a busy weekend here in blogspot city . . . . . . . . had kinda given up on Led Zeppelin apart from Southampton rarity the best boot ever and then finding more of similar quality came as a shock but here's a beauty from 1998 when Jimmy and Robert 'reformed' to present new material and revisit Led Zeppelin classics and then some . . . . . this is heavy! Great quality and great fun! Where? From the master of heavy rock ROIO's and no equal (well nearly in that at least one of the boots of Led Zeppelin is featured by Voodoo Wagon!) Hear Rock City who specialises in Heavy Metal . . . . . you know you want it!

Page & Plant '98 - Viva Las Vegas - Hear Rock City

Blimey this ROCKS!

UPDATE:

In reply to Jobe from Voodoo Wagon who posted an enquiry about the Zeppelin ROIOs I mentioned above  there is this the following was previously the greatest (IMHO) legendary Long Lost Bootleg of Led Zeppelin that caused me to let go all previous ones was Southampton in '73

which I have no links to anymore (P.M. me if you want it!) and yet . . . . . . 

Then the boys at Floppy Boot Stomp and Voodoo Wagon as well as Hear Rock City have found boots that are at least as good I reckon and bearing in mind I have bee known to say the Southampton Great Lost Set was BETER than Mothership! the official live album . . . . . . .which may be stretching a point but I did believe it at the time . . . . 

So others worth checking out (at least!) and you should really have this lot

https://swappers-swappers.blogspot.com/2021/02/led-zeppelin-live-in-dallas-1969-hear.html

https://swappers-swappers.blogspot.com/2020/05/led-zeppelin-chasing-dragon-voodoo.html

https://swappers-swappers.blogspot.com/2020/03/led-zeppelin-osaka-1971-led-zeppelin.html

- Columbia, MD 2008

Robert Plant and Alison Krauss 

- Columbia, MD 2008

Back From The Dead... 
Originally posted June 6, 2016

Previously only available through Zippyshare (not available through normal browsers Google Chrome, Safari or Firefox to name but three) still Silent Way over at Voodoo Wagon brothers have shared it through the uniformly excellent Workupload. Enjoy! I am . . . . . . . 

Voodoo Wagon says:

Robert Plant & Allison Krauss 
Merriweather Post Pavillion
Columbia, MD - June 13, 2008
AKA - Your Long Journey 
Soundboard or FM Source @192

*Accompanying Notes*
The Led Zeppelin camp must have been upset when Plant & Krauss’ 2007 album made such an impact at this year’s Grammys. That “tour” looks further and further out of reach. Well doubters need not look any further than here. The pair’s shows are a varied mix of old-fashioned folk music and dramatically updated Led Zeppelin mysticism. When Plant & Krauss scream the “bring it back, bring it back” repeatedly on Battle Of Evermore, you’re left wondering whether it’s Zeppelin or P&K you want to “bring back”.  For Robert Plant this pairing has been an astute career move, a reinvention that has worked while staying true to his English folk roots. Krauss hasn’t done badly either. From the usual critic’s acclaim she’s accustomed to, now she’s also got the popularity and album sales. All done without compromising on music quality. In this day and age, that’s truly exceptional. Aside from a TV broadcast of Austin City Limits, Plant and Krauss’ shows have never circulated in soundboard quality. This show is a rare exception. As far as we know, no lossless copy has circulated on the net. We can only guess that an official live album and DVD is in the works.  Meanwhile, this is a tasty appetizer.  And a sincere get well soon greeting to guitarist Buddy Miller, who suffered a heart attack on Feb 19. Miller is currently recovering from a triple bypass heart surgery.

Disc 1
Track 101. Rich Woman
Track 102. Leave My Woman Alone
Track 103. Black Dog
Track 104. Sister Rosetta Goes Before Us
Track 105. Through The Morning, Through The Night
Track 106. It’s So Long and Goodbye To You 
Track 107. Fortune Teller
Track 108. In The Mood/Matty Goves 
Track 109. Black Country Woman 
Track 110. Bon Temps Rouler
Track 111. Shut It Tight
Track 112. Trampled Rose
Track 113. Green Pastures 
Track 114. Down To The River To Pray 

Disc 2
Track 201. Killing The Blues 
Track 202. Nothing
Track 203. Battle Of Evermore
Track 204. Please Read The Letter 
Track 205. Gone, Gone, Gone [Done Moved On]
Track 206. “I had a phone call from Richard Cole….” 
Track 207. You Don’t Knock
Track 208. I’m A One Woman Man 
Track 209. Your Long Journey

Lineup:
Robert Plant - vocals
Alison Krauss - vocals, fiddle
T Bone Burnett - vocals, guitar
Buddy Miller - guitar
Stuart Duncan - fiddle, mandolin, guitar, banjo

Robert Plant and Alison Krauss Columbia 2008 - Voodoo Wagon