DREAMLAND

A decade after Plant's last true solo album "Fate of Nations" comes "Dreamland", a collection of cover songs given the magic touch by Plant, all provocative and thoughtfully covered, particularly on the standout track "Hey Joe" which he had covered many years before with The Band of Joy but here in a darker, more sinister style. This darkness sums up the mood of the whole album, and remains Plant's moodiest set of songs, though he covers songs which have inspired him over the years and takes them further in his own style.

With a new band in tow named "Strange Sensation" Plant embarks on this new project, including songs by Bukka White "Funny in my Mind (I Believe I'm Fixin' to Die)", Bob Dylan "One More Cup of Coffee", Tim Buckley "Song to the Siren", Jesse Colin Young "Darkness Darkness" , Billy Roberts "Hey Joe", Tim Rose "Morning Dew", Skip Spence "Skip's Song"and others.

The album was released on 16th July 2002 on Mercury, the CD is widely available but very few vinyl copies were produced making it one of the rarest Robert Plant albums out there. Plant may have set out here to again encapsulate a mystic musical experience attempted with the Page and Plant albums, by mixing together folk, world music, blues and rock as achieved on the early Zeppelin albums ? always experimenting, always progressing , though achieving his most mysterious vision to date, and you would hardly guess they were covers at all?

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