Tuesday, May 31, 2005

Album: Dreamland

Rhapsody Link: "1. Hey Joe - Robert Plant
2. One More Cup Of Coffee - Robert Plant"

I am not sure how many classic rock fan has followed Robert Plant's career from the Led Zeppelin era to his solo days. I'm certainly not one of them. In fact, I just "discovered" this all-cover album after I read a review of his latest one, "Mighty Rearranger."

Although Plant's "One More Cup of Coffee" retained a lot of the arrangement from Bob Dylan's version, it sounded as if it could have been Plant's own song. That's surprising. On the other hand, this version of "Hey Joe" is definitely very different from Hendrix's. What is interesting is that Jimi's most well-known cover is probably Bob Dylan's "All Along the Watchtower" These three songs form a full circle, cover-to-covered!

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