Robert Plant took time out on his recent Digging Deep podcast to look back on his and Jimmy Page‘s only full studio album apart from Led Zeppelin — 1998’s Walking Into Clarksdale. The album, which came on the heels of 1994’s massively successful No Quarter: Jimmy Page And Robert Plant – Unledded album and MTV special, also followed the duo touring a Zeppelin-heavy show across the globe.
- Robert Plant & Alison Krauss North American tour dates (subject to change):
June 1 – Canandaigua, NY – CMAC
June 3 – Saratoga Springs, NY – Saratoga Performing Arts Center
June 4 – Forest Hills, NY – Forest Hills Stadium
June 6 – Clarkston, MI – DTE Energy Music Theatre
June 7 – Chicago, IL – Jay Pritzker Pavilion
June 9 – Indianapolis, IN – TCU Amphitheater at White River State Park
June 11 – Columbia, MD – Merriweather Post Pavilion
June 12 – Philadelphia, PA – TD Pavilion at The Mann
June 14 – Cary, NC – Koka Booth Amphitheatre
June 16 – Atlanta, GA – Cadence Bank Amphitheatre at Chastain Park
June 17 – Manchester, TN – Bonnaroo
August 15 – San Diego, CA – The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park
August 17 – Santa Barbara, CA – Santa Barbara Bowl
August 18 – Los Angeles, CA – The Greek Theatre
August 20 – Stateline, NV – Lake Tahoe Outdoor Arena at Harveys
August 21 – Berkeley, CA – Greek Theatre at UC Berkeley
August 23 – Napa, CA – Oxbow RiverStage
August 25 – Bend, OR – Hayden Homes Amphitheater
August 27 – Troutdale, OR – Edgefield Amphitheater
August 28 – Redmond, WA – Marymoor Park
August 30 – Salt Lake City, UT – Sandy Amp
September 1 – Morrison, CO – Red Rocks Amphitheatre
September 3 – Grand Prairie, TX – Texas Trust CU Theatre at Grand Prairie
September 4 – Austin, TX – Moody Amphitheater
FAST FACTS
- Jimmy Page & Robert Plant‘s Walking Into Clarksdale was released on April 21st, 1998 and peaked at Number Eight on the Billboard 200 albums chart. The set got as high as Number Three in Britain.
- In the States, the album’s lead single, “Most High,” topped the charts on the Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and snagged the 1999 Grammy for Best Hard Rock Performance.
- In 2007 Robert Plant and Alison Krauss covered “Please Read the Letter” on their Grammy-winning album Raising Sand.
CHECK IT OUT: Digging Deep, The Robert Plant Podcast – Series 5 Episode 4 – Please Read The Letter:
CHECK IT OUT: Page & Plant’s 1998 track “Please Read The Letter”: