From ’85 and the now wizard looking, Robert Plant, with 4 tracker desperately showcasing his versatility as a vocalist. Opening and closing with 2 studio tracks, drenched in synths (as was his preferred sound in the mid 80’s). The ex-Led Zeppelin frontman is here trying to find some relevance
Working with producer Tim Palmer and Benji Lefevre it produced a highly polished sound. “Little By Little” was a quite a big international hit.
“Sixes and Sevens” was also from the “Shaken ‘n’ Stirred” with guest musicians ; Guitar, Guitar synth – Robbie Blunt, Keyboards – Jezz Woodroffe, Bass, Guitar – Paul Martinez. Drums – Ritchie Hayward. Interestingly Toni Halliday adds some backing vocals.
The 2 live tracks (from Dallas on 24th June 1985) features a Honeydrippers boogie woogie, big band track as well as another LP cut.
Es Paranza Records – 7 90485-1-B
A1 | Little By Little (Remix Long Version) | 5:10 | |
A2 | Easily Lead | 7:52 | |
B1 | Robert Plant And The Honeydrippers | Rockin’ At Midnight (Live With The Honeydrippers) | 4:17 |
B2 | Sixes And Sevens | 6:04 |
Plant made a lot of great moves Post-Led Zep. This was certainly one of them. Never a huge LZ fan [to put it mildly], but there’s some of their canon I can make time for. Let’s put it this way. My wife has the LZ albums…I have the Plant solo records.
I can proudly say |I have no Led Zeppelin records in my collection.