Robert Plant is the latest guest on “Tiny Desk Concert”a series of intimate performances produced by NPR, the North American public radio.
Presenting five songs that mix his repertoire – including Led Zeppelin – and versions, the 77-year-old English artist was accompanied by Suzi Dian (vocals and accordion), Matt Worley (guitar, banjo), Tony Kelsey (guitar), Barney Morse-Brown (cello) and Oli Jefferson (drums), a large band accommodated in NPR’s small space in Washington.
‘Gallows Pole’, a song originally released on the album “Led Zeppelin III” (1970), was one of the highlights of the almost half-hour performance. Plant returned to ‘Everybody’s Song’, by the North American band Low, one of his favorite bands, also doing a version of ‘It’s a Beautiful Day’, by the Californians Moby Grape, central to the psychedelic scene in San Francisco in the late 60s.
Referring to the acoustics of the space, he recalled an unloved Led Zeppelin reunion on stage, 40 years ago, and joked: “This is just like Live Aid. I couldn’t hear myself there either.”