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Jimmy Page: Walking into Clarksdale

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Label: Mercury Records
Released: 1998
Time:
 60:50
Category: Pop/Rock
Producer(s): Jimmy Page, Robert Plant
Rating: ******.... (6/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.jimmypage.co.uk
Appears with: Led Zeppelin, Robert Plant, The Yardbirds
Purchase date: 2000.07.28
Price in €: 9,99



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[1] Shining in the Light (Jones/Lee/Page/Plant) - 4:00
[2] When the World Was Young (Jones/Lee/Page/Plant) - 6:13
[3] Upon a Golden Horse (Jones/Lee/Page/Plant) - 3:52
[4] Blue Train (Jones/Lee/Page/Plant) - 6:45
[5] Please Read the Letter (Jones/Lee/Page/Plant) - 4:21
[6] Most High (Jones/Lee/Page/Plant) - 5:36
[7] Heart in Your Hand (Jones/Lee/Page/Plant) - 3:50
[8] Walking into Clarksdale (Jones/Lee/Page/Plant) - 5:18
[9] Rurning Up (Jones/Lee/Page/Plant) - 5:21
[10] When I Was a Child (Jones/Lee/Page/Plant) - 5:45
[11] House of Love (Jones/Lee/Page/Plant) - 5:35
[12] Sons of Freedom (Jones/Lee/Page/Plant) - 4:07

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Jimmy Page - Guitar, Producer
Robert Plant - Vocals, Producer

Steve Albini - Engineer, Mixing, Recording Technician
Michael Lee - Drums
Lynton Naiff - String Arrangements
Ed Shearmur - Programming, String Pads
Paul Hicks - Assistant Engineer
Anton Corbijn - Photography
Timothy Whelan - Keyboards
Cally - Design
Charlie Jones - Bass

 C o m m e n t s ,   N o t e s

1998 CD Atlantic 83089
1998 LP Atlantic 83092
1998 CS Atlantic 83092
1998 CD Universal 5583242
1999 CD Mercury 5580252
1998 LP Mercury 5580251



For all of the acclaim it received, there's no denying that No Quarter was a tentative reunion for Page & Plant, containing only a handful of new songs which were scattered among many reworked old favorites. Since its supporting tour went well, the duo decided to make their reunion permanent, setting to work on an album of entirely new material. Taking the world music dabblings of No Quarter as a cue, Page & Plant tempered their eclecticism with a healthy dose of their monolithic guitar army, hiring Steve Albini, the indie-rock producer notorious for his harsh, brutal recordings, to helm the boards. In other words, it sounds perfect on paper — a groundbreaking veteran artist still taking chances and working with younger collaborators who would challenge them. If only Walking Into Clarksdale actually played that way. It's certainly possible to hear where the duo was intending to go, since the circular melodies, Mideastern drones, sawing strings, drum loops and sledgehammer riffs all add up to an effective update and progression of the classic Zeppelin sound. The problem is, the new sound doesn't go anywhere. There's potential in this metallic worldbeat rock, but only a few cuts, such as the stately "Most High" and the shimmering "Shining in the Light," realize it. Much of the album disappears under its own mass, since their are no well-written songs, catchy riffs or memorable melodies to support the sound. And that's what makes Walking Into Clarksdale so frustrating — you can hear the potential, and even enjoy the album on the musical surface, but there's nothing to make you return to the album once it's finished. And that ultimately means that the album simply reiterates the promise of the reunited Page & Plant instead of fulfilling it.

Stephen Thomas Erlewine - All Music Guide



Haben Sie Mitleid mit dem alternden Rockstar! All diese Erklärungen über das Jenseits und über die Hoffnung, zu sterben bevor man alt wird, lassen nicht viel Spielraum für Menschen mittleren Alters. Jimmy Page und Robert Plant waren sich dessen bewußt, als sie 1997 die Arbeit an Walking Into Clarksdale begannen. Es ist das erste gemeinsam erarbeitete Album dieses Duos mit ausschließlich neuem Material, seit Led Zeppelin sich 1980 auflöste. Trotz unvermeidbarer Vergleiche mit der Musik aus ihrer Jugendzeit ist dieses Werk (aufgenommen von dem Punkgott Steve Albini) keine Peinlichkeit. Zu viele Tracks sind zwar frustrierend blutarm und nüchtern, aber das Duo findet Anklänge an "Kashmir" in dem Epos "Most High" und Plant singt schmachtend einen wunderschönen Refrain à la Zeppelin in "When the World Was Young". Die Tanztage sind wieder da.

Steve Appleford - Amazon.de



Pity the aging rock star. All those declarations about sugar mountains and hoping to die before he got old don't leave much room for middle age. Jimmy Page and Robert Plant understood this in 1997 as they began work on Walking Into Clarksdale, the duo's first album-length collaboration on all-new material since Led Zeppelin blew apart in 1980. Despite inevitable comparisons with the music of their youth, their work here (recorded by punk deity Steve Albini) is no embarrassment. Too many of the tracks are frustratingly dry and somber, but the duo find shades of "Kashmir" on the epic "Most High," while Plant croons a beautifully Zeppelinesque chorus on "When the World Was Young." Dancing days are here again.

Steve Appleford - Amazon.com



Of course, the ghost of Led Zeppelin still lingers. Walking into Clarksdale resounds with rich echoes from the band's aesthetically ambitious midperiod--primarily Houses of the Holy (1973) and Physical Graffiti (1975).... [Producer] Steve Albini lends raw, contemporary force to this meticulous recreation of Led Zeppelin's classic sound.

Rolling Stone



But the question we are going to ask of Jimmy Page and Robert Plant regarding Walking into Clarksdale--their first all-new work together since Led Zeppelin broke up--is not what they have learned, but the more common and less compelling rock query: What have they lost? Well, they certainly haven't lost their insight into women because they never had any to begin with.... For an album so crammed with supposed love songs, Walking into Clarksdale is just an essay in autoeroticism.... What the duo has really lost is grandeur of sound. Even though the Page and Plant-produced album is "recorded and engineered by Steve Abini," you get the feeling the uber-alt-rock producer only took the job because it sounded funny. Except for an awkward, grunge surge in the middle of "When the World Was Young," you can't really hear any Albini influence.... Clarksdale's "new" songs bear a faint family resemblance to all those five-minute power ballads of yore. And "Sons of Freedom" proves Page still has a few lickety-licks up his sleeve. But time has not been kind to Plant's throat and he can't muster a fraction of his former intensity.#

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Blue Train

Another day is ending
And I remember when
My world, came falling down
Out there the stars stop dancing
Lost in my darkness now
The rain, keeps falling down

Light of my life, where have you gone
Love's true flame dies, without the warmth of your sun

Ah - ah - ah - ah - ah - ah

Here comes the blue train rollin'
Across my heart it crawls
The rain still pouring down
Another day escapes me
A little later maybe
Love will roll around

Light of my life, where have you gone
Love's true flame dies, without the warmth of your sun

I've been waiting on a corner
Yeah, I've been waiting for a sign
Ohhh, I've been waiting on the corner
I've been waiting for a sign now, oh now

Light of my life, where have you gone
Love's true flame dies, without the warmth of your sun

Whistle blowin', blue train rollin', carry my heart, my soul
Whistle blowin', blue train rollin', carry my darling son
Whistle blowin', blue train rollin', carry my heart

I've been waiting on a corner
I've been waiting for a sign now
Ohh, I've been waiting on the corner
I've been waiting for a sign, now, oh oh, ooh

Whistle blowin', blue train rollin'
Carry my heart now, oh yeah, ohhh

I've been waiting on a corner
I've been waiting for a sign

Hear the blue train, hear the blue train, ohh
It's the blue train rolling


Burning Up

My mind is cracked, I stand alone
And my way is dark as night
Back on the hill, the wind it moans
And big black clouds fly by

The rain fell down, it drowned my heart
It raged inside my soul
The pain that tore the skies apart
The twisted night unfolds

Oh, I'm burning up
Oh, I'm burning up
Ooh, I'm burning up
Oh oh oh

This lovely road that I must walk
All these tears that burn my eyes
In emptiness, my torment roars
In my silent loveless life

Oh oh,I'm burning up
Ah, I'm burning up
Ah, I'm burning up
Ohhh

Oh oh, can you hear me, hear me calling
Across a thousand years
Oh! Oh! Would you love me, if I die die
A thousand times

Like a volcano
Oh, I'm burning up

Like a volcano
I'm burning up

Like a volcano
Oh, I'm burning up

Like a volcano
Yeah, I'm burning up

Like a volcano

Like a volcano
oh oh oh, no yeah

Like a volcano
no yeah no yeah

Like a volcano

Like a volcano
Burn burn burn burn burn

Like a volcano
burn burn burn, ohhh


Heart In Your Hand

Do you gather flowers for me
Moving softly through the trees
With the scent against your arms
Long ago I knew your charms

As I walk through the purple hills of
Soon forgotten
Know that my heart was in your hand
And my heart was in your hand

Do your lips still call my name
Would your mouth still taste the same
There I learned the sweetest words
Oh! What price of mercy

Yeah, though I steal all across the years
The memory lingers on
With my heart in your hand
Oh, my heart in your hand

Should I fall beside the road
Everlasting wandering soul
And the memory sublime
And my heart was there

Yeah, as I walk through the purple hills of
Long ago
I know my heart was in your hand
Oh, my heart was in your hand
my heart is in your hand
Oh, my heart


House Of Love

Oh, speak to me, tell me the truth
Why don't you let me know
Oh, throw me the key, I'm locking it up
I think it's time to go

Oh when I think about it now
We built a house of love somehow

Oh, talk to me, you're packing your clothes
You leave me walking the floor
Oh, feels strange to me, I'm losing control
I can't feel you anymore, ooh ooh

Oh when I think about it now
We built a house of love somehow

It hurts a little too much
It hurts a little too much

Oh my crazy arms, so empty now
So cold like dying snow
Mmm, remember me, I can't forget
You touched my very soul

Oh when I think about it now
We built a house of love somehow

A little too much
It hurts a little too much
It hurts a little too much
It hurts a little too much, ah-ah-ah

You know you hurt me girl
You know you really really do now
You know you hurt me child
You know you really really do now
But things get better baby

When I was born I was running
Yeah, just-a running so hard now
But things get much better baby
But things get so hard, so hard, so hard

Ah, keep a-running, keep a-running
Things get better baby
Oh my crazy arms, so empty now
So cold like dying snow
Oh, remember me, I can't forget
You touched my very soul

Oh when I think about it now
We built a house of love somehow

Just a little too much
Oh a little too much
Just a little too much
It's just a little too much

Oh, come on, keep on, keep on
Come on come on come on


Most High

Who guards the truth
Oh lord most high
A frightened dove in a starless sky, oh-oh, oh oh oh
So high, most high, so high

Who hides the east from the blind man's eye
In the land of peace
Where the righteous cry, oh-oh, oh oh oh
So high, most high, so high

Where are the words? I'm the king
Who moves the stars and then the sun
To the light where my spirit was born
Bring this wanderer home

While mercy sleeps in the hearts of liars
And the olive tree is consumed by fire, oh-oh, oh oh oh
So high, most high, so high

Where are the words? I'm the king
Who moves the stars and then the sun
To the light where my spirit was born
Bring this wanderer home, come on, come on, come on

When David's seed talks
Through his paper crown
And he spits hot steel
See all the kids fall down
Ohhh yeah, mmm
So high, most high, so high, Oh oh yeah

Oh oh

Come on, come on, come on
Come on, come on, come on
Come on, come on, come on
Come on, come on, come on

Better hurry, hurry
Better hurry, hurry
Better hurry, hurry

Most high, most high high high
Most high, so high, so high
So high


Please Read The Letter

Caught out running
With just a little too much to hide
Maybe baby
Everything's gonna work out fine
Please read the letter
I pinned it to your door
It's crazy how it all turned out
We needed so much more

Too late, too late
A fool could read the signs
Maybe baby
You'd better check between the lines
Please read the letter, I wrote it in my sleep
With help and consultation from
The angels of the deep

Once I stood beside a well of many words
My house was full of rings and
Charms and pretty birds
Please understand me, my walls come falling down
There's nothing here that's left for you
But check with lost and found

Please read the letter that I wrote
Please read the letter that I wrote

One more song just before we go
Remember baby
All the things
We used to know
Please read my letter
And promise you'll keep
The secrets and the memories and
Cherish in the deep

Ah -

Please read the letter that I wrote
Please read the letter that I wrote
Please read the letter that I wrote

Please read the letter that I wrote
Please read the letter that I wrote
Please read the letter that I wrote


Shining In The Light

Big boat stealing through the darkness
Will you bring me to my love?
Will you bring me to my only love?
In the night the light of oneness
And the one light guides you home
And the keeper turns his cards alone

From this shore my memory wanders
And I dance upon the sea
Can I dance with you upon the sea
Oh, I love your brown-eyed madness
And your beauty was exposed
Now your memory's clinging to my clothes

Oooooh oooooh

Shining in my light
Shining in the light

Shining in my light
Shining in the light

Shining in my light
Shining in the light

Oooou oooou

Shining in my light
Shining in the light

Shining in my light
Shining in the light

Ho ho
Hooohooo
Ohh hoohh

Shining in my light
Shining in the light

Oh hoh

Shine, oh oh oh oh

Oh oh hoh
Oh oh hoh ho


Sons Of Freedom

Go fetch another white girl
To play with in the sand
The one I have right now is broke
The one I really want has planned
To get religion, to find another way
She's at the temple, all I have to say

I have to face it, I'm home alone
I feel quite naked, oh, so forlorn
I am united in disarray
I've no intentions, I know to pray

Send me a dreamboat
That I can sail away
Adrift in warm devotion, no memory
I feel no pain
To live for new beginnings
To ride the win to win the day
Out on the ocean, decide I've got to stay

I can't get started, I'm at an end
She's got religion, I've lost a friend
I talk in circles, I make no sense
I get so nervous, no recompense

I have to face it, I'm home alone
I feel quite naked, oh, so forlorn
I am united in disarray
I've no intentions, I know to pray

Bring me the brightest star
That I can wish upon
And close my eyes so very tight
Pretend that you're not gone
So deep is my distraction
Maybe I'll disappear

I can't get started, I'm at an end
She's got religion, I've lost a friend
I talk in circles, I make no sense
I get so nervous, no recompense

I have to face it, I'm home alone
I feel quite naked, oh, so forlorn
I am united in disarray
I've no intentions, I know to pray

I can't get started, I'm at an end
She's got religion, I've lost a friend
I talk in circles, I make no sense
I get so nervous, no recompense

Go fetch another nice girl
Another nice girl
Another nice girl
Another nice girl
Another nice girl
Another nice girl
Another nice girl
Another nice girl


Upon A Golden Horse

First there was a fire that burned
After came the sea
Crawling through the rain and storm
For you, for me
Slowly walks the sacred fool
Countenance sublime
Shining in the light of love
Shining, shining

Oh, shine for me now
Oh, shine for me now

High upon a golden horse
Out upon the sea
Moves a man with simple words
Some for you now, some for me

Burn for me, burn for me ah
Oh, burn for me now
Oh, burn for me, burn for me ah
Oh oh hoh hoh hoh

Out there where the wild wind blows
Oh, where the soul is free
You will be my brightest star
Shining, shining

Oh! Shine for me now
Oh! Shine for me now, oh

Ooh burn for me burn for me
Yeah oh burn for me, burn for me
Oh ohhhh
Shine for me now
Oh oh oh ohh
Shine for me now
Hey hey hey


Walking Into Clarksdale

When I was born I was running
As my feet hit the ground
Before I could walk I was humming
An old railroad sound
Things didn't get much better
When by the age of five
They found me walking into Clarksdale
Trying to keep my friends alive

No time for celebration
There was no known cure
Seems I was born and raised
In the wrong killing floor
And my loved ones gathered round see
If the experiment had worked
I was misplaced, out of time
Priveleged and worse

Oh, mama please
Don't cry for me
Tears to the river
Tears to be free

Now I see twelve white horses
Walking in a line
Moving east across the metal
Bridge on highway 49
And standing in the shadows
Of a burnt out motel
The king of Commerce Mississippi waited
With his hound from hell, oh

A shiny noon riverboat taking
Income from the poor
It's floating by the levee in
an artificial pool
There's a six mile tailback
Back on junction 304
A stranger at the crossroads
Believe I've seen his face before

Oh,
Don't cry for me
Tears fill the river
Tears to be free

Oh, I'm sad to be leaving
The sun is going down and I really got to go now
I'm sad to be leaving
The sun's going down and I really got to go now
Really got to go now
I gotta go
I've got to move
I've got to move, yeah, ah

I'm sad to be leaving
Sun's going down and I really got to go now
I'm sad to be leaving
The sun's going down and I really got to go now, oh hoo hoo hoo

I'm sad to be leaving
Sun's going down and I really got to go now
I'm sad to be leaving
The sun's going down and I really got to go now

Really got to go now, yeah
Oh, gotta go now, yes
Yes, gotta go now
Yeah


When I Was A Child

I was reaching for the future
Slowly floating in the blue
When I was a boy
I dreamed a dream of you

I danced upon the tree top
I drifted with the stream
When I was a child
I held you in my dreams

Oh-oh-oh oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh ohhh
Oooooooh

Once I was a soldier
In my castle strong
Oh I stood so tall then
I could do no wrong
Innocence and slumber
When I was a boy

I was walking with a stranger
He left without a trace
When I was a boy
I slept at Heaven's gate

Once I was a soldier
In my castle strong
Oh I stood so tall then
I could do no wrong
Innocence and slumber
When I was a boy

Once I was a soldier
In my castle strong
Oh I stood so tall then
I could do no wrong
Innocence and slumber
Oh, when I was, when I was, when I was
When I was, when I was, when I was, oh oh oh oh, ooh yeah

Once I was a soldier
In my castle strong
Oh I stood so tall then
I could do no wrong
Innocence and slumber
When I was a boy

Yes, you know and so I wonder
through it grows and grows
when i was a boy
I was a boy
I was a boy


When The World Was Young

Oh, yeah, here I am
I've been here since all time began
Oh, oh, I'm here and then
Go round and round and back again

Ah - ah - ah
Ah - ah - ah

Hey hey, come look and see
My footsteps through eternity
Riding hard, strong and free
The messenger will hold the key, ohh-hoh-hoh

Ah - ah - ah
Ah - ah - ah

I saw you
I knew you, I touched you
When the world was young
I saw, and I knew and I touched
When the world was young
When the world was young, oh ohhh

Ah - ah

High on a hill, home of my heart
Take me dancing round, oh, and round
Carry me still sweet home of my heart
Take me dancing round, oh, round

I saw you, and I knew you, and I touched you
When the world was young
I saw you, and I knew you, and I touched you
When the world was young

Oh oh oh oh oh oh ohhh

Round, round, round, round

I saw you, and I touched you, and I knew you
When the world was young
I saw you, and I touched you, and I knew you
When the world was young

Carry me still home of your heart
Keep me dancing round oh, and round

Oh oh
Oh
When the world was young

Oh oh oh
Oh hoh
When the world was young

Oh
Ohohohhohhoh
 

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