geoMp3 of The Week: Robert Plant & Alison Krauss Reimagine “Black Dog”
This week it’s the best version of Zeppelin’s “Black Dog” you’ll ever hear. Robert Plant and Alison Krauss are touring in support of their great, great Raising Sand release, and they’re reworking a number of Zeppelin songs. This one is particularly well done, and not only because it sounds remarkably similar to everything Tom Waits has performed live in the last ten years. The rhythm isn’t as engaging without Bonham doing clever things with inverted backbeats and whatnot, but the arrangement is still really good and the song has never had so much mood.
“Black Dog” from a performance at Wembley on May 22, 2008. I’m placing it in Pangbourne, England. John Paul Jones wrote this monster riding a train away from Pangbourne and it’s interesting to me to think of him imagining this performance of the lurching rocker he was basing on Howlin’ Wolf material.
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