From 2002, and heading in the direction of the trio of great, rootsy records - solo and with various bands and collaborators - that Plant has put out over the last decade or so (Raising Sand, Band of Joy, lullaby ...) but without the sureness of touch that he'd subsequently develop in mingling his disparate musical interests (rock, blues, folk, world). It's all covers and most of them are carefully but indistinctly done, the exceptions being "Morning Dew" (a Grateful Dead number that finds a good groove over its course), "Song to the Siren" (done ethereally, as if there's any other way) and "Darkness, Darkness" (Jesse Colin Young).
