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Artist | Robert Plant
Title | Carry Fire
Genre | Rock Format | Album
Source | CDDA Time | 49:02
Label | Nonesuch Records Store | 2017
Catalog | 7559-79349-3 Rip | 2017
Bitrate | 244 kbps Size | 89.87 MB
Freq | 44.1 kHz Encoder | Lame 3.98.4
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01. The May Queen 4:14
02. New World... 3:29
03. Season's Song 4:19
04. Dance With You Tonight 4:48
05. Carving Up The World Again... A Wall And Not A Fence 3:55
06. A Way With Words 5:18
07. Carry Fire 5:25
08. Bones Of Saints 3:46
09. Keep It Hid 4:07
10. Bluebirds Over The Mountain 4:59
11. Heaven Sent 4:42
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In 1968, a na∩ve young singer from the Black Country hills in England named
Robert Plant was discovered wailing the blues by veteran session guitarist
Jimmy Page and bassist/keyboardist John Paul Jones. When Plant recommended
his friend John Bonham as the drummer, one of the most successful bands in
rock history was born: Led Zeppelin. But the group that started with such
force also ended in flames after 12 years, as Bonham's death from alcohol
poisoning in 1980 split the band after nine albums. The remaining members
went their separate ways, but Bonham's death hit Plant particularly hard.
Plant opens "Carry Fire" with "The May Queen", a song that can't help but
stir up memories of "Stairway To Heaven", the most mystical number Led
Zeppelin ever cut. "The May Queen" doesn't sound a thing like "Stairway To
Heaven", which is deliberate. As Plant murmurs about 'the dimming of his
light', the churning folk-rock - a rootless, restless gypsy hybrid of
American, English, and Middle East traditions - comes to crest upon a
violin line that appears to quote "Prodigal Son", a gospel blues attributed
to Robert Wilkins. It's hard not to read this as a sly wink to the
audience, a suggestion that Plant, after years of rambling, has returned to
where he belongs.
Such suspicions are underscored by the fact that "Carry Fire" is Plant's
first album in over a decade where he's retained the same supporting crew,
recording once again with the Sensational Space Shifters, the same outfit
who backed him on "Lullaby And The Ceaseless Roar". Where that 2014 record
carried a cataclysmic undercurrent - his return to England bore the full
weight of mortality - Carry Fire is so casual it can even get loud. Guitars
ricochet throughout "New World", a slice of hard mysticism that evokes the
spacier elements of Zeppelin even as it consciously chooses the spiritual
over the carnal.
Despite Plant's clear favor of the heart and head over primal pleasures,
"Carry Fire" retains a visceral kick, because the singer/songwriter
understands the transportive power of music, how the old can seem new when
seen with a different light. Take "Bluebirds Over The Mountain", an obscure
45 from the obscure rockabilly singer Ersel Hickey: It was written and
recorded in 1958 and cut a decade later by the Beach Boys, but here it
sounds as eternal as a mountain spring, a song that was never composed, but
rather always existed. Plant surrounds "Bluebirds Over The Mountain" with
songs that are equally ageless: Their bones feel old yet the sound is
fresh, even if the record makes no concessions to modernity.
"Carry Fire" also doesn't concede to how Plant once wielded tradition as a
bludgeon, since every moment of the album is underplayed. Subtlety, once a
word never associated with Plant, is now his greatest strength, and "Carry
Fire" carries a real, substantial difference from "Lullaby", which gained
power from its moodiness. Here, Plant doesn't seem quite so melancholy. The
very richness of the music bears the weight of a long, unpredictable life,
but the album's tenor - not to mention the songs themselves - suggests a
boundless possibility, and that's why "Carry Fire" is an album of hope:
Plant wears his years proudly, yet he's not concerned with any moment other
than the present.
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