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It must be so cool to be Robert Plant. You've got forever-legend status, and you can just continue to do whatever you want. If you want to spend more than a decade exploring ancestral folk music, sure, go ahead. If you want to bust out the occasional Led Zeppelin classic, that's even better. People will be incredibly psyched to see you, and you know that you'll have the pipes and the gravitas to sing about Gollum stealing your girl without sounding the slightest bit silly.
Last year, Robert Plant released Saving Grace, an album that he recorded with his eponymous band Saving Grace and with singer Suzi Dian. There was a Low cover. It was cool. On Wednesday, Plant and his collaborators were the musical guests on Stephen Colbert's Late Show. On the broadcast, they played "Higher Rock," a Saving Grace track written by the Montana musician Martha Scanlan. That was cool, too. As an online bonus, Plant busted out a folky rendition of "Ramble On," the 1969 Led Zeppelin classic where his narrator meets a girl so fair in the darkest depths of Mordor. That was really cool. Watch the two performances below.
Robert Plant is a big proponent of record stores — not exactly a surprise, considering that he's the kind of 77-year-old legend who drops a Low cover as his album's lead single. This year, he's been named a Record Store Day Legend as part of the big day's promotional blitz. And in his capacity as a Record Store Day Legend, Plant and a camera crew recently visited the world's oldest record store — Spillers Records in Cardiff, first established in 1894. Here he is, talking about all the time he spent in that place and generally being charming.
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