The Village Voice, August 13th, 2002
MUSIC
Robert Plant Trip-Toes Through His Forbidden Past
KALEIDOSCOPE KINGDOM
ROBERT PLANT
Universal
Robert Plant's got the believe-I'm-fixin'-to-die, one-more-cup-of-"Hey-Joe," waiting-on-thelast-train-to-Elysium blues. He taps his foot on the station platform, the past spread across his face like a smile. In his mind, everything swirls together, antiquity and the half-cocked, half-remembered 20th century, tenacious legends and minor footnotes: a sonic realm where Big Boy Crudup sets sail with Odysseus, Robert Johnson race-mixes with folkadelic Youngbloods, and summer-of-love casualty Ski...
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