ROBERT PLANT - “I Was Born Again And Saved And Reincarnated By American Music”
January 11, 2015, 9 years ago
Legendary Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant sat down with Nancy Dunham from USA Today recently and chatted about a number of topics. A few excerpts from the chat follow:
On early influences: "My preoccupation as a very young early teenager was a music form that I might have missed. ... If I had missed it, I would never have sung," he says. "If I hadn't heard the Howlin' Wolf, Robert Johnson, Little Richard music, I wouldn't have been drawn to music. Most of the music we (in England) were surrounded by was slush, without any commitment. ... I was born again and saved and reincarnated by American music."
On his new album Lullaby and... the Ceaseless Roar: “It is appropriate for my time in life. If it were world music, we would be the least-successful world musicians because we desecrate. I like to think it is different — something completely without … a name people would call it."
On the future: "I hear the sound of time roaring past me. And there is no time to lose."
Read more at USA Today.
