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| Walking Into Clarksdale | 
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (based on 96 reviews)
Sales Rank: 484575
Category: Music
Artist: Jimmy Page & Robert Plant
Publisher: Atlantic / Wea
Studio: Atlantic / Wea
Manufacturer: Atlantic / Wea
Label: Atlantic / Wea
Media: LP Record
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 12.6 x 12.6 x 0.2
UPC: 075678309212
EAN: 0075678309212
ASIN: B0000062RZ
Publication Date: 1998
Release Date: June 2, 1998
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| Tracks:
| • | Shining in the Light | | • | When the World Was Young | | • | Upon a Golden Horse | | • | Blue Train | | • | Please Read the Letter | | • | Most High | | • | Heart in Your Hand | | • | Walking into Clarksdale | | • | Burning Up | | • | When I Was a Child | | • | House of Love | | • | Sons of Freedom |
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Album Description
Japanese edition of the 1998 & second collaborative outingby the former Led Zeppelin bandmates with 'Whiskey From TheGlass' added as an unmarked bonus track. 13 tracks total,also featuring the single 'Most High'. Steve Albini (Pixies,Nirvana, Cheap Trick,
Amazon.com
Pity the aging rock star. All those declarations about sugar mountains and hoping to die before he got old don't leave much room for middle age. Jimmy Page and Robert Plant understood this in 1997 as they began work on Walking Into Clarksdale, the duo's first album-length collaboration on all-new material since Led Zeppelin blew apart in 1980. Despite inevitable comparisons with the music of their youth, their work here (recorded by punk deity Steve Albini) is no embarrassment. Too many of the tracks are frustratingly dry and somber, but the duo find shades of "Kashmir" on the epic "Most High," while Plant croons a beautifully Zeppelinesque chorus on "When the World Was Young." Dancing days are here again. --Steve Appleford
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 Worth having August 18, 2008
If you love Led Zeppelin, this album is worth having - mostly for the song "Most High" which is musically very similar to a lot of the stuff on "No Quarter," which is a much better album. The rest of the tracks are listenable, but you won't be screaming for them at a reunion concert.
 Please Remaster this!!!! April 29, 2008
"Walking into Clarksdale" has several great songs on it..."Most high"...."Heart in your Hand"....."Blue Train".....But the Sound is horrific! Where were Jimmys ears during this creation? Steve Albini should be hung by his balls.....There is so much bottom, you can`t here the drums or the bass....they come across as if you are listening to it under water!!! Take Page/plants.."No Quarter/Unledded"....Crank it up, listen....And then, without changing the volume or bass/treble...put on this cd....blagh! This needs to be Remastered right away!
Surprisingly good March 20, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I was pretty fearful about first hearing this album, since I really hated most post-Zeppelin releases, but was excited to hear this as it was engineered by Steve Albini, a recordist who I had always wished was around to help make a Led Zep reunion album.
Albini is very adept at recreating a Zeppelin-like sound for the album, and it's no wonder he was chosen as engineer, despite his dark horse status -- the drums and guitars sound terrific, and there are many details of Robert Plant's voice that were not captured on his earlier solo efforts. Jimmy Page shows off a great arsenal of different guitar sounds, and while he plays no really blistering solos, the work bears his unmistakable signature, expertly recorded to boot. The mixes have almost 3-D depth, and when turned up loud they will kick you right in the guts.
The songs here must be applauded simply for not trying to make it sound like they are young again. These are middle-aged men, with a stock of tunes that tend to favor ballads (with loud bridges, of course); the lyrics often seem to reflect on loss and aging, rather than describing elves, fairies, and cavorting with Los Angeles groupies. They sound older, but all the wiser. On "Blue Train", there is obvious and very affecting sincerity in such lines as "love's true flame dies without the warmth of your sun," -- something that would sound ridiculous coming from a younger band, but here Plant gives it an earnest quality that makes it totally believable.
It's not a perfect record. The single, "Most High", loses me after a few minutes, and the title track lacks focus even though it's based on a pretty good guitar riff. But "Shining In the Light" sounds very new and refreshing, as well "When the World Was Young," which could have sounded quite at-home on an album like "Presence".
This album won't change your life, but more or less, it rocks. Sometimes, conviction is all you need, and there's plenty of it here.
 very underrated December 22, 2007
This is the last Led Zeppelin album. The songs grow on you with time and are all really great. Almost a decade after I bought this album I still love listening to it. i wish I could have heard these songs live. Zeppelin should get back together because life is too short and rock n' roll needs them as well as other classic rock bands. I hear rumors of a new album somewhere down the road, and if that's going to happen I hope they'd really do it right and make some bold social statements and offend a lot of people. These days, a lot of people need to be awakened from their spiritual slumbers.
 THIS ALBUM SUCKS!!! November 30, 2007
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Come on people! I was excited too when they put it out. Prolly bought it on release day, and gazed at the cover until I got it home... but lets not lie to ourselves. This disc didn't even make a good coaster. I sware there was a stain on my coffee table!!!
So many GREAT rock and roll discs, out of print, and poor kids in indonesia are still forced into pressing this peice of crap? I PUKE!
Even Amazon is too embarassed to put up song samples. Stay away.
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