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Walking into Clarksdale

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Length
  
60:43

Release date
  
21 April 1998

Genres
  
Hard rock, Heavy metal

Artist
  
Page and Plant

Label
  
Atlantic Records

Producers
  
Jimmy Page, Robert Plant

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Released
  
21 April 1998 (1998-04-21)

Studio
  
Abbey Road Studios, London, England

Hard rock albums
  
No Quarter: Jimmy Page and, Manic Nirvana, Now and Zen, Pictures at Eleven, Mighty ReArranger

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Walking into Clarksdale is a studio album by Jimmy Page and Robert Plant, both formerly of English rock band Led Zeppelin. It was released by Atlantic Records on 21 April 1998. Walking into Clarksdale took 35 days to record. The album was recorded and mixed by Steve Albini. The single "Most High" was awarded a Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance in 1999.

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Clarksdale is a town in the Mississippi Delta, a historical home of Delta blues music.

The album debuted on the Billboard's Billboard 200 album chart at No. 8, while reaching No. 3 on the UK Album Chart. The single "Most High" reached No. 1 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.

Plant re-recorded the song "Please Read the Letter" with Alison Krauss for their 2007 collaboration album Raising Sand. This re-recording won the Record of the Year award at the 2009 Grammy Awards.

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Track listing

All songs by Page/Plant/Jones/Lee.

  1. "Shining in the Light" – 4:01
  2. "When the World Was Young" – 6:13
  3. "Upon a Golden Horse" – 3:52
  4. "Blue Train" – 6:45
  5. "Please Read the Letter" – 4:21
  6. "Most High" – 5:36
  7. "Heart in Your Hand" – 3:50
  8. "Walking into Clarksdale" – 5:18
  9. "Burning Up" – 5:21
  10. "When I Was a Child" – 5:45
  11. "House of Love" – 5:35
  12. "Sons of Freedom" – 4:08

Japanese bonus track

  1. "Whiskey from the Glass" – 3:01

Note

  • "Most High" and "Shining in the Light" were released as singles, with a music video for the former. "Most High" was also featured as a CD single with the b-sides "Upon a Golden Horse" and "The Window".

    • Personnel

    Page and Plant

  • Jimmy Page – acoustic and electric guitars, mandolin, co-production
  • Robert Plant – vocals, co-production
  • Charlie Jones – bass guitar, percussion
  • Michael Lee – drums, percussion

    • Additional personnel

  • Steve Albini – engineering, recording technician
  • Anton Corbijn – photography
  • Cally – design
  • Paul Hicks – assistant engineering
  • Lynton Naiff – string arrangements on "Upon a Golden Horse"
  • Ed Shearmur – programming and string pads on "Most High"
  • Tim Whelan – keyboards on "Most High"

    • Songs

    1Shining in the Light4:01
    2When the World Was Young6:13
    3Upon a Golden Horse3:52

    References

    Walking into Clarksdale Wikipedia
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