Jimmy wrote:
<There are some lovely songs, but I
can't
believe she attempts "Stairway to Heaven"!!!.>
Haven't heard it yet myself - can't imagine, to tell you the truth! But
below is what Robert Plant says about it.
Penny
NEWS - Robert Plant Praises Dolly Parton's Cover Of 'Stairway To Heaven'
07/14/2002
(7/14/02, 10 a.m. ET) -- Among the stranger cover versions released this
year is Dolly Parton's rendition of Led Zeppelin's "Stairway To Heaven,"
from her latest album Halos & Horns. Parton's version of the song, which
includes some new lyrics that she wrote for it, was OK'd by Zeppelin
principals Robert Plant and Jimmy Page.
Plant tells LAUNCH that he's genuinely pleased with the way she treated
the song. "You know, the thing is that she's not wailing--she's keeping it
within the genre, and she's a good singer. Maybe she didn't get the last
bit properly, and maybe that's sort of how the idioms have changed so
much, that maybe it doesn't matter--maybe that's the way to do it. That's
why we did with 'You Shook Me' or 'Whole Lotta Love,' or whatever it was.
It's just trying to move it 'round a couple, 15 degrees around from
magnetic north."
However, Plant adds that he understands how some fans can find the notion
of Parton doing any Led Zeppelin song, much less "Stairway," to be a bit
odd. "For it to be covered here, there, and everywhere, it doesn't really
matter," he said. "I mean, it's just another time now, so it's a bit like
Kylie Minogue doing 'Smokestack Lightning.' You know, it's just so kinda
odd that the artist and the elements are not in tune."
Plant releases Dreamland, his first solo album in nine years, on Tuesday
(July 16). He accompanies it with a tour that starts Saturday (July 20) at
Rock Fest in Cadott, Wisconsin, before hooking up with the Who on July 26
at the Tweeter Center in Mansfield, Massachusetts, for a month of opening
dates.
-- Gary Graff, Detroit
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