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Title: Where a brilliant direction went astray
Review: Robert Plant's first 3 post-Zep solo releases were brilliant pieces that showed he could accept his legendary status, put it behind him, and move on. The albums were very mature, and it seemed as if he were telling people to quit thinking about LZ and "listen to THIS". This fourth CD, unfortunately, initiates his slide back into his own legend, even using samples of LZ tunes on some tracks and using Jimmy Page on another... just a warm-up for the commercialized releases and reunions that were to follow. The only tracks I can recommend are "The Way I Feel" and "Ship of Fools". Several years after this was released, I saw him on David Letterman, hair grown back out, covered in beads and bracelets. The end had arrived, and I don't see how he can ever recover.
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