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Walking Into Clarksdale

Walking Into Clarksdale is a studio album by Jimmy Page and Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant, released by Atlantic Records on April 21, 1998. The follow-up album to No Quarter, Walking into Clarksdale took 35 days to record, with co-production by Nirvana producer Steve Albini. Like the preceeding recording and tour, John Paul Jones was not present. The single "Most High" was awarded a Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance in 1999. Clarksdale is a town in the North Mississippi Delta, a historical home of Delta blues music.

The album was #8 on debut on the Billboard's Pop Albums chart.

Table of contents
1 Track listing
2 Personnel
3 Chart positions
4 Additional notes

Track listing

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

Total album length: 60:50 minutes

Personnel

  • Jimmy Page - Acoustic and electric guitars, mandolin, producer
  • Robert Plant - Vocals, producer
  • Charlie Jones - Bass guitar, percussion
  • Michael Lee - Drums and percussion
  • Timothy Whelan - Keyboards
  • Ed Shearmur - Programming, string pads
  • Lynton Naiff - String arrangements
  • Steve Albini - Producer, engineer, recording technician
  • Paul Hicks - Assistant engineer
  • Anton Corbijn - Photography
  • Cally - Design

Chart positions

Billboard Music Charts (North America) - singles
1998	Most High                   Pop      Singles	             No. -
1998   Shining in the Light        Pop      Singles                 No. -

Additional notes

Recorded at
Abbey Road Studios, London, England.

Catalogue: Atlantic 83092 2





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