FORMER Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant returned to Glastonbury Festival to play a set with Alison Krauss.
The duo, who published two albums, played at the Pyramid stage on Friday, June 24, and entertained festivalgoers with a set that included material born from their partnership.
Nostalgic fans though also had the chance to listen to the band’s rendition of some Led Zeppelin songs.
The band started the set with songs like Trouble With My Lover, recorded for their second album together, Raise the Roof.
Then the duo, supported by a band including acoustic guitars, violin, upright bass, piano, and banjo, played some famous Led Zeppelin songs.
They started with Rock and Roll, a more tribal version compared to the one recorded for Led Zeppelin IV, but just as powerful, with guitar riffs that must have reminded the crowd of Chuck Berry.
Some of the most bluesy, acoustic Led Zep material was also included in their set.
Plant and Krauss continued their show by playing The Battle of Evermore - a song that perfectly captured the spirit of the band - and closed their exhibition with a medley that included When the Levee Breaks, a blues song originally written in the 1930s, and snippets of Friends.
In between, there was also room for their own version of Fortune Teller and a tribute to Bert Jansch, a Scottish folk musician who surely was a huge influence on Plant, and Jimmy Page, in the 1960s.
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss released their first album, Raising Sand, in 2007.
A second album, Raise the Roof, followed last year.
The duo is currently on tour with dates scheduled in Europe and the United States.
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