The songs " Misty Mountain Hop ", " That's the Way ", and early dabblings in what would become " Stairway to Heaven " were written in Wales and lyrically reflect Plant's mystical view of the land.

Critic Steve Turner suggests that Plant's early and continued experiences in Wales served as the foundation for his broader interest in the mythologies he revisits in his lyrics ( including those myth systems of Tolkien and the Norse ).

Liam Tyson joined Robert Plant's band, Strange Sensation in early 2002, touring Plant's album Dreamland before appearing on and co-writing the follow-up Mighty ReArranger.

Arguably one of Plant's most significant achievements with Led Zeppelin was his contribution to the track " Stairway to Heaven ", an epic rock ballad featured on Led Zeppelin IV that drew influence from folk, blues, Celtic traditional music and hard rock among other genres.

The lines " One of these days and it won't be long / You'll look for me but baby I'll be gone " quote the Ray Charles song " I Believe to My Soul ", demonstrating Robert Plant's affinity for rhythm and blues.

The album, More Oar: A Tribute to the Skip Spence Album ( Birdman, 1999 ), with the album title referring to Spence's only solo album, Oar ( Columbia, 1969 ), contained Plant's version of Spence's " Little Hands ".

Author Margaret Plant's monograph John Perceval, was published in 1971.

Because of Plant's injuries Led Zeppelin did not tour in 1976.

Collins had contributed to Plant's first two solo albums while Martinez was a member of Plant's group Band of Joy.

The performance was marred by the lack of rehearsal with the two drummers, Page's struggles with an out-of-tune guitar, poorly functioning monitors, and by Plant's hoarse voice.

Particularly from Led Zeppelin III, they incorporated elements of mythology and mysticism into their music, which largely grew out of Plant's interest in legends and history.

In the later part of the band's career Plant's lyrics became more autobiographical, and less optimistic, drawing on his own experiences and circumstances.

Plant's use of high-pitched shrieks has been compared to Janis Joplin's vocal technique.

The concert was originally released in VHS form ( usually in two tape releases worldwide ), but due to time limitations, the last two songs by Extreme, the first two of Def Leppard, and the song of Spinal Tap " The Majesty of Rock " were deleted ( along with Robert Plant's " Innuendo ") in the original release.

Robert Plant's teeth had also been fixed between the 1973 and 1974 filmings.

A plan to shoot additional footage on the band's Autumn 1975 U. S. tour was abandoned due to Plant's car crash in Rhodes, Greece.

He is the consummate executive and personal assistant of Springfield Nuclear Power Plant's owner Montgomery Burns.

Plant's railroad line reached Tampa and its port shortly thereafter, finally connecting the small town to the nation's railroad system after years of efforts by local leaders.

Plant's railroad made it much easier to get goods in and out of the Tampa Bay area.

Proximity to Cuba made importation of " clear Havana tobacco " easy by sea, and Plant's railroad made shipment of finished cigars to the rest of the US market easy by land.

Plant's resort featured a race track, a heated indoor pool, a golf course, a 2000-seat auditorium, tennis courts, stables, hunting and fishing tours, and electric lights and telephones in every room, plus the first elevator in town and exotic art collectibles which Plant had shipped in from around the world.

Mainly because of Henry Plant's connections in the War Department, Tampa was chosen as an embarkation center for American troops in the Spanish-American War.

The discovery of phosphate, the arrival of Plant's railroad, and the founding of Ybor City and West Tampa — all in the mid-1880s — were crucial to Tampa's development.

Plant's lyrics with Led Zeppelin were often mystical, philosophical and spiritual, alluding to events in classical and Norse mythology, such as " Immigrant Song ", which refers to Valhalla and Viking conquests.

Welsh mythology also forms a basis of Plant's interest in mystical lyrics.

) Plant's first son, Karac, was named after the Welsh warrior Caratacus.

Tracing the blues from its African roots among the slaves who were brought to this country and the West Indies, he stressed the close relationship between the early jazz forms and the music of the Negro churches.

The concept of playing solo steel-string guitar in a concert setting was introduced in the early 1960s by such performers as Davey Graham and John Fahey, who used country blues fingerpicking techniques to compose original compositions with structures somewhat like European classical music.

By the early 1910s, Jefferson began traveling frequently to Dallas, where he met and played with fellow blues musician Lead Belly.

" According to North Carolina musician Walter Davis, Jefferson played on the streets in Johnson City, Tennessee, during the early 1920s at which time Davis and fellow entertainer Clarence Greene learned the art of blues guitar.

As new genres of music, such as ragtime, blues and jazz, began to emerge in the early 20th century the popularity of the genre faded, but the association with sentimentality led to the term ballad being used for a slow love song from the 1950s onwards.

A form of folk music which rose in part from work songs and field hollers of rural Blacks, early blues was also highly improvisational.

However, as Gerhard Kubik points out, whereas the spirituals are homophonic, rural blues and early jazz " was largely based on concepts of heterophony.

In an obituary of Arthur Lee in early 2007, Kandia Crazy Horse of Vibe Magazine wrote that "' Forever Changes ' ( was ) his psychedelic masterpiece ... an exhilarating mash-up of West Side freak folk with East Side mariachi and blues.

Unlike many of his contemporaries, he did not record in the early blues era, but his life is well documented thanks to his autobiography, I Say Me for a Parable: The Oral Autobiography of Mance Lipscomb, Texas Bluesman, narrated to Glen Alyn, which was published posthumously, and also a short 1971 documentary by Les Blank, A Well Spent Life.

There had long been a culture of drug use among jazz and blues musicians, and, in the early 1960s, use of drugs ( including cannabis, peyote, mescaline and LSD ) had begun to grow among folk and rock musicians, who also began to include drug references in their songs.

Rock and roll ( often written as rock & roll or rock ' n ' roll ) is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s, primarily from a combination of African American blues, country, jazz, and gospel music.

Most of Presley's early hits were covers of black rhythm and blues or blues songs, like " That's All Right " ( a countrified arrangement of a blues number ), " Baby Let's Play House ", " Lawdy Miss Clawdy " and " Hound Dog ".

As the blues became an increasingly significant influence, leading to the creation of the blues-rock of groups like The Moody Blues, Small Faces, The Move, Traffic and Cream, and developing into rock music, the influence of early rock and roll began to subside.

The Memphis Jug Band, an early blues group, whose lyrical content and rhythmic singing predated rapping.

Grammy-winning blues musician / historian Elijah Wald and others have argued that the blues were being rapped as early as the 1920s.

In the early 1950s, the term rhythm and blues was frequently applied to blues records.

Gerhard Kubik notes that with the exception of New Orleans, early blues lacked complex polyrhythms, and there was a " very specific absence of asymmetric time-line patterns ( key patterns ) in virtually all early-twentieth-century African American music.

In several of his early recordings, Professor Longhair blended Afro-Cuban rhythms with rhythm and blues.

By the early 1960s, the music industry category previously known as rhythm and blues was being called soul music, and similar music by white artists was labeled blue eyed soul.

British rhythm and blues developed in the early 1960s, largely as a response to the recordings of American artists, often brought over by African American servicemen stationed in Britain during the Cold War, or merchant seamen visiting ports such as London, Liverpool, Newcastle on Tyne and Belfast.

Initially developing out of the trad jazz, skiffle and folk club scenes, early artists tended to focus on major blues performers and standard forms, particularly Alexis Korner, who acted as a mentor to members of The Rolling Stones, The Yardbirds, Manfred Mann, the Graham Bond Organisation and The Kinks.