Mighty Rearranger by Robert Plant (CD, May-2005, Sanctuary (USA))

Album Features
UPC:	060768474727
Artist:	Robert Plant
Format:	CD
Release Year:	2005
Record Label:	Sanctuary (USA)
Genre:	Hard Rock, Rock & Pop

Track Listing
1. Another Tribe
2. Shine It All Around
3. Freedom Fries
4. Tin Pan Valley
5. All the King's Horses
6. Enchanter, The
7. Takamba
8. Dancing in Heaven
9. Somebody Knocking
10. Let the Four Winds Blow
11. Mighty Rearranger
12. Brother Ray

Details
Distributor:	BMG (distributor)
Recording Type:	Studio
Recording Mode:	Stereo
SPAR Code:	n/a

Album Notes
Robert Plant & the Strange Sensation: John Baggot (Moog synthesizer); Billy Fuller (double bass, bass guitar); Justin Adams , Skin Tyson (bass guitar); Robert Plant, Clive Deamer.Personnel: Robert Plant (vocals, harmonica); Skin Tyson (acoustic guitar, electric guitar, lap steel guitar); Justin Adams (electric guitar, lap steel guitar, bendir); John Baggot (keyboards, electronics); Clive Deamer (drums, bendir).Audio Mixer: Steve Evans .Recording information: Attic Studio, Kingswood; Dol Goch, Cwm Einion; Ellenbury, Bath, Somerset, England; Livingstone Studio, London, England; Riverside, Bathampton; The Lodge, Bathford; The Windtunnel.Creators: Robert Plant; John Baggot; Clive Deamer; Justin Adams ; Skin Tyson.Illustrator: Grahame Baker Smith.Against all odds, Robert Plant, the ultimate '70s rock god, has consistently managed to remain artistically relevant throughout the decades of his post-Led Zeppelin career. In the 1980s he updated his sound to incorporate an almost new-wave sensibility on his solo albums, as well as turning the clock all the way back to the '50s with jump-blues band the Honeydrippers--hardly the stuff of "Kashmir."While there are some echoes of Zep on MIGHTY REARRANGER (Bonhamesque whomping drums, Middle Eastern influences, transmogrified blues riffs), Plant isn't resting on his laurels here. The synth-filled "Tin Pan Valley" bears more of a relation to trip-hop than to blues-rock; "Brother Ray" is a quirky, lo-fi piano boogie; and for much of the album Plant veers toward the lower, more intimate end of his vocal range, largely eschewing the high-pitched wail that made him a superstar in bygone stadium-rock days. Plant is joined here by the musicians who helped make his covers album DREAMLAND such a worthy project, and it sounds like they managed to gel into a full-fledged band, giving their leader a solid framework to work his often-hypnotic magic.

Editorial Reviews
4 stars out of 5 - MIGHTY REARRANGER is arguably Plant's most Zeppelinesque solo work to date....Plant's determination not to rest on his laurels has served him well here...
Mojo

Ranked #19 in Mojo's The 50 Best Albums Of 2005 - [With] Arab strands, ZEP III pscyh-folk and Thor's hammer rock.
Mojo

4 stars out of 5 - A record of considerable depth, admirable adventure and surprising passion.
Uncut

3.5 stars out of 5 - [T]he North African influences and trip-hop touches are deployed in the service of thunderous blues-based rockers and pretty pastoral ballads....Plant's inner black dog is howling again.
Rolling Stone