Robert Plant - Honey Drippers Blue Note Club 1981 AUD FLAC

The Honeydrippers Blue Note Club Derby U.K. April 21 1981
Audience Recording

Disc One (43:11)
CD01 01 - Little Sister
CD01 02 - Hey Mae
CD01 03 - Lotta Lovin'
CD01 04 - You True Love
CD01 05 - Deep In The Heart Of Texas
CD01 06 - Honky Tonk
CD01 07 - How Many More Years
CD01 08 - Cross Cut Saw
CD01 09 - Bring It On Home
CD01 10 - I Can't Be Satisfied

Disc Two (42:42)
CD02 01 - Treat Me Right
CD02 02 - Born Under A Bad Sign
CD02 03 - Keep On Lovin' Me Babe
CD02 04 - What Can I Do
CD02 05 - Tell Me How
CD02 06 - Queen Of The Hop
CD02 07 - She She Little Sheila
CD02 08 - Got My Mojo Workin'

In 1981 Plant put together the Honeydrippers.

Reeling from both the death of his longtime friend Bonham, 
with whom he’d played in the Band of Joy before Led Zeppelin, 
Plant sought out a place of comfort, both musically and 
personally. In order to escape his recent past he pursued a 
more distant, almost mythological past. He began convening 
with musicians he’d known since he was a schoolboy hanging 
around Midlands blues clubs, and together they proceeded to 
jam on the kind of early rock & roll/R&B tunes that Plant 
loved when he was a kid.

Starting either at Keele University in Staffordshire on 
March 3 or at a bar in Stourbridge on March 9, depending on 
the source, the Honeydrippers hit a string of small venues 
including pubs, colleges, and small clubs, each show 
unadvertised – and all well clear of London, either in the 
Midlands or points north. It wasn’t just that they took the 
stage with their amps stacked on beer crates, in stark 
contrast to the convoy of trucks that hauled Led Zeppelin’s 
equipment around, or that Zep’s outsized hard-rock 
extravaganzas been replaced by the two-and-a-half-minute 
wham-bam of classic blues and rock ‘n’ roll tunes. A more 
symbolic but equally striking alteration had occurred.

The original Honeydrippers’ lifespan would be brief. By 1982, 
Plant (with Robbie Blunt by his side), would return to a 
mainstream rock feel for his first solo album, Pictures at 
Eleven, but the precedent had been established for the kind 
of mercurial moves Plant would continue to make throughout 
his career