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Instead, their collaboration sounds timeless, haunting, and melancholic.
I mean, its tough out there!
You dont choose songs.
They come and find you.
And when it goes wrong, people can empathize with it.
No one is pushing for one that another person isnt interested in.
And without trying to do anything, nothing was planned out or contrived about this project.
Other than you knew the cast.
RP:Theres so many invisible forces.
CH: Theres an improvisatory way that you approach song-making.
Then we know were moving someplace different.
Hes very much into capturing that specific moment including lead vocals.
CH: There is an ease in which you all move across decades and genres.
We have country bluegrass, R&B, gospel, soul, folk, Americana.
It seems to me, its the relationship between you all that unites them.RP:Its the adventure.
We just want it to, as Alison said, get it right.
Its no great mystery.
There are about another 10 million songs that we can use.
CH: You cover Merle Haggards 1982 country hit Going Where the Lonely Go.
Like its just always been in the ether.
The company you keep defines your borders on what to do.
I dont know where hes going to go from moment to moment.
I dont know what hes going to say moment to moment!
CH: Robert, there are so many wonderful UK folk songs on here.
One that stands out to me is Go Your Own Way.
She sang on The Battle of Evermore.
Robert, Im assuming that this was your pick.
And parallel to that, there was a fantastic folk scene, just as there was in your country.
And I was just moved.
I was a kid and I didnt know, I never did analyze anything at all.
I was just immediately moved by something or not.
But for me, just listening to that whole movement of that underground.
Its just another part of the whole deal.
And that was a part of Led Zepplin.
So yeah, it was really not that far at all.
They didnt have the qualifications to break through the great pop charade.
But theyre all there.
All those songs are all there.
And the roots of them are just, theyre equally as relevant.
CH: Youre leaning into traditions that dont get noticed.
Scottish folk songs and bluegrass ballads are back to back on your album.
Thats actually a fact.
CH: Throughout your careers all three of you have been interpreters of songs.
What responsibilities do you all bring as long interpreters?RP:Oh, golly.
I mean, we could do this really badly.
It could have been awful.
If we dont do it very well, you aint going to hear it.
But, this is notThe Book of KellsorThe Mabinogion.
This is not pre-Christian Welsh history.
