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Walking Into Clarksdale is a studio album by Jimmy Page and Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant, released by Atlantic Records on April 21, 1998. The follow-up album to No Quarter, Walking into Clarksdale took 35 days to record, with co-production by Nirvana producer Steve Albini. Like the preceding recording and tour, John Paul Jones was not present. The single "Most High" was awarded a Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance in 1999. Clarksdale is a town in the North Mississippi Delta, a historical home of Delta blues music.

The album was #8 on debut on the Billboard's Pop Albums chart.

1 Track listing

1. "Shining in the Light" (Page/Plant/Jones/Lee) 4:01
2. "When the World Was Young" (Page/Plant/Jones/Lee) 6:13
3. "Upon a Golden Horse" (Page/Plant/Jones/Lee) 3:52
4. "Blue Train" (Page/Plant/Jones/Lee) 6:45
5. "Please Read the Letter" (Page/Plant/Jones/Lee) 4:21
6. "Most High" (Page/Plant/Jones/Lee) 5:36
7. "Heart in Your Hand" (Page/Plant/Jones/Lee) 3:50
8. "Walking into Clarksdale" (Page/Plant/Jones/Lee) 5:18
9. "Burning Up" (Page/Plant/Jones/Lee) 5:21
10. "When I Was a Child" (Page/Plant/Jones/Lee) 5:45
11. "House of Love" (Page/Plant/Jones/Lee) 5:35
12. "Sons of Freedom" (Page/Plant/Jones/Lee) 4:08

Total album length: 60:50 minutes

2 Personnel

• Jimmy Page - Acoustic and electric guitars, mandolin, producer
• Robert Plant - Vocals, producer
• Charlie Jones - Bass guitar, percussion
• Michael Lee - Drums and percussion
• Timothy Whelan - Keyboards
• Ed Shearmur - Programming, string pads
• Lynton Naiff - String arrangements
• Steve Albini - Producer, engineer, recording technician
• Paul Hicks - Assistant engineer
• Anton Corbijn - Photography
• Cally - Design

3 Chart positions

4 Additional notes

Recorded at Abbey Road StudiosAbbey Road Studios created in November of 1931 by EMI in London, England, is best known as the legendary recording studio used by the rock bands, Cliff Richard and the Shadows and The Beatles. The studios are located in Abbey Road, in Camden. Studio Two a, LondonLondon is the capital of the United Kingdom and of England, and with over seven million inhabitants in the Greater London area, is the second-most populous conurbation in Europe (after Moscow). From being Londinium the capital of the Roman province of Bri, EnglandEngland is the largest, the most populous, and the most densely populated of the four " Home Nations" which make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK). Occupying the south-eastern portion of the island of Great Britain, England.

Catalogue: Atlantic 83092 2