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Sixty Six to Timbuktu | 
| Artist: Robert Plant
Label: Atlantic / Wea
Category: Music
Buy New: $24.98
Rating:  58 reviews
Sales Rank: 76503
Format: Original Recording Remastered, Enhanced
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 5 x 0.4
MPN: 83626
UPC: 766481285045
EAN: 0075678362620
ASIN: B0000DIZQQ
Release Date: November 4, 2003
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
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Disc 1
| • | Tie Dye on the Highway - Robert Plant, Plant | | • | Upside Down - Robert Plant, Johnstone | | • | Promised Land - Robert Plant, Plant | | • | Tall Cool One - Robert Plant, Plant | | • | Dirt in a Hole - Robert Plant, Plant | | • | Calling to You - Robert Plant, Plant | | • | 29 Palms | | • | If I Were a Carpenter - Robert Plant, Hardin, Tim | | • | Sea of Love - Robert Plant, Baptiste, Phillip | | • | Darkness, Darkness - Robert Plant, Young, Jesse Colin | | • | Big Log - Robert Plant, Plant | | • | Ship of Fools - Robert Plant, Plant | | • | I Believe - Robert Plant, Plant | | • | Little By Little - Robert Plant, Plant | | • | Heaven Knows - Robert Plant, Johnstone | | • | Song to the Siren - Robert Plant, Buckley, Tim |
Disc 2
| • | You'd Better Run - Robert Plant, Brigati, E. | | • | Our Song - Robert Plant, Bindi | | • | Hey Joe - Robert Plant, Roberts, William | | • | Operator - Robert Plant, Korner | | • | Road to the Sun - Robert Plant, Plant | | • | Philadelphia Baby - Robert Plant, Rich, Charlie | | • | Red Is for Danger - Robert Plant, George, Robin | | • | Let's Have a Party - Robert Plant, Robinson | | • | Hey Jayne - Robert Plant, Plant | | • | Louie, Louie - Robert Plant, Berry, Richard | | • | Naked if I Want To - Robert Plant, Miller, Jerry | | • | For What It's Worth - Robert Plant, Stills, Stephen | | • | If It's Really Got to Be This Way - Robert Plant, Alexander | | • | Rude World - Robert Plant, Ptacek, Rainer | | • | Little Hands - Robert Plant, Spence, Skip | | • | Life Begin Again - Robert Plant, Emmerson, Simon | | • | Let the Boogie Woogie Roll - Robert Plant, Ertegun | | • | Win My Train Fare Home - Robert Plant, Plant |
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Album Description
Special limited edition double gatefold digipak of 2003 album features 37 tracks including 2 bonus CD-rom videos for 'Darkness, Darkness' & 'Calling To You'. Atlantic.
Album Details
UK Edition with Two Bonus Video Tracks,"Darkness Darkness" on the First CD and "Calling to You" on the Second. Digitally Remastered 35 Track, Double Disc Set Spans the Full Range of Robert Plant's Innovative Work Before and after Led Zeppelin. This Incredible Varied Collection Runs the Gamut from his First 1966 Pre-zeppelin Single "You Better Run" (A Young Rascals Cover) to "Win My Train Fare Home" Recorded in Timbuktu in 2003. Cd1 features 16 Songs Taken from Eight Post-zeppelin Albums. Cd2 is a Collector's Dream featuring a Treasure Trove of Rarities and Previously Unreleased Material.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 53 more reviews...
 Robert Plant Montage August 20, 2008
Andrew C. Mccarville (Elk Grove,Calif USA)
I think if you like Robert Plant you will be so very surprised by the songs on these cd's. It is a montage of Robert Plant covering alot of ground it's not a best of and its not just B sides...it is amazing to hear Robert do Hey Joe and Louie Louie among other songs that will blow you away. I have played some of these tunes and no one could even say who it was since it really shows his range...Get it you won't be sorry...some of it is like Led Zeppelin's lost songs.
 Good collection but missing some key songs May 17, 2007
C. Olsen (Portland, OR)
I realize people are insisting this is not a greatest hits, but how can you claim to have a cross-section of his work captured here when you don't include anything from one of his albums, "Pictures At Eleven"? Sure, maybe you miss a few of his popular tracks in order to get some of the B-side material, but let's get real here.
Definetely worth it. January 25, 2007
P. Andre Gosselin
Very good compilation and mastering of rare early songs and demos,and the best of Plant's solo career on a nice two disc package,though with a big omission in not including "In the Mood",one of his biggest radio hits and a fine 80's song to boot.
Great career retrospective with lots of previously unavailable/rare stuff on the second disc January 4, 2007
Wayne Klein (My Little Blue Window, USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
With the reissue of his back catalog forthcoming (in March 2007 but also available now in the boxed set "Nine Lives"), it's tempting to see "Sixty Six to Timbuktu" as not that essential for fans of Plant. That would be wrong. This isn't a "greatest hits" compilation so much as a brief career retrospective of Plant's work before and after Led Zep. True, the first disc has many of his hits but its missing just as many in favor of more obscure stuff. Plant's clearly tried to assemble his best material (in his mind)in a single set.
The first set has many of the popular hits that Plant recorded after Led Zep disbanded. We get 15 songs that were either hits singles or received a lot of airplay when they were released. Fans that want an album sequence chronologically will probably be frustrated as Plant has placed these songs based on the feel and how they flow from one track to another (for example "Little by Little" from Plant's third solo album "Shaken 'n' Stirred" is the next to last track on the first disc).
The second disc is a joy to have. It features a pair of singles that Plant recorded with his first band Listen in 1965/6. These are followed by a pair of demos from Band of Joy where Plant first hooked up with fellow Led Zep alum Bonzo (John Bonham). It's petty clear he's on the album, too, as Bonham's bashing drums are as much an important part of the recording as Plant's vocals. "Hey Joe" recorded in 1967 as a demo (the same year that Hendrix released his definitive version) more than holds its own compared to Hendrix's version with slashing guitar but, more importantly, Bonham's powerful drums backing Plant's impassioned vocal. "Operator" is a pre-LZ collabortion with Alexis Korner that prefigures the blues performances that would dominate the first LZ album.
The rest of the CD is made up of one-off recordings that Plant did for various tributes albums and soundtracks. They're all fun and essential for fans. "Let's Have a Party" from the charity CD "The Last Temptation of Elvis", and "Hey Jayne" was a B-side for "I Believe" featuring Plant on vocals and sitar (!). Next up is a cover of the classic tune "Louie Louie" with Plant on lead guitar. "Naked If I Wanted To" is a cover of the classic Moby Grape song from that band's first album. "Little Hands" is also a cover of Skip Spence's song from the solo album "Oar" (Spence was a member of Moby Grape and also briefly a member of the Jefferson Airplane). "Philadelphia Baby" features Dave Edmunds playing lead guitar with the band that Plant assembled for "The Principle of Moments". This track was a song recorded in 1983 but finished in 1985 and appeared on the "Revenge of Porky's" soundtrack. "21 Years" is a collaboration that Plant did with guitarist Rainer Ptcak and "Rude World" is from Ptcak's album featuring Plant and Jimmy Page on guitar. "If It's Really Got To Be This Way" is from a tribute album to Arthur Alexander. "Let the Boogie Woogie Roll" comes from Plant's appearence on Jool's Holland's "More Friends" album while "Life Begins Again" dates from a collaboration with Afro Celt System. The album closes with a live performance of "Win My Train Fare Home" performed in of all place Timbuktu with the Strange Sensations Plant's latest backing band.
This is well worth picking up for fans of Plant with the second disc of previously unavaiable songs. I also forgot to mention that a previously unreleased track appears on the first disc as well. "Upside Down" is written by the same team that wrote Plant's hit "Heaven Knows". This is a nice companion piece to the remastered "Nine Lives" boxed set even if 15 of the 16 tracks on the first disc duplicate what appear on the remastered albums. Bravo Robert! A great career retrospective this will probably be best appreciated by fans who have listened to and collected Plant's work since his Led Zep days. He has a restless, experimental spirit as a musician/singer and it's very much in evidence here.
great "bonus" songs November 28, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
First and foremost: who the heck said this was a "Greatest Hits Album"? the title isn't "The Very Best of Robert Plant" or maybe I'm just blind. For those of you whining cause his "greatest hits" aren't here, maybe you should read the liner notes where he says specifically that he DOESN'T want this album to be a "greatest hits" collection. He was reaching for more of a career retrospective, something to see how he's evolved over the years, not what's garnered attention. Anyway, even if you have all his studio albums, you must pick this one up, there's really only a few songs on here from his past solo albums, the rest are some great treasures that any Plant fan would love, sure they're not all like Zeppelin songs, but this isn't a Zeppelin album, sure they don't all sound like Plant's other studio songs, but we're not reviewing songs based on how similar they sound to past, present or future songs, but on how GOOD they are, something this album certainly is. Be sure to get your copy, Nine Lives should be filled with lot's of great bonus stuff as well.
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