Description
The backstory of this album of covers starts following an impromptu ‘Whole Lotta Love’ rendition in a studio a few years back when she was invited to do a whole album of Zep covers, but declined. A few years later, and the effects of the pandemic and tours cancelled etc. changed her approach & she was ready & willing to take up the challenge.
Her choice of Zep material comes from a range of their albums, and all the arrangements stay faithful to the record. She starts with a powerful version of a perennial Zep stage favourite, ‘Whole Lotta Love’, and if Robert Plant was female, this is how he’d sound. She’s also courageous in her choices as it takes real chutzpah to cover classic Zep tracks like ‘Kashmir’, but she does as good a version as you’ll ever hear, capturing the power and intensity of the song. Similarly with ‘No Quarter’ and ‘Stairway To Heaven’, where her impassioned vocals carry both off in style.
overall Beth Hart puts her soul into this album, and when she sings “Good times, bad times, you know I’ve had my share,” you know she’s singing from the heart. The songs she’s chosen to cover shows the breadth of the musical spectrum Zep operated in.
