Led Zeppelin
I am super excited about my trip down to California.
Erika and I are planning on leaving today, after she gets off work, and beginning the drive southward. We'll spend the night somewhere on the road, and make it to Los Angeles on Thursday. After celebrating the marriage of a couple friends, we'll head back on Sunday, but we're taking the slow road, through the Sierra Nevada. Just like we did with the coastal range, and the cascades, we're gonna head to the mountains and do our best to find ourselves some places off the beaten path. I'm open to suggestions, if people have recommendations for places worth visiting in the northern Sierra.
So, you can probably already guess that I'm featuring Going to California, another acoustic gem from the hardest rock group in England in the early 1970s, Led Zeppelin. Sans drummer John Bonham, this classic track off the mysterious fourth Led Zep album, features Jimmy Page on acoustic guitar and John Paul Jones on mandolin, with Plant singing of course. It's a delicate tale which Plant wrote when he was in his early 20s, about his time in California. Parts of it are, apparently, about singer Joni Mitchell, whom Plant had something of a crush on when he wrote it.
For me, this song brings me back to my Freshman year of high school, when I first started exploring Classic Rock on CD. I think I can feel my acne breaking out!
Going to California - Led Zeppelin
1971 - Led Zeppelin IV (ZoSo)
Classic Rock - Acoustic
Track Length - 3:32
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