Robert Plant - Dreamland

Give Plant credit: he hasn’t succumbed to fans’ demands for him to reproduce Led Zeppelin’s sound. Instead, building on the global hybrid he and Jimmy Page forged on the No Quarter tour, he puts a new spin on classic folk, blues and psychedelic numbers using hypnotic Asian drones and complex Middle Eastern scales. Thus, Plant’s version of Bukka White’s “Funny in My Mind (I’m Fixin’ to Die)” would rock any casbah. And his rendition of Tim Buckley’s “Song to the Siren” boasts a transcendental eastern vibe.