Sixty Six to Timbuktu

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Sixty Six to Timbuktu

Compilation album by Robert Plant

Released

November 4, 2003

Recorded

1966-2003

Genre

Classic Rock

Length

146:53

Label

Atlantic Records (US/Canada)
Mercury Records

Producer

Gary Nicholson, Nugetre, Tim Palmer, Martin Russell, Jon Tiven, Simon Emmerson, Danny Kessler, Benji Lefevre, Sally Tiven, The Pat Moran Quartet, Roger Bolton, Phil Andrews, Charlie Jones, Phil Brown, Donnie Fritts, Robin George, The Fabulous Brill Brothers, Chris Hughes, Phil Johnstone, Laurie Latham, Robert Plant, Alexis Korner

Professional reviews

Robert Plant chronology

Dreamland
(2002)

Sixty Six to Timbuktu
(2003)

Mighty ReArranger
(2005)

Sixty Six to Timbuktu is a greatest hits album and a history of the career of Robert Plant, from 1966 to a recording done at the Festival in the Desert in Mali. The album was released in 2003 and contains songs from Plant's eight solo albums up to the time of its release on its first disc, and rarities on its second disc. Some of his well known songs were omitted from this release, such as "In The Mood", "Rockin' at Midnight", "Burning Down One Side", and "Hurting Kind (I've Got My Eyes on You)".

[edit] Track listing

[edit] Disc one

"Tie Dye on the Highway" (Chris Blackwell, Robert Plant) – 5:09
"Upside Down" (David Barratt, Phil Johnstone) – 4:10
"Promised Land" (Johnstone, Plant) – 4:59
"Tall Cool One" (Johnstone, Plant) – 4:37
"Dirt in a Hole" (Justin Adams, John Baggot, Clive Dreamer, Charlie Jones, Robert Plant, Porl Thompson) – 4:44
"Calling to You" (Blackwell, Plant) – 5:49
"29 Palms" (Blackwell, Doug Boyle, Johnstone, Jones, Plant) – 4:51
"If I Were a Carpenter" (Tim Hardin) – 3:47
"Sea of Love" (Phillip Baptiste, George Khoury) – 3:04
"Darkness, Darkness" (Jesse Colin Young) – 5:03
"Big Log" (Robbie Blunt, Plant, Jezz Woodroffe) – 5:03
"Ship of Fools" (Johnstone, Plant) – 4:58
"I Believe" (Johnstone, Plant) – 4:54
"Little By Little" (Plant, Woodroffe) – 4:41
"Heaven Knows" (David Barratt, Phil Johnstone) – 4:04
"Song to the Siren" (Larry Beckett, Tim Buckley) – 4:06

[edit] Disc two

"You'd Better Run" (Eddie Brigati, Felix Cavaliere) – 2:29
"Our Song" (Umberto Bindi/Califano/Clarke) – 2:31
"Hey Joe (Demo Version)" (William Roberts) – 4:58
"For What It's Worth (Demo Version)" (Stephen Stills) – 3:30
"Operator" (Alexis Korner, Steve Miller, Plant) – 4:36
"Road to the Sun" (Barriemore Barlow, Robbie Blunt, Phil Collins, Paul Martinez, Plant, Woodroffe) – 5:35
"Philadelphia Baby" (Charlie Rich) – 2:13
"Red Is for Danger" (Robin George) – 3:38
"Let's Have a Party" (Jessie Mae Robinson) – 3:40
"Hey Jayne" (Jones, Plant) – 5:23
"Louie, Louie" (Richard Berry) – 2:52
"Naked if I Want To" (Jerry Miller) – 0:46
"21 Years" (Plant, Rainer Ptacek) – 3:30
"If It's Really Got to Be This Way" (Arthur Alexander, Donnie Fritts, Gary Nicholson) – 3:59
"Rude World" (Ptacek) – 3:45
"Little Hands" (Skip Spence) – 4:19
"Life Begin Again" (Simon Emmerson, Iarla Ó Lionáird, Mass, James McNally, Martin Russell) – 6:19
"Let the Boogie Woogie Roll" (Ahmet Ertegün, Jerry Wexler) – 2:36
"Win My Train Fare Home (Live)" (Adams, Baggott, Dreamer, Jones, Plant, Thompson) – 6:15

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Live albums	No Quarter: Jimmy Page and Robert Plant Unledded

Compilations and box sets	Sixty Six to Timbuktu · Nine Lives

DVDs	Soundstage: Robert Plant and the Strange Sensation

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