Sixty Six to Timbuktu
Sixty Six to Timbuktu is an album featuring the 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 "Burning Down One Side", "Moonlight in Samosa", "Slow Dancer", "Other Arms", "In the Mood", and "Hurting Kind (I've Got My  Eyes on You)". Background. Former bandmate Jimmy Page played on four songs: Plant's "Tall Cool One", The Honeydrippers' "Sea of Love", "Heaven Knows" and Rainer Ptacek's "Rude World". The Cure's Porl Thompson played guitar on three songs on this album: '"Dirt in a Hole", "Darkness, Darkness", and Tim Buckley's "Song to the Siren". On the song "Win My Train Fare Home", Thompson contributed to the writing of that song but did not play on the live version.