World Cafe Playlist for 09/25/2025
Robert Plant joins host Talia Schlanger
Led Zeppelin lead singer Robert Plant has followed his love of music to unexpected places since the ’70s – like his Grammy-winning collaboration with Alison Krauss, Raising Sand, to the mesmerizing world influence on his 2017 album, Carry Fire. In an encore edition of the World Cafe, hear Plant talk about rifling through Jimmy Page’s record collection and what it was like interpreting cover songs with Krauss and Patty Griffin.
Today’s Playlist
Bon Iver “Beth/Rest” Bon Iver, Bon Iver
Robert Plant “Carry Fire” Carry Fire
Led Zeppelin “Kashmir” Physical Graffiti
Robert Plant “Season’s Song” Carry Fire
Led Zeppelin “Immigrant Song” Led Zeppelin III
Joe Jackson “Caravan” The Duke
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss “Please Read The Letter” Raising Sand
Robert Plant “A Way With Words” Carry Fire
Howlin’ Wolf “Forty Four” Anthology
Robert Plant “Heaven Sent” Recorded Live for World Cafe
Girls “Summertime” Girls
Big Thief “All Night All Day” Double Infinity
The Killers “When You Were Young” Sam’s Town
Bob Dylan “Like a Rolling Stone” Highway 61 Revisited
Hour Two
Daft Punk “Digital Love” Discovery
Chrissie Hynde “Me and Mrs. Jones (feat. k.d. lang)” Duets Special
Citizen Cope “Bullet And A Target” The Clarence Greenwood Recordings
flipturn “Burnout Days” Burnout Days
Lola Young “Messy” This Wasn’t Meant For You Anyway
Dawes “All Your Favorite Bands” Recorded Live for World Cafe
David Bowie “Scary Monsters” Recorded Live for World Cafe
The Swell Season “People We Used to Be” Recorded Live for World Cafe
Mavis Staples “Beautiful Strangers” Sad and Beautiful World
The White Stripes “The Hardest Button to Button” Elephant
Soccer Mommy “Driver” Evergreen
Low “Lies” Recorded Live for World Cafe
Wednesday “Wound Up Here (By Holdin On)” Bleeds
The Cure “Let’s Go To Bed” Japanese Whispers
Lenny Kravitz “Fly Away” 5
Gigi Perez “At The Beach, In Every Life” At The Beach, In Every Life