Robert Plant receives Lifetime Achievement Award at Americana Fest

Robert Plant chose to accept the honour with a pointed performance of "Satan Your Kingdom Must Come Down" at the Ryman. 

Watch Robert Plant perform "Ramble On" on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Robert Plant aptly reprised his Led Zeppelin classic "Ramble On" for his final appearance on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert. 

Robert Plant selects his fave Nonesuch records and talks about 'em

Robert Plant paid a visit to the Nonesuch Music Library to talk about a few of the records he found inspiring. 

Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant – a self-described "nerdy collector," constantly exploring new sounds – recently spent some time rooting around the Nonesuch Music Library and pulled a few albums off the shelves he found to be inspiring. Check out his discussion of the records he selected right here. Watch Robert discuss record collecting while on tour with guitar player JD McPherson right here.    

Watch a recent Neba Solo performance below. 

Robert Plant's Saving Grace @ Massey Hall, Monday

Robert Plant recently swung by The Late Show to have a chat with Stephen Colbert about his new band, Wales and yes, Tolkien too.

Get tickets for Robert Plant's Saving Grace show (doors 6:30 pm, show 7:30 pm) from the Massey Hall box office right here. 

Robert Plant vs. Pat Benatar

Back in 1966, Robert Plant cut a version of the Young Rascals' "You Better Run" with which Pat Benatar would have more success.

Robert Plant's Saving Grace plays Toronto's Massey Hall on November 10. Get tickets right here. 

Watch the trailer for "Becoming Led Zeppelin" documentary out in February

Billed as the first authorized Led Zep doc "Becoming Led Zeppelin" hits IMAX theatres Feb 7 and regular cinemas Feb 14. 

Happy 76th Birthday Robert Plant!

Raising a glass to Robert Plant on his 76th birthday with some clips from a recent sit down interview with Dan Rather. 

Happy Birthday Imelda May!

Celebrating Imelda May's birthday with her duet with Robert Plant and a interview with Patrick Kielty for RTE's Late Late Show.

Watch Robert Plant & Alison Krauss tear it up at Wolf Trap

Here's the entire performance of Alison Krauss & Robert Plant at Wolf Trap in Fairfax County, Virginia recently. 

Happy Birthday T Bone Burnett

Celebrating T Bone's birthday with a Robert Plant chat, a session with Andrew Bird and Ethan Coen's Jerry Lee video mixtape. 

Happy Birthday Paul McCartney!

Celebrate Paul's birthday by viewing Anton Corbijn's Squaring The Circle doc on Hipgnosis screening at the Carlton Cinema today at 1:10pm, 3:50pm & 6:50pm. 

Watch Robert Plant sing a jazz version of Led Zep's "Black Dog" in New Orleans

Here's Robert Plant performing an impromptu version of "Black Dog" with help from the amped audience in New Orleans. 

Happy Birthday Robert Plant!

Cheers to Robert Plant on his 74th birthday! Here's Robert reprising some old faves with Buddy Miller and Alison Krauss. 

Robert Plant discusses his childhood and favourite recordings

Led Zep frontman and longtime record collector Robert Plant talks his about early family life and the music that inspired him. 

Watch Robert Plant & Alison Krauss play a home concert

Robert Plant and Alison Krauss played three songs from their new Raise The Roof album in an intimate setting for NPR.

Robert Plant & Alison Krauss vs. Bert Jansch

Robert Plant & Alison Krauss cover Bert Jansch's "It Don't Bother Me" for their new Raise The Roof album out Nov 19th.

Here's the scoop...

On November 19, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss return with their new album Raise The Roof, delivering a fresh, cosmic collision of early blues, country deep cuts, revolutionary folk-rock and lost soul music written by a dozen legends and unsung heroes of the past century. The long-awaited reunion marks the duo’s first record in 14 years, produced by T Bone Burnett, and the track list reflects both deep-rooted influences and recent revelations. 

On It Don’t Bother Me, the final preview of the album, the two artists transform Bert Jansch’s solo acoustic composition into an empowering arrangement led by Alison Krauss, simmering with spectral flourishes of dolceola, marxophone and pedal steel, handclaps and percussion, and interplaying guitars of Marc Ribot and Los Lobos’ David Hidalgo. Listen to Robert and Alison's update of "It Don’t Bother Me" below followed by Bert Jansch's original version from 1965 below.

 

On the inclusion of It Don’t Bother Me on Raise The Roof, Robert Plant says, “I’ve been a big follower of Bert Jansch’s work since I was a teenager, and of that whole Irish, Scottish, English folk style that has a different lilt and different lyrical perspective. I was very keen to bring some of that into the picture.”

 

“One of my favorite parts of this is the songs and songwriters that I had never heard of,” adds Alison Krauss. “Working with Robert, and with T Bone, is always a great education in music history.”

 

It Don’t Bother Me arrives on the heels of Raise The Roof’s lead single, Can’t Let Go, which just spent 10 consecutive weeks at #1 on the Americana radio charts, as well as the album’s sole original song, High and Lonesome, penned by Robert Plant and T Bone Burnett. 

 

Following the monumental debut of 2007’s platinum-certified Raising Sand, which won all six GRAMMY Awards for which it was nominated (including Album and Record of the Year), Robert Plant and Alison Krauss “are still proof that sometimes the best things come from unlikely collaborators” (Entertainment Weekly). Across Raise The Roof, the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer and 27x GRAMMY-winning Bluegrass Hall of Famer step further outside their comfort zone, expanding their unexpected, unparalleled partnership in remarkable new directions. 

 

While sessions for the album began in Nashville in November 2019, wrapping just weeks before the world went into lockdown, Krauss remembers sending Plant the Randy Weeks/Lucinda Williams classic, Can’t Let Go, at least 10 years ago - and “it seems like time hasn’t passed at all” (NPR Music). Elsewhere on Raise The Roof, Plant and Krauss reimagine songs from Merle Haggard, Allen Toussaint, The Everly Brothers, Anne Briggs, Geeshie Wiley, Ola Belle Reed, Brenda Burns and more, with arrangements even more evocative and hypnotic than those on Raising Sand.

Pre-order Raise The Roof right here. Listen to both versions of  "It Don't Bother Me" below. 

 

 

Robert Plant talks lockdown, Charley Patton, Morning Dew & Digging Deep

Listen to an interview with Robert Plant followed by two enlightening episodes of his ace Digging Deep podcast.

Midweek Mixdown: Martin Belmont's Guest List

Sit back for two hours with guitarist Martin Belmont (of Ducks Deluxe & The Rumour) playing a typically well-chosen set of tunes on The Guest List #29. 

Robert Plant's Saving Grace vs. Low

Longtime Low fan Robert Plant decided to work up a version of "Everybody's Song" with his new band Saving Grace on tour in May.  

Saving Grace on tour
May 12 - Minneapolis, MN @ Pantages Theatre
May 13 - Milwaukee, WI @ Turner Hall Ballroom
May 15 - Chicago, IL @ Old Town School of Folk Music
May 17 - Charleston, WV @ West Virginia, Mountain Stage at The Clay Center
May 19 - Port Chester, NY @ New York, Capitol Theatre
May 20 - New York, NY @ The Town Hall
May 23 - Washington, DC @ Lincoln Theatre

Happy 70th Birthday Robert Plant!

Believe it or not, Robert Plant turns 70 today... here's a clip of our man listening back to the first record he owned.