Robert Plant will release his first album since 2021’s Alison Krauss collaboration, “Raise the Roof”.
“Saving Grace” marks Plant’s first solo album since 2017’s “Carry Fire”. The nine-song LP, recorded with his new band Saving Grace, features covers of songs by Moby Grape (“It’s a Beautiful Day Today”), Blind Willie Johnson (“Soul of a Man”) and the Low Anthem (“Ticket Taker”).
You can hear their cover of the Minnesota indie-rock band Low’s “Everybody’s Song” Written by Mimi Parker, Zak Micheletti, Alan Sparhawk below. Plant had previously covered a pair of Low songs, “Silver Rider” and “Monkey,” on 2010’s “Band of Joy” album.
Plant said “We laugh a lot, really,” he said in a press release announcing the album. “I think that suits me. I like laughing. You know, I can’t find any reason to be too serious about anything. I’m not jaded. The sweetness of the whole thing …The upcoming album, will be Robert Plant’s 12th solo record, is named after the band he has performed with over the past six years: singer Suzi Dian, drummer Oli Jefferson, guitarist Tony Kelsey, banjo and string player Matt Worley, and cellist Barney Morse-Brown.
Robert Plant and Saving Grace perform Low’s “Everybody’s Song,” from the upcoming album, ‘Saving Grace,’ due September 26th on Nonesuch Records.
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