Led Zeppelin’s Golden GodROBERT PLANT (aged 77 now) returns, with a new album of mystical roots maneuvers named Saving Grace, after his touring band for six years now. He regales MOJO with classic tales and forthright views as they riffle through his record collection and compiles a free killer CD, titled Higher Rock, for the readers.
CHEVROLET Lead single from Plant’s new LP Out on September 26th
Also in the issue: Ozzy Osbourne – the inside story; Joni Mitchell’s incredible 1975; Spinal Tap’s second wind; Willie Nelson – Red Headed Stranger; Michael Kiwanuka gets unreasonable. Plus: Gary Numan; Van Morrison; The Police; Mike Taylor; Baxter Dury; Andrew Watt; Big Thief; Lucinda Williams; Swell Maps; Woody Guthrie; Springsteen; and Communist jazz!
You can purchase a copy and let it be sent to your home. Info HERE.
Plant has a collaborative LP with songstress/accordionist Suzi Dian; a member
of his tour band (for the past 6 years), titled Saving Grace. It’s called after the band.
More info here.
In order to not miss a beat TURN UP THE VOLUME scans the musical
horizon daily, for 10 years now, to pick ace tracks and add 5 new ones
twice per week, to the one and only JUKEBOX playlist that matters.
ALL TOGETHER
The 5 fresh ones TRACK BY TRACK
Photo by Sandra Ebert
Artists: STILL BLANK Who: New transatlantic guitar pop duo — Jordy is
from Kaua’i,Hawaii while Ben is from Manchester, UK.
Artist: DAVID BYRNE Who: The former talking head
and psycho killer.
Track: SHE EXPLAINS THINGS TO ME
New piece from his 9th solo album (that’s already one more than
with Talking Heads), named Who Is The Sly?. It’ll see the day of
light on September 5th.
Led Zep hero ROBERT PLANT and American bluegrass-country and fiddler artist ALISON KRAUSS worked together for the first time on their collaborative album Raisng Sand from 2007. Three years ago they released a 2nd one, titled Raise The Roof.
They toured in between and are right now playing shows again in Northern America.
For the occasion, they recorded a live version of WHEN THE LEVEE BREAKS, which
is part of their live set from 2007 on.
It was covered multiple times afterward, and it was actually Led Zeppelin who
made the song famous with their 1971 cover that was part of Led Zeppelin IV.
UNCUT Magazine celebrates the 40 solo years of Led Zeppelin icon ROBERT PLANT with an Ultimate Music Guide Issue featuring reviews in-depth of all his solo albums, interviews, and his thoughts on Led Zep with whom he played (only) 12 years (1968-1980).
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Artists: ROBERT PLANT and ALISON KRAUSS Who: Former Led Zeppelin frontman & American bluegrass songstress.
They worked together before on 2007 album ‘Raising The Sand’
NEW ALBUM: RAISE THE ROOF Out: 19 November 2021 via Warner Music.
Robert Plant (in an interview with Mojo): “The good thing with Alison and
I is that we’re a couple of kindred spirits. Most musicians form a band, then
they stay in the band until it’s over – 20 years, 30 years, 50 years, whatever it
is, and it starts to look really decrepit. With us, there’s nothing written in blood.
We were ready to do something new, and we knew how good it was before, so
we can just join up again and see where we go. We’ve got nothing to lose.”
Info: A compilation album with the songs assembled as a companion to his
series ‘Digging Deep With Robert Plant Podcast‘ exploring the composition
and recording of hits, album tracks, and previously unreleased songs throughout
his solo career.
Robert Plant: “It’s certainly not a ‘best of’. The songs have been lying side-by-side with their old comrades for 20 years, 30 years. How are they going to feel when they come face-to-face with something 20 years younger? Putting something from 1982 with a song from 2006, or putting a Band of Joy track next to an enlarged emotional moment from Rockfield Studios, from that to Peter Gabriel’s place. All very different crew members, different participants… and so then it all takes on a whole different personality when t’s a new bedfellow lying on each side of it. So, the context is crazy. It’s a mind bomb, really. And sometimes it’s like a real curve. As is the journey.” Full Spin interview here.
One huge track is missing in this compilation. Plant‘s magical cover of Tim Buckley breathtaking
beauty Song To The Siren (1970)…
