Robert Plant has announced the 26 September release of Saving Grace, "the first album featuring a new band of distinguished players", which the legendary singer calls "a songbook of the lost and found".
The album on Nonesuch Records sees Plant joined by Saving Grace - vocalist Suzi Dian, drummer Oli Jefferson, guitarist Tony Kelsey, banjo and string player Matt Worley, and cellist Barney Morse-Brown.
Recorded between April 2019 and January 2025 in the Cotswolds and on the Welsh Borders, the album features Plant and co's interpretations of songs by Memphis Minnie, Bob Mosley (Moby Grape), Blind Willie Johnson, The Low Anthem, Martha Scanlan, Sarah Siskind, and Mimi Parker and Alan Sparhawk's Low.
"We laugh a lot, really. I think that suits me. I like laughing," Plant said of his latest adventure.
"You know, I can't find any reason to be too serious about anything. I'm not jaded.
"The sweetness of the whole thing… These are sweet people and they are playing out all the stuff that they could never get out before. They have become unique stylists and together they seem to have landed in a most interesting place."
Saving Grace tracklist:
Chevrolet
As I Roved Out
It's a Beautiful Day Today
Soul of a Man
Ticket Taker
I Never Will Marry
Higher Rock
Too Far from You
Everybody's Song
Gospel Plough
