ROBERT PLANT - BAND OF JOY (2LP)

Robert Plant Band Of Joy on 2LP Set

Plant Follows Up 2007's Grammy-Winning Raising Sand with an Even More Engaging Roots Psychedelia Affair

Incredible Band Features Buddy Miller, Darrell Scott & Guest Appearances by Patty Griffin

Exploring the similar roots and psychedelic elements he did on 2007's six-time Grammy-winning Raising Sand, his collaboration with Alison Krauss, Robert Plant returns with the even more engaging and curious Band of Joy. Recorded in Nashville with a stellar cast of musicians, the scintillating album of covers and originals was co-produced by Plant and former Emmylou Harris lead guitarist Buddy Miller.You don't want to miss this one, replete with incredible atmospherics and textures that come to life in astounding 3D fashion on this analog pressing.

Everything about Band of Joy connects the past with the present. In 1967, Plant had also formed a group called the Band of Joy, with drummer John Bonham. The rest is history, as Bonham, Plant, guitarist Jimmy Page, and bassist John Paul Jones assembled to become The New Yardbirds and, ultimately, Led Zeppelin. Since that time, Plant has put his wide-ranging musical fascination to good use on solo albums and in recordings with bands like The Honeydrippers, Priory of Brion, and Strange Sensation. His performances have reflected his embrace of West Coast psychedelic rock, roots blues, African music, and traditional folk. Plant continued to expand his horizons with 2007’s Raising Sand, a collaboration with Krauss.

Why give the new album the name of one of his earliest bands? “In the Band of Joy, when I was seventeen, I was playing everybody else’s stuff and moving it around, and it’s kind of…time to reinvoke that attitude and sentiment,” he says. Plant’s overwhelming impulse was to make the music his own. “I wanted to bring my personality to other people’s songs and kick the door open a little bit…or edge it open with my hips. I mean…basically I sing the way I sing and to attack those songs in that particular way, I can only do them Plant-like, so I was thinking about Zeppelin III, I was thinking about the mixture of acoustic and powerful electric.”



As such, the band: Darrell Scott (acoustic guitar, mandolin, octave mandolin, banjo, accordion, pedal steel and lap steel guitar), Byron House (bass), Marco Giovino (drums and percussion), and Miller (electric guitar, baritone, 6-string bass, mandoguitar), supply the singer with everything he needs, providing irresistible grooves, arresting tones, and what can only be called the roots music of our future.

"Co-producing with Miller, Plant washes the 12-song set in rich, salty baths of texture, timbre, tone, and atmosphere. Sonics, feel, and space play as much a part of the experience as the arrangements. …The psychedelia-treated roots material here is more thrilling than the cosmic country and gypsy soul that peppered 2007’s Raising Sand."
- Bob Gendron, TONE Audio, September 10, 2010

"Like his acclaimed 2007 collaboration with Alison Krauss, “Raising Sand,” the new album aims for an eerily atmospheric vibe as it investigates a broad range of music, taking on blues via Lightnin’ Hopkins, bluegrass from Bascom Lamar Lunsford, ‘60s soul, and relatively recent tunes from Los Lobos, Low and Texas band Milton Mapes. ….Plant is once again low-key, his voice snaking through the songs, while Griffin shadows him like a ghost and Miller’s guitar hovers with storm-cloud menace."
- Greg Kot, Chicago Tribune, September 13, 2010

Robert Plant Band Of Joy Track Listing

1.  Angel Dance
2.  House of Cards
3.  Central Two-O-Nine
4.  Silver Rider
5.  You Can't Buy My Love
6.  I'm Falling In Love Again
7.  The Only Sound That Matters
8.  Monkey
9.  Cindy I'll Marry You Someday
10. Harm's Swift Way
11. Satan, Your Kingdom Must Come Down
12. Even This Shall Pass Away