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( 2 stories between 29th March 2010 and 2nd September 2010 )Robert Plant Not Into Heavy Rock
Sep, 2 2010
At venues across the world there’s a select group of frontmen struggling in vain to hold on to their rock-star vitality, even though the years are against them. What keeps the pension-aged rocker performing when he could be relaxing? Perhaps it’s the love of the music that keeps Steven Tyler going and ensures that Iggy Pop continues to launch himself off stages?
Of those who have hung up their heavy rock hats, Led Zeppelin’s former frontman Robert Plant is one of the few to admit that he has done so because the love of the music is gone. Speaking to English newspaper The Independent, Plant explained that a recent visit to a Them Crooked Vultures gig left his ears bleeding. “I feel so far away from heavy rock now… For me, it's no longer to do with vanity, ego, and visible success,” he said. “[Now] it's just about getting down into the earth of music. I spent three, four, five years never playing a Zeppelin song, from 1981 onwards, because I didn't just want to lean on Zeppelin. I've gone from being in that huge band to picking up the pieces of my own gift.”
Plant’s own gift has served him well, having found huge success with Alison Krauss and their brand of country-tinged music, and the next installment of Plant’s maturing musical style can be witnessed with the Americana-flavored release of Band of Joy on September 14.
Plant's Band Of Joy 2.0
Mar, 29 2010
To the annoyance of music database moderators around the world, Robert Plant has formed a new group called Band Of Joy -- having already been in a band called Band Of Joy in the 60s -- with a whole new line-up. Is this a new group, or the same group with a changed line-up?
Before he was asked to join the budding Led Zeppelin, Plant was the lead singer of the blues group Band Of Joy, who enjoyed a little local success in Birmingham, England, in the mid-60s. Then there was the whole hundreds-of-millions of record sales thing, worldwide stadium tours, international fame and acclaim and several timeless rock records with Led Zeppelin; and now he’s doing Band Of Joy again.
But Plant’s new Band Of Joy doesn’t involve anyone from the first group’s line-up. Instead it’s a supergroup of sorts, with members taken from among America’s finest folk and country musicians: Patty Griffin and Darrell Scott contribute songs and singing, Byron House is on bass, Marco Giovino on drums, and Buddy Miller also sings and plays guitar.
"It's been a remarkable change of direction for all of us and as a group we all seem to have developed a new groove” Plant said. An album and tour is expected in late summer or early fall.
