Blues, folk, desert music and psychedelia: the splendid album of a seventy -seven -year -old who does not live in the past
He said it clearly and round in more than one departure: “Led Zeppelin are a dress that is no longer on me“And not from today, to demonstrate it there is all his solo career injured shortly after in order to the legendary band in 1980.
Robert Plantunlike many others who started playing between the end of the sixties and the beginning of the seventies He chose not to take the past behind the past as a boulder, not to seem a pathetic nostalgic Of the good times gone that in the middle of the third age sings of sex and Vikings as if the weather had stopped.
The last chapter of this splendid emancipation from the myth is called Saving Grace, A beautiful disk of reinterpretation of traditional songs and covers. “A book of lost and found songs” explains Plant about his new project that has taken shape in the County of Wales at the time of Lockdown. And precisely in the English countryside Plant has tied herself a double thread with this heterogeneous group of musicians: the singer Suzi Dian, the drummer Oli Jefferson, the guitarist Tony Kelsey, the Banjo player and Archi Matt Worley, the cellist Barney Morse-Brows.
Recorded between April 2019 and January 2025 in the Cotswolds and on the borders of Wales, Saving Grace ‘gives new lymph to a timeless collection of music Created by Memphis Minnie, The Low, Bob Mosley (Moby Grape), Blind Willie Johnson, Martha Scanlan, Sarah Siskind.
The result is a splendid disco in balance between folk, blues, desert music and psychedelia (See the excellent remake of Everybody’s Song of Low Americans, Bob Dylan’s fellow citizens in that of Duluth, Minnesota). The six -minute crescendo of AS I Roved Out, the Bucolic Gospel with dark colors, Gospel Plough and the chevrolet desert bluesa reinterpretation of a 1930 song by Memphis Minnie and Kansas Joe McCoy, authors of the engraver of the Led Zeppelin classic When the levee breaks in 1929.
