Robert Plant has announced the release of his next solo album, which will feature him and his new group, Saving Grace, performing a collection of century-old music.
Likewise titled Saving Grace, the album is a treasury of songs from the past originally recorded by others. They include cuts made popular by legends like blues singer/guitarist Memphis Minnie, and gospel blues singer/acoustic guitarist Blind Willie Johnson.
But there are also newer songs first recorded by performers such as Moby Grape’s Bob Mosley, indie-folk act the Low Anthem, singer-songwriter Martha Scanlan, folk-rock artist Sarah Siskind, and Mimi Parker and Alan Sparhawk’s dream-pop band Low.
Plant calls Saving Grace — which arrives September 26 on Nonesuch Records — “a song book of the lost and found.”
You can hear Robert Plant and Saving Grace’s reimagined rendition of Low’s “Everybody’s Song,” which comes out today.
The genesis for Saving Grace was lockdown, when Plant connected with a diverse band of musicians in the English countryside who share his love of evocative song. The performers — vocalist Suzi Dian, drummer Oli Jefferson, guitarist Tony Kelsey, banjo and string player Matt Worley, and cellist Barney Morse-Brown — have spent the past six years developing the band's wide-ranging styles and personalities.
Through it all, Plant says, there has been a focus on joy and abandon.
“We laugh a lot, really. I think that suits me. I like laughing,” the singer says. “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.”
Sharp-eyed music hounds will note this is not the first time Plant has worked his magic on tunes by Memphis Minnie and Blind Willie Johnson. The singer covered Minnie’s “When the Levee Breaks” and Johnson’s “In My Time of Dying” and “It’s Nobody’s Fault But Mine” while in Led Zeppelin.
Plant’s last album was Raise the Roof, his multiple Grammy–nominated 2021 reunion with Alison Krauss.
Saving Grace was recorded between April 2019 and January 2025 in the Cotswolds and on the Welsh Borders. It follows on Plant’s previous Nonesuch releases 2014’s lullaby and… The Ceaseless Roar and 2017’s Carry Fire.
The release of Saving Grace will be accompanied by a fall tour that will mark the group’s first appearance in the U.S. and include an initial run of a dozen North American shows. See below for the full list of dates and visit robertplant.com/timetable for tickets.
Saving Grace is available for pre-order.
Robert Plant & Saving Grace Tour Dates
July 17 - Vienne, FR - Théâtre Antique
July 19 - Salon-de-Provence, FR - Château de l'Empéri
July 21 - Marciac, FR - Jazz in Marciac
July 23 - Carcassonne, FR - Festival de Carcassonne - Theatre Jean Deschamps
July 26 - Granada, ES - Palacio De Congresos De Granada
July 28 - Valencia, ES - Palau de les Arts
July 30 - Barcelona, ES - Teatro Liceo - Milleni Concert Series
October 30 - Wheeling, WV - Capitol Theatre Wheeling
November 2 - Charlottesville, VA - The Paramount Theater of Charlottesville
November 3 - Washington, DC - Lincoln Theatre
November 5 - Brooklyn, NY - Brooklyn Paramount
November 6 - Boston, MA - Boch Center Shubert Theatre
November 8 - Port Chester, NY - Capitol Theatre
November 10 - Toronto, ON - Massey Hall
November 12 - Chicago, IL - The Vic
November 13 - Chicago, IL - Old Town School of Folk Music
November 15 - Denver, CO - Ellie Caulkins Opera House
November 18 - Seattle, WA - The Moore Theatre
November 19 - Vancouver, BC - Vogue Theatre
November 21 - Oakland, CA - The Fox
November 22 - Los Angeles, CA - United Theater on Broadway
