The roots of Robert Plant’s most recent roots project and music collective go back to his own geographically. This casual cover song collection has been created in the English-Welsh borderland over the past seven years, which the LED Zeppelin singer lovingly refers to as its floodplain. Banjo and string instruments form the finer instrumental brush strokes in the economical, pucking and sometimes plowing arrangements, while the former rock god continues to maintain its folk-gentleman patina.
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In Suzi Dian, the wife of percussionist Oli Jefferson, after Alison Krauss, he once again laughed at a first-class female co-voice, which is also able to wear the great “Too Far From You” alone. The song composed by Sarah Siskind, which was already heard in the Country TV series Schmonzette “Nashville”, then also defines a fundamental principle of success of this album: It is not the historical-all of the beautiful-traditional-traditional or secure song treasures by Moby Grape, Memphis Minnon or Blind Willie Johnson, but most of them, but Contemporary compositions.
If, for example, the low anthem’s bitter sweet “Ticket Taker” in the Simon-&-Gar radio mood lights or Lows noisige’s “Everybody’s Song” becomes a veritable barn stamping, Plant Plant with Saving Grace (including the name of his accompanying band).
This review first appeared in the MusikExpress 10/2025.