ROBERT PLANT: 'Band Of Joy' 10-Minute EPK Available
July 28, 2010A 10-minute EPK (Electronic Press Kit) for legendary LED ZEPPELIN singer Robert Plant's latest Americana-styled album, "Band of Joy", can be viewed below.
Plant played his first show with BAND OF JOY — a new version of his pre-LED ZEPPELIN group which also featured the late John Bonham — on July 13 at the Orpheum Theatre in Memphis, Tennessee.
The new lineup of BAND OF JOY includes: Patty Griffin on vocals; Darrell Scott on multiple instruments and vocals; Byron House on bass and vocals; Marco Giovino on drums, percussion and vocals; and co-producer Buddy Miller on guitar and vocals.
"Band of Joy" is scheduled for release on September 13. His first release since recording the six-time Grammy-winning bluegrass album "Raising Sand" with collaborator Alison Krauss in 2007, the "Band of Joy" CD enlists the help of an array of U.S. musicians, all of whom are performing with Plant on tour.
Plant previewed the album at a low-key gig in New York at the end of last month, and amongst the 12 tracks are covers of a rare TOWNES VAN ZANDT track "Harm's Swift Way", as well as two tracks — "Silver Rider" and "Monkey" — from indie band LOW, both from their 2005 album "The Great Destroyer".
Plant says on his web site of "Band of Joy" that "It's been a blast working on these new songs ... and I'm enjoying such creativity and vitality. 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."
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