ROBERT PLANT On BAND OF JOY Tour: 'Even The Old Songs Are Brand New'

July 20, 2010

Robert 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.

"Even the old songs are brand-new," Plant told the Canadian Press in a new interview. "There's nothing being reproduced that's ever been heard the way it's being played now ... it's all different. So we've got a hotbed of about 22 songs, which will grow and grow. And you know, it's just yet another opportunity for me to extend the manacles that are around my ankles, to get further and further out into the world of beautiful music."

"When you're working with Robert, you can only rehearse so much and then it doesn't matter anymore because you have to have your eyes glued on him the entire night," guitarist Buddy Miller said in an interview with his tour bandmate, singer-songwriter and guitarist Patty Griffin. "No matter what the arrangement was, he's just all feel."

"It's all spontaneous," Griffin said.

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