""I'm an old guy, right? I'm not old, but I'm old," Robert Plant offers up, recollecting a charmed musical life that began in 1960s England in his early teens. "I remember the excitement that came off the radio waves when you knew that somebody was coming to town who you didn't know much about. Maybe Creem magazine didn't like you yet or whatever. The 'unknown' was coming. So you could create your own imagination of how it was gonna pan out.""
""With the Saving Grace tour lineup and album of the same name (the LP credited to "Robert Plant with [singer] Suzi Dian"), Plant's players are a relatively unknown crew of talent and depth. By dint of pandemic pauses and far-flung locales around the U.K.'s Cotswolds and on the Welsh Borders, the lineup managed to quietly ferment and realize some of that long-ago unknown magical mystery.""
""In a dozen songs on "Saving Grace," ranging from "Gospel Plough" (a reworking of the traditional tune recorded by Bob Dylan as "Gospel Plow") to "I Never Will Marry" (popularized by everyone from the Carter Family to Linda Ronstadt) to album opener "Chevrolet" - a version of Donovan's "Hey Gyp (Dig the Slowness)," itself based on a song by Memphis Minnie and Kansas Joe McCoy - songs are lovingly researched, reimagined and dis- and re-assembled.""
Robert Plant assembled a largely unknown ensemble for the Saving Grace album and tour, developed during pandemic pauses across the Cotswolds and Welsh Borders. The record comprises a dozen reworked traditional and obscure songs, from 'Gospel Plough' (a reworking of Bob Dylan's 'Gospel Plow') and 'I Never Will Marry' to an opener, 'Chevrolet,' derived from Donovan's 'Hey Gyp' and earlier blues sources. The songs were researched, reimagined, disassembled and reassembled to create new arrangements. Plant embraced creative freedom after a long career, choosing obscure material and a band with depth to recapture an element of musical discovery.
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