Robert Plant was on The Late Show to talk with host Stephen Colbert about coming together with the new band of distinguished players to create Saving Grace and their new album, Saving Grace. The conversation then turns to Tolkien and talk of life in the West Midlands. You can watch it here.

Robert Plant and Saving Grace were on BBC Two's Later... with Jools Holland to perform from their new album, Saving Grace. They performed Low's "Everybody's Song" and Martha Scanlan's "Higher Rock" from the album. You can watch both here.

Robert Plant's Saving Grace, his first album with a new band of distinguished players, what he calls “a song book of the lost and found," is out now. Its genesis was during lockdown, when Plant’s customary wandering was all but forbidden. It was in the English countryside that he connected closely to this diverse group of musicians—vocalist Suzi Dian, drummer Oli Jefferson, guitarist Tony Kelsey, banjo and string player Matt Worley, cellist Barney Morse-Brown—who had a shared lean towards his corners of evocative song. Produced by Plant and the band and recorded over six years in the Cotswolds and on the Welsh Borders, Saving Grace features songs by Memphis Minnie, Bob Mosley (Moby Grape), Blind Willie Johnson, The Low Anthem, Martha Scanlan, Sarah Siskind, and Low.

“I fell upon these people bit by bit, and also the songs which I could bring back, this arsenal of incredible pieces from all sorts of corners of time," Robert Plant says on BBC Radio 4's Front Row in a conversation with presenter Samira Ahmed about his new album, Saving Grace, out next week, and the band of distinguished players with whom he made it. You can hear the episode here.

Robert Plant and the group of distinguished musicians with whom he made the album Saving Grace, will tour the UK in December, with shows in Portsmouth, Eastbourne, London, Birmingham, Manchester, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Middlesbrough, Newcastle, and York. Early access to tickets for pre-orders of the album from the official UK store begin this Monday.

Big Ears Festival has announced the lineup for its 2026 edition, taking place in venues throughout downtown Knoxville, Tennessee, March 26–29, 2026, including Laurie Anderson, Mary Halvorson, Robert Plant, Cécile McLorin Salvant, and Caroline Shaw and Sō Percussion with Ringdown.

Robert Plant and Saving Grace have released “Chevrolet,” the opening track to their upcoming album, Saving Grace. It's a rendition of Donovan’s 1965 “Hey Gyp (Dig the Slowness),” which itself is an adaptation of Ed and Lonnie Young’s take on Memphis Minnie and Kansas Joe McCoy’s 1930 Delta blues classic, “Can I Do It for You.” You can watch the official video by Manu Viqueira here.

Robert Plant has released "Gospel Plough," a new single from Saving Grace, an album and a band six years in the making, due September 26. With “Gospel Plough,” they transform a centuries-old spiritual number into a hypnotic mélange of vocals, steel banjo, acoustic guitar, and percussion. Supporting Plant and Saving Grace on their first US tour this fall will be Rosie Flores, including at the just-announced show at Harrah’s Resort SoCal on November 23.

Robert Plant's Saving Grace, his first album with a new band of distinguished players, is due September 26 on Nonesuch. Its genesis was during lockdown, when Plant’s customary wandering was all but forbidden. It was in the English countryside that he connected closely to this diverse group of musicians—vocalist Suzi Dian, drummer Oli Jefferson, guitarist Tony Kelsey, banjo and string player Matt Worley, cellist Barney Morse-Brown. Produced by Plant and the band and recorded over six years in the Cotswolds and on the Welsh Borders, Saving Grace features songs by Memphis Minnie, Bob Mosley (Moby Grape), Blind Willie Johnson, The Low Anthem, Martha Scanlan, Sarah Siskind, and Low. Their take on the Low tune "Everybody’s Song" is out now, along with a video you can watch here. Robert Plant and Saving Grace will launch their debut US tour this fall, with an initial run of a dozen North American shows announced today.

Robert Plant's Digging Deep podcast has returned for its fourth season. He and co-host Matt Everitt pick up their conversation on the season opener with "Bluebirds Over the Mountain," a song written and recorded by Ersel Hickey in 1958 and made a hit by Ritchie Valens that same year. Plant recorded a version for his 2017 Nonesuch album, Carry Fire, with guest vocalist Chrissie Hynde. You can hear the podcast episode and watch the video for Plant's take on the song here.

The latest episode of Robert Plant's new podcast series, Digging Deep, digs deep into the title track from his latest album, Carry Fire. "The way that we've been constructing music for the last couple of albums with the Space Shifters has been pretty modular," he says. "Each guy in our cooperative creates ideas and sends them to me or to each other and they go up to the misty mountains ... There's a lot of sketches, some of them are black-and-white, some of them are going into color and that's how all these songs are developed." You can listen to the episode and watch a live performance of "Carry Fire" here.

The line-up for Hardly Strictly Bluegrass has been announced, and among the performers are several artists familiar to readers of the Nonesuch Journal: Emmylou Harris, Kronos Quartet, Robert Plant, Punch Brothers, Chris Thile, and Yola. The free, annual outdoor music festival returns for the nineteenth year to San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, October 4–6, 2019. You can hear songs from all these artists in a playlist here.