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.
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With the release of a new single, “Gospel Plough,” Robert Plant shares the latest preview of Saving Grace: an album and a band six years in the making, arriving September 26 via Nonesuch Records. Self-described as “a song book for the lost and found,” the 10-track collection sees Plant and a group of distinguished players exploring the evolution of roots music both vintage and modern. They invigorate the sounds of blues, folk, gospel, country and the tantalizing traditions that lay in between. With “Gospel Plough,” they transform a centuries-old spiritual number into a hypnotic mélange of vocals, steel banjo, acoustic guitar, and percussion.
Robert Plant had already received great acclaim for his brilliant, GRAMMY Award-winning foray into American roots music with singer and fiddler Alison Krauss—and alongside Patty Griffin and Buddy Miller, in his 2010 GRAMMY-nominated Band of Joy. But Saving Grace began at home on the Welsh borderlands, drawn together by a shared lean towards his much-loved corners of evocative song. First united in 2019, Plant and this new collective of like-minded collaborators—vocalist Suzi Dian, drummer Oli Jefferson, guitarist Tony Kelsey, banjo and string player Matt Worley, cellist Barney Morse-Brown—had been experimenting for barely a year, even serving as an unheralded opening act on a handful of dates for Fairport Convention, when the pandemic intervened and any formal plans were temporarily shelved.
Once protocols permitted, Robert Plant and Saving Grace began to record informally in a barn setup and sometimes outdoors—with a backdrop of birdsong emerging on the back half of “Gospel Plough”—and then booked themselves in small venues without fanfare. Until now, there were no press releases, only the image of the lone bison used on the cover of the album, which breathes fresh life into a collection of songs by Memphis Minnie, Bob Mosley (Moby Grape), Blind Willie Johnson, The Low Anthem, Martha Scanlan, Sarah Siskind, and Mimi Parker and Alan Sparhawk's Low, as heard on Robert Plant and Saving Grace’s recently released rendition of “Everybody’s Song.”
Having grown into a wide-ranging workshop of styles and personalities, weaving through time and circumstance with joy and abandon, Robert Plant and Saving Grace are preparing to perform for the first time in the US this fall. A tour of more than a dozen North American shows includes NYC's Brooklyn Paramount, Port Chester's Capitol Theatre, Chicago's The Vic, Los Angeles' United Theater and others, with support from Rosie Flores just announced today. The run will now conclude with a newly-added stop at Harrah’s Resort SoCal on November 23. See below for details and tickets or visit nonesuch.com/on-tour.
“It’s an impressive collection of people now. I can’t tell you how lucky I feel about this,” says Robert Plant. “What I am really impressed by is this living, new world of whatever this music is. With this mélange of music, song and voice, anywhere and everywhere is the way to see the road ahead.”
Listen: Robert Plant and Saving Grace Share “Gospel Plough" From Upcoming Album
With the release of a new single, “Gospel Plough,” Robert Plant shares the latest preview of Saving Grace: an album and a band six years in the making, arriving September 26 via Nonesuch Records. Self-described as “a song book for the lost and found,” the 10-track collection sees Plant and a group of distinguished players exploring the evolution of roots music both vintage and modern. They invigorate the sounds of blues, folk, gospel, country and the tantalizing traditions that lay in between. With “Gospel Plough,” they transform a centuries-old spiritual number into a hypnotic mélange of vocals, steel banjo, acoustic guitar, and percussion.
Robert Plant had already received great acclaim for his brilliant, GRAMMY Award-winning foray into American roots music with singer and fiddler Alison Krauss—and alongside Patty Griffin and Buddy Miller, in his 2010 GRAMMY-nominated Band of Joy. But Saving Grace began at home on the Welsh borderlands, drawn together by a shared lean towards his much-loved corners of evocative song. First united in 2019, Plant and this new collective of like-minded collaborators—vocalist Suzi Dian, drummer Oli Jefferson, guitarist Tony Kelsey, banjo and string player Matt Worley, cellist Barney Morse-Brown—had been experimenting for barely a year, even serving as an unheralded opening act on a handful of dates for Fairport Convention, when the pandemic intervened and any formal plans were temporarily shelved.
Once protocols permitted, Robert Plant and Saving Grace began to record informally in a barn setup and sometimes outdoors—with a backdrop of birdsong emerging on the back half of “Gospel Plough”—and then booked themselves in small venues without fanfare. Until now, there were no press releases, only the image of the lone bison used on the cover of the album, which breathes fresh life into a collection of songs by Memphis Minnie, Bob Mosley (Moby Grape), Blind Willie Johnson, The Low Anthem, Martha Scanlan, Sarah Siskind, and Mimi Parker and Alan Sparhawk's Low, as heard on Robert Plant and Saving Grace’s recently released rendition of “Everybody’s Song.”
Having grown into a wide-ranging workshop of styles and personalities, weaving through time and circumstance with joy and abandon, Robert Plant and Saving Grace are preparing to perform for the first time in the US this fall. A tour of more than a dozen North American shows includes NYC's Brooklyn Paramount, Port Chester's Capitol Theatre, Chicago's The Vic, Los Angeles' United Theater and others, with support from Rosie Flores just announced today. The run will now conclude with a newly-added stop at Harrah’s Resort SoCal on November 23. See below for details and tickets or visit nonesuch.com/on-tour.
“It’s an impressive collection of people now. I can’t tell you how lucky I feel about this,” says Robert Plant. “What I am really impressed by is this living, new world of whatever this music is. With this mélange of music, song and voice, anywhere and everywhere is the way to see the road ahead.”
Listen: Robert Plant and Saving Grace Share “Gospel Plough" From Upcoming Album
With the release of a new single, “Gospel Plough,” Robert Plant shares the latest preview of Saving Grace: an album and a band six years in the making, arriving September 26 via Nonesuch Records. Self-described as “a song book for the lost and found,” the 10-track collection sees Plant and a group of distinguished players exploring the evolution of roots music both vintage and modern. They invigorate the sounds of blues, folk, gospel, country and the tantalizing traditions that lay in between. With “Gospel Plough,” they transform a centuries-old spiritual number into a hypnotic mélange of vocals, steel banjo, acoustic guitar, and percussion.
Robert Plant had already received great acclaim for his brilliant, GRAMMY Award-winning foray into American roots music with singer and fiddler Alison Krauss—and alongside Patty Griffin and Buddy Miller, in his 2010 GRAMMY-nominated Band of Joy. But Saving Grace began at home on the Welsh borderlands, drawn together by a shared lean towards his much-loved corners of evocative song. First united in 2019, Plant and this new collective of like-minded collaborators—vocalist Suzi Dian, drummer Oli Jefferson, guitarist Tony Kelsey, banjo and string player Matt Worley, cellist Barney Morse-Brown—had been experimenting for barely a year, even serving as an unheralded opening act on a handful of dates for Fairport Convention, when the pandemic intervened and any formal plans were temporarily shelved.
Once protocols permitted, Robert Plant and Saving Grace began to record informally in a barn setup and sometimes outdoors—with a backdrop of birdsong emerging on the back half of “Gospel Plough”—and then booked themselves in small venues without fanfare. Until now, there were no press releases, only the image of the lone bison used on the cover of the album, which breathes fresh life into a collection of songs by Memphis Minnie, Bob Mosley (Moby Grape), Blind Willie Johnson, The Low Anthem, Martha Scanlan, Sarah Siskind, and Mimi Parker and Alan Sparhawk's Low, as heard on Robert Plant and Saving Grace’s recently released rendition of “Everybody’s Song.”
Having grown into a wide-ranging workshop of styles and personalities, weaving through time and circumstance with joy and abandon, Robert Plant and Saving Grace are preparing to perform for the first time in the US this fall. A tour of more than a dozen North American shows includes NYC's Brooklyn Paramount, Port Chester's Capitol Theatre, Chicago's The Vic, Los Angeles' United Theater and others, with support from Rosie Flores just announced today. The run will now conclude with a newly-added stop at Harrah’s Resort SoCal on November 23. See below for details and tickets or visit nonesuch.com/on-tour.
“It’s an impressive collection of people now. I can’t tell you how lucky I feel about this,” says Robert Plant. “What I am really impressed by is this living, new world of whatever this music is. With this mélange of music, song and voice, anywhere and everywhere is the way to see the road ahead.”
Trumpeter/composer Ambrose Akinmusire and guitarist/composer Mary Halvorson's album Slo-Mo Neon Luminate Hoverings is out now. It features four new compositions by each musician plus one collaboration. The duo, long admirers of each other’s musicianship, began playing together periodically back in 2009. They rehearsed the music on Slo-Mo Neon Luminate Hoverings in January 2025, just before performing it at the NYC club The Stone; they recorded the album the next day at Sear Sound. “I think it’s partly a shared aesthetic and an ease of communication. I feel comfortable to try whatever,” Halvorson says. Akinmusire concurs, “I think it’s rare to find an improviser that all goes and nothing has to go at all. It’s rare to feel like you don’t have to do anything and you can do anything. And that’s what I love about playing with Mary.”
Robert Plant with Saving Grace and Suzi Dian announce Up the Sharp End, September 18–October 15, 2026—a US tour in celebration of their critically acclaimed recent album, Saving Grace. The band, which completed two sold-out US legs last fall and this spring, performs in the Midwest and the West, with stops in Saint Louis, Santa Fe, San Francisco, Minneapolis, and Chicago, among others; special guest Rosie Flores joins. Artist presales begin Wednesday, June 10 at 10am local time, with general sales beginning Friday, June 12 at 10am local time.
