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:

Plant calls Saving Grace “a song book of the lost and found." 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 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. You can get it and hear it here.

Robert Plant and Saving Grace—vocalist Suzi Dian, drummer Oli Jefferson, guitarist Tony Kelsey, banjo and string player Matt Worley, cellist Barney Morse-Brown—are on tour in the United States and Canada, performing at the Paramount in Brooklyn tonight, followed by shows in Boston, Port Chester, Toronto, Chicago, Denver, Seattle, Vancouver, Oakland, Los Angeles, and Valley Center, before returning to the UK to tour in December. For all the details, visit nonesuch.com/on-tour.