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Robet Plant: Band of Joy

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Label: Decca Records
Released: 2010.09.13
Time:
 47:32
Category: Folk Rock
Producer(s): Robert Plant, Buddy Miller
Rating:
Media type: CD
Web address: www.robertplant.com
Appears with: Led Zeppelin
Purchase date: 2012
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] Angel Dance (David Hidalgo, Louie Perez) - 3:50
[2] House of Cards (Richard Thompson) - 3:14
[3] Central Two-O-Nine (Robert Plant, Buddy Miller) - 2:49
[4] Silver Rider (Zachary Micheletti, Mimi Parker, Alan Sparhawk) - 6:06
[5] You Can't Buy My Love (Billy Babineaux, Bobby Babineaux) - 3:11
[6] Falling in Love Again (Dillard Crume, Andrew Kelly) - 3:38
[7] The Only Sound That Matters (Gregory Vanderpool) - 3:45
[8] Monkey (Micheletti, Parker, Sparhawk) - 4:58
[9] Cindy, I'll Marry You Someday (Traditional, arranged by Plant, Miller) - 3:37
[10] Harm's Swift Way (Townes Van Zandt) - 4:19
[11] Satan Your Kingdom Must Come Down (Traditional, arranged by Plant, Miller) - 4:12
[12] Even This Shall Pass Away (Theodore Tilton, arranged by Plant, Miller) - 4:03

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Robert Plant - Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals on [1,2,3,5,11], Arranger, Producer, Sleeve Design

Marco Giovino - Drums, Percussion, Backing Vocals on [3]
Byron House - Bass Guitar, Double Bass
Buddy Miller - Electric Guitar, Baritone Guitar, 6-String Bass Guitar, Mandoguitar, Backing Vocals on [2,3,6]
Darrell Scott - Acoustic Guitar, Mandolin, Octave Mandolin, Banjos, Accordion, Pedal Steel Guitar & Lap Steel Guitar, Backing Vocals on [1,2,3,4,6,7,10,11]
Bekka Bramlett - Backing Vocals on [1,2]
Patty Griffin - Vocals, Backing Vocals on [2,3,4,5,8,10,11]

Mike Poole - Editing, Engineer, Mixing, Reconstruction
Gordon Hammond - Assistant Engineer
Jim DeMain - Mastering
Alex McCollough - Assistant
Tim Mitchell - Assistant
Ted Wheeler - Studio Assistant
Richard Evans - Assembly
Michael Wilson - Photography

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Band of Joy was the name of Robert Plant’s Black Country psychedelic folk group of the late ‘60s and his revival of its name and spirit in 2010 is of no small significance. Certainly, it’s an explicit suggestion that Plant is getting back to his roots, which is true to an extent: the original Band of Joy was unrecorded outside of a handful of demos, so there is no indication of whether this 2010 incarnation sounds anything at all like the ‘60s band but the communal vibe that pulsates throughout this album hearkens back to the age of hippies as much as it is an outgrowth of Raising Sand, Plant’s striking duet album with Alison Krauss. Such blurred borders are commonplace on Band of Joy, where American and English folk meld, where the secular and sacred walk hand in hand, where the past is not past and the present is not rootless. Assisted by co-producer Buddy Miller and a band of roots iconoclasts highlighted by harmonist Patty Griffin, Plant finds fiercely original music within other people’s songs, nabbing two songs from slow-core stalwarts Low, cherry-picking relative obscurities from Richard & Linda Thompson and Los Lobos, digging back to find forgotten songs from the heyday of honky tonk and traditional folk tunes not often sung. Some of these songs feel like they’ve been around forever and some feel fresh, but not in conventional ways: Low’s “Silver Rider” and “Monkey” feel like ancient, unearthed backwoods laments and the riotous “You Can’t Buy My Love” feels as if it was written yesterday. Much of the wonder of Band of Joy lies in these inventive interpretations but the magic lies in the performances themselves. Never as austere as the clean, tasteful impressionism of Raising Sand, Band of Joy is bold and messy, teeming with life to its very core. It’s as a joyous a record as you’ll ever hear, a testament that the power of music lies not in its writing but in its performance.

Stephen Thomas Erlewine - All Music Guide



Band of Joy, called a "timeless plunge into authentic Americana," is due for release on September 13 (14 in the US), according to a June 14 announcement on the Led Zeppelin frontman's website. The album will be Plant's first since 2007's six-time Grammy-winner
Raising Sand with bluegrass singer Alison Krauss.

Recorded in Nashville, Band of Joy was co-produced by Plant and legendary Nashville guitarist Buddy Miller. "Buddy's zone is beautiful," said Plant in a statement, "with a lot of reflections going back into mid-fifties rockabilly, the singing fishermen and all the great country stuff, along with the soul and R&B from Memphis."

Tracks on the album will include renditions of Los Lobos's "Angel Dance," Low's "Silver Rider" and "Monkey," The Kelly Brothers' "Falling In Love Again," the traditional "Satan Your Kingdom Must Come Down," English/Appalachian folk ballad"Cindy, I'll Marry You Some Day," and blues-y "Central Two-0-Nine."

Along with Miller, the musicians behind Band of Joy - which is also the name of the band with which Plant and drummer John Bonham played before joining Led Zeppelin - include multi-instrumentalist Darrell Scott, country singer-songwriter Patty Griffin, bassist Byron House, and percussionist Marco Giovino.

In March, Plant announced a 12-city North American tour in support of Band of Joy. That tour leg begins in Memphis on July 13 and will feature songs from the forthcoming album.

© independent.co.uk



Robert Plant's 2007 album with pop-bluegrass songbird Alison Krauss, Raising Sand, did something 25 years of solo records never quite managed: It fully transformed him from former Led Zeppelin golden god into a roots singer. Plant had never sung so tenderly or collaboratively, commanding a crack modern string band that defined power in terms other than Physical Graffiti.

Band of Joy — named after Plant's first band with late pal John Bonham — smartly takes some cues from Raising Sand. Plant uses an A list of country voices and players (Patty Griffin, Buddy Miller) and an inspired mix of vintage and modern songs. If it's not quite as seamless and sublime a record, well, it's pretty damn good, and what it lacks in coherence it makes up for in magnified rock & roll mojo.

Miller helps with the latter. The journeyman guitarist-songwriter (and former Emmylou Harris collaborator) co-produced the record with Plant, and he contributes muscular playing and singing. His guitar is low and nasty on the lead cut, a coiled, mandolin-dusted cover of Los Lobos' "Angel Dance." And he opens up on "House of Cards," a cover of Richard Thompson's scalding 1978 folk rocker, bright leads carving the air while Plant and Griffin's harmonies recall Zep's "The Battle of Evermore."

But what's most striking is Plant's vocal versatility. As a solo act, his songwriting has been spotty, if impressively versatile. But he's proved himself to be an excellent interpreter, from his 1984 Honeydrippers EP of old-school R&B and pop through Raising Sand. He does the same here, and the songs give him plenty to work with. He returns to the late, great Townes Van Zandt (whose "Nothin' " was a highlight on Sand) for the bleak "Harm's Swift Way," working a metaphor that turns the idea of time into a woman beyond a man's control. Plant doesn't oversing a whit, delivering poetic meditations on mortality with Griffin's harmonies clinging to him like a spangled death shroud.

The two most striking songs are the most left-field, both penned by the brooding husband-wife indie-rock band Low. "Silver Rider" is a glittering dirge, another showcase for Griffin, who's such a good songwriter that's it's easy to forget what a great singer she is. Plant sings "Monkey" almost as a whisper. "It's a suicide/Shut up and drive," he snarls, in what sounds like the opening scene of a David Lynch film. It's as menacingly restrained as anything he's ever uttered.

This is a record primarily about loss and time's march, and Plant sings with gravity, working his middle range. It doesn't all click. "Even This Shall Pass Away" tries too hard for profundity. And the old spiritual "Satan Your Kingdom Must Come Down" mostly makes you want to hear Plant back cruising Lucifer's daughter on "Houses of the Holy."

But Plant isn't singing like the old days. The closest he comes is "You Can't Buy My Love," first recorded in 1965 by R&B singer Barbara Lynn. Plant knocks it out playfully, like a lost demo from Led Zeppelin I, with a few hollers and sexy woo-oh-ohs. And in 3:10, it's over. You can't buy his love, and you can't turn back time. It's a notion other rock vets could do well to ponder.

Will Hermes - September 14, 2010
RollingStone.com



Band of Joy is English rock singer Robert Plant's ninth solo album and the first with his new band, the Band of Joy. It was released on 13 September 2010 in the UK and 14 September in the USA. In addition to the song "Satan, Your Kingdom Must Come Down", which is the opening theme for the now-concluded Starz television series Boss, the credits of BBC 1's Luther for an episode aired on 16 July 2013 and the season two finale of the Syfy series Defiance, the album is particularly notable for the song "Monkey", originally of the band Low, which is slowed-down to a grinding, spooky Gothic Rock tempo and mood that is vastly different from Low's version. It is arguably the least similar to other tracks on the album (except for Satan), which for the most part carry folk rock or progressive rock moods. This version of "Monkey" also may be the first Gothic Rock track Robert Plant has ever recorded, and although it is not a staple at Plant's live performances, there have been instances where he has performed it.

The album debuted at #5 on the Billboard 200 chart and at #3 on the UK Albums Chart. The first single released from the album was "Angel Dance". Reaction to the album has been positive. Metacritic, by incorporating a number of respected critical reviews, gives the album an aggregate score of 80 out of 100, a "generally favorable review" by the site. Rolling Stone, in particular, gave the album three and a half stars and ranked it #8 on its list of the 30 Best Albums of 2010. Q Magazine in its January 2011 edition ranked Band of Joy as the second best album of 2010, stating that, "[f]ree from having to imitate his 20-year-old self in Zeppelin, the sexagenarian sings to his strengths here, with Miller and Griffin his not-so secret weapons on an album that pinwheels between gentlemanly country-blues (Cindy, I'll Marry You Some Day), spooky lo-fi (Silver Rider) and charming '60s pop (You Can't Buy My Love)."

The album was nominated for two Grammy Awards, including Best Americana Album and the song "Silver Rider" for Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance. Frontman and vocalist Robert Plant was nominated for best British Male Solo Artist at the Brit Awards 2011.

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