New ROBERT PLANT/Band of Joy Summer Tour Dates
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Haven't heard any of the music yet. But here are confirmed tour dates for ROBERT PLANT and BAND of JOY.
THE SOUTH!
07/13 - Memphis, TN - The Orpheum Theater
07/15 - Little Rock, AR - Robinson Center Music Hall
07/16 - Tulsa, OK - Brady Theater
07/18 - Albuquerque, NM - Sandia Casino Amphitheater
07/20 - Phoenix, AZ - Dodge Theater
07/21 - Tucson, AZ - Anselmo Valencia Amphitheater
07/23 - Dallas, TX - Meyerson Symphony Hall
07/24 - Houston, TX - Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
07/26 - Austin, TX - Stubbs Waller Creek Amphitheater
07/28 - Mobile, AL - The Saenger Theatre
07/30 - Clearwater, FL - Ruth Eckerd Hall
07/31 - Miami, FL - Bayfront Park Amphitheater
THE SOUTH!
07/13 - Memphis, TN - The Orpheum Theater
07/15 - Little Rock, AR - Robinson Center Music Hall
07/16 - Tulsa, OK - Brady Theater
07/18 - Albuquerque, NM - Sandia Casino Amphitheater
07/20 - Phoenix, AZ - Dodge Theater
07/21 - Tucson, AZ - Anselmo Valencia Amphitheater
07/23 - Dallas, TX - Meyerson Symphony Hall
07/24 - Houston, TX - Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
07/26 - Austin, TX - Stubbs Waller Creek Amphitheater
07/28 - Mobile, AL - The Saenger Theatre
07/30 - Clearwater, FL - Ruth Eckerd Hall
07/31 - Miami, FL - Bayfront Park Amphitheater
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ROBERT PLANT AND THE BAND OF JOY TO TOUR U.S.A
26th March 2010
JULY SHOWS TO INCLUDE MATERIAL FROM NEW ROUNDER ALBUM
Burlington, MA – Robert Plant has confirmed a 12 city North American tour. Beginning in July, this 1st leg of shows which will be followed by further dates in the fall will preview material from a new album. Featuring a diverse group of musicians - Patty Griffin, vocals, Darrell Scott, multi instrumentalist/vocals, Byron House, Bass/Vocals, Marco Giovino, drums and percussion/vocals, including co-producer Buddy Miller, guitar/vocals. The album is set for release on Rounder, late summer/early fall.
Kicking off in Memphis on July 13th (see full tour schedule below) the tour will feature Plant and the ’Band of Joy’ - the same musicians who also appear and play on the album.
Says Plant: “It’s been a blast working on these new songs…and I’m enjoying such creativity and vitality. It’s been a remarkable change of direction for all of us and as a group we all seem to have developed a new groove.”
In recent weeks Plant has been in the studio working on the planned release, which will be his first since Raising Sand, the multi-platinum, 6-time Grammy® winning collaboration with fellow Rounder artist Alison Krauss. Krauss has most recently been recording with her longtime band Union Station, and will be touring with them this summer. The pair do not expect to announce a new album or tour in the coming year, though when asked about the collaboration, Plant says: “Oh yes, Alison and I get together quite often…and sometimes we dance.”
**On sale dates will vary throughout March & April. See below for ticket links and information to purchase.
Robert Plant and the Band Of Joy Tour Dates:
July
13 Memphis, TN - The Orpheum Theater Information available in May
15 Little Rock, AR - Robinson Center Music Hall Ticket Info
16 Tulsa, OK - Brady Theater Ticket Info
18 Albuquerque, NM - Sandia Casino Amphitheater Ticket Info
20 Phoenix, AZ - Dodge Theater Ticket Info
21 Tucson, AZ - Anselmo Valencia Amphitheater Ticket Info
23 Dallas, TX Meyerson Symphony Hall Ticket Info
24 Houston, TX - Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion Ticket Info
26 Austin, TX - Stubbs Waller Creek Amphitheater Ticket Info
28 Mobile, AL - The Saenger Theatre Ticket Info
30 Clearwater, FL - Ruth Eckerd Hall Ticket Info
31 Miami, FL - Bayfront Park Amphitheater Ticket Info
June 01, 2010
By Richard Smirke, London
Veteran rocker Robert Plant unveiled his new album project "Band of Joy" in London earlier today (June 1).
Speaking at a reception in events venue Il Bottaccio, Belgravia, which had been specially decorated as a rundown farm for the occasion, Plant introduced himself by saying: "I was in a psychedelic band and there's never been a more surreal point than this one."
Prior to the singer's brief appearance, for which he claimed to have coincidently been passing, guests were treated to the first playback of Plant's new record -- the eagerly awaited follow-up to 2007's "Raising Sand," the artist's multiple Grammy-winning album with Alison Krauss.
"Band of Joy" takes its name from the blues band that Plant fronted before he joined Led Zeppelin, although Plant is the sole original member to participate in this new incarnation.
As previously announced, Plant is set to tour "Band of Joy" later this year with a 12-city trek beginning in Memphis on July 13. Further dates are set to follow in the fall, according to a statement posted on the artist's official website (www.robertplant.com).
Universal is set to drop the 12-track record internationally Sept. 13. Its U.S. release will be handled by Rounder, according to a statement on the artist's website.
Commenting on the record, which was met with an enthusiastic reception from all present, Plant revealed that he recorded "24 songs in 15 days" for the record, adding, " The enthusiasm and rebirth of everybody involved was fucking phenomenal. It stretched us all."
Similar in tone and instrumentation to "Raising Sand", "Band of Joy" includes a series of knockout vocal contributions from American singer-songwriter Patty Griffin. Buddy Miller, who also features on the album, co-produced the album.
Darrell Scott, Byron House and drummer Marco Giovino additionally star on the record, according to Plant's web site, although at this stage Universal is remaining tight-lipped about whether any other guest musicians contributed to the record or on what tracks artists appear. Universal staffers at the launch also declined to confirm if Band of Joy was to be considered a solo project from Plant or whether it is a group endeavor with shared writing credits.
Billboard.biz, can, however, report that the new record forms a triumphant follow-up to "Raising Sand", replicating the raw organic sound of its predecessor while, at times, pursuing a rockier direction.
Standout tracks include album opener "Angel Dance," a driving blues number, "Silver Rider," an epic duet (probably with Griffin), which alternates between quiet relaxed verses and an infectiously catchy rock chorus, and "I'm Falling In Love Again," a beautifully soulful country ballad.
Elsewhere on the record, "You Can't Buy My Love" delivers a foot-tapping cross between Johnny Cash and Hamburg-era Beatles, while "Monkey" momentarily harks back to Plant's days in Led Zeppelin with its potent mix of feedback, grinding rock riffs and deep bass. The wonderful "Satan Your Kingdom Must Come Down," meanwhile, is a blues number which pushes Plant's still-powerful vocals to the fore.
The album closes with blues rock number "Even This Shall Pass Away," which finds Plant singing, "What is wealth the King would say/Even this shall pass away" before culminating in an extended instrumental outro.
"'Band of Joy' was an appropriate title for an amazing group of people who had nothing to lose," Plant told the assembled media audience before leaving the room, declaring: "I'm off to make another one."
FIRST LOOK: Robert Plant's Band Of Joy
Robert Plant was in London last night at the launch of his latest venture, ‘Band of Joy’. Attendees were treated to a full playback of the new album at Il Bottacio in Belgravia, which had been specially decked out with ramshackle farm and Americana memorabilia.
Planet Rock was there for the event and can confirm the album’s an absolute blinder. Picking up the stripped back blues/country vibe of 2007’s ‘Raising Sand’, there’s an infectious groove from the start with opener ‘Angel Dance’. Plant gives the blues a full-on golden god workout as only he can with ‘Silver Rider’ and his rockier side emerges triumphant on standout tracks such as ‘Monkey’.
Looking tanned and relaxed, Plant told the select gathering all about his latest project. He also mentioned, with a wry smile, that in between the original Band of Joy which he fronted in the mid 60’s (featuring John Bonham on drums) and the 2010 Band of Joy, “some other stuff” happened….
For this new album, Plant is the only original member but he’s joined by Patty Griffin on vocals, Darrell Scott, multi instrumentalist/vocals, Byron House, Bass/Vocals, Marco Giovino on drums and percussion/vocals, and co-producer Buddy Miller, guitar/vocals.
Robert Plant tours the US in July with the Band of Joy. The album is set for release in September.
Tracklisting:
Angel Dance
House of Cards
Central Two-O-Nine
Silver Rider
You Can’t Buy my Love
I’m Falling In Love Again
The Only Sound That Matters
Monkey
Cindy, I’ll Marry You One Day
Harms Swift Way
Satan Your Kingdom Must Come Down
Even This Shall Pass Away
Liz Barnes
For alll the latest news and info about Robert Plant and his brand new album keep your eyes glued to www.robertplant.com
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Chicago Sun Times Article
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Robert Plant UK Tour dates:
Robert Plant will be playing the following UK dates:
• HMV Forum, London - Thursday 2nd September 2010
• St David’s Hall, Cardiff - Tuesday 26th October 2010
• Symphony Hall, Birmingham - Wednesday 27th October 2010
• Palace Theatre, Manchester - Sunday 31st October 2010
Pre sale tickets will go on sale from 9am on Wed 7th July, and everyone registered (on the email mailinglist) for the pre sale will be sent instructions for purchase on the 6th.
Tickets will go on general sale from 9am on the 9th July from the following places:
HMV Forum, London http://www.hmvtickets.com/robertplant
St David’s Hall, Cardiff http://www.stdavidshallcardiff.co.uk
Symphony Hall, Birmingham http://www.thsh.co.uk
Palace Theatre, Manchester http://www.palaceandoperahouse.org.uk
Fans can still gain access to the pre sale by ordering Band of Joy from HMV here, before 8am on Monday 5th July:
http://hmv.com/hmvweb/navigate.do?&pPageID=4977
&A: Robert Plant
Posted by Lindsey Millar on Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 11:20 PM
Thursday, in one of the season’s most anticipated concerts, Robert Plant, the iconic voice of Led Zeppelin, comes to Robinson Center Music Hall. After piling up Grammy gold last year for “Raising Sand,” his critical and commercial hit project with Allison Krauss and T-Bone Burnett, Plant’s headed to town with new collaborators in advance of a September 14 album release. He’s calling the group and the album Band of Joy, a name resurrected from his pre-Zeppelin band with John Bonham. This time around, his band mates include singer/songwriter Patty Griffin, producer and guitarist Buddy Miller, multi-instrumentalist Darrell Scott, bassist Byron House and percussionist Marco Giovino. The album, like “Raising Sand,” is another dip into the Great American Songbook, with songs ranging from “Satan, Your Kingdom Must Come Down” to Los Lobos’ “Angel Dance” to a pair of tracks from Minnesota indie rockers Low.
I spoke with Plant on Monday about shifting styles, Townes Van Zandt, Helena and more.
How’s it going?
Excellent. I finally got back to my ancient home away from home. I’m staring across the Mississippi River. So, yeah, I’m rockin’.
The tour begins tomorrow night there in Memphis. So you’ve got some time to tour around?
Well, you know, I’ve got some stuff to do here and I’ve got some friends to see. I met Elvis many, many years ago when I was in Zep, so I got to know people who were around him too, and they know people who were around Jerry Lee. And I’ve got good connection with friends down in Clarksdale, Mississippi, too.
In a lot of ways your solo career has been if not about defying expectations then at least jumping around a lot stylistically. So I suppose we shouldn’t be surprised that you’re not following your massively successful collaboration with Alison Krauss and T-Bone Burnett with another record with Krauss and Burnett?
You shouldn’t be surprised. And you wouldn’t be surprised to know that sooner or later they’ll be a Union Station record out and then there’ll be another summer and another winter and there’ll be another Plant and Krauss record out, I guess.
This is a wonderful world of music, especially with great hindsight and more and more knowledge and a little more maturity. It means that so many things are possible, even though you kind of lose the great panoramic vista of enormous success that comes or doesn’t come. Every dog has his day, and my day is a different color quite regularly. My plan is to stimulate, so that I can sing with true meaning. I can’t bluff it. To be a singer and just to repeat everything that he is and has been, I’d be a hell of a one trick pony, so I can’t do that.
If you get together with people and you can make stuff work in four hours, you know you’re on course for making a blinding collection of songs in a new zone. That has a very familiar ring because that’s what happened in 1968, 1969 and 1970 and on through the Zeppelin world. We never went back to the same spot.
On paper, though, this project looks similar to working with Burnett and Krauss: you, plus a really respected roots producer in Buddy Miller and a really respected female folk vocalist in Patty Griffin. But early reports indicate it’s a departure, in terms of its sound, from “Raising Sand.”
There’s a lot more going on in the nether regions. It’s a punchy record. It drives a lot. It’s a little to The Electric Prunes, I guess. Occasionally, there’s enough spook there to think you might be getting ready for a Cocteau Twins gig. Buddy wasn’t involved in the recording of “Raising Sand.” But he played with us throughout the tour. It was that relationship that I struck up with him at that time and the great dynamism of music — the love it all — that got us into this new zone. It’s really powerful.
You’ve got a really eclectic assortment of songs on the album — from acts as diverse as Los Lobos, The Kelly Brothers, Townes Van Zandt and Low. Can you talk about the song selection? Did you and Miller pick the songs you’d cover together?
I’ve been carrying Low songs in my car for about eight or nine years. That “Great Destroyer” album I used to play it a lot. I thought it’s quite removed from where I’ve been going, but I know Buddy’s got that spook stuff covered. Around Christmas time, I said, ‘Let’s touch it and see what we could do.’ It was at that point that he suggested that Patty could come along and really make the thing work. She was in Nashville and came by and tried it out and it was a very strong and sensuous vocal link. It’s really just what we want. It’s great.
Let’s talk about some of the other song choices. You’ve got The Kelly Brothers.
Yeah, there’s some amazing DVDs that you can get, something like seven or eight DVDs of stuff that’s maybe not very mainstream from that period. Maybe a little OV Wright or ZZ Hill and the Kelly Brothers are there right in the middle of it. It’s just a great period of music.
I saw some YouTube footage of them. They had really fantastic pompadours.
That’s right. And the bolero jackets! We all wanted to look like that, but a white boy from Worcestershire with spots —
Has trouble pulling that off?
Yeah, it doesn’t work really. Frayed jeans and beatnik sandals were a bit more apropos. Later on, I did get into pointy-toe shoes, and I don’t seem to have left that behind.
Can you talk about the Townes Van Zandt song, “Harms Swift Way”?
It’s kind of drifted around. His — I’m not going to say “reading” because that’s really where we know we’ve gone right up our own sphincter — his music was dramatic at times, sometimes lost and sometimes hugely found, and this was, maybe, according to one aficionado, the last thing he ever wrote. It’s not a very happy tune in its original form. And basically it’s not happy-ed up now, but at least it’s got a driving beat and sounds like it just dropped off “Sweetheart of the Rodeo.”
I know the album is to be called “Band of Joy,” but are you and Miller and Griffin and others also Band of Joy?
Yeah, everything is Band of Joy.
Why did you decide to revive the project?
Because my original Band of Joy, which was right up to meeting Jimmy Page, was like nothing mattered. You just had to get the music right — at the expense of everything. There was a very buccaneer approach to it. John Bonham and myself drove the band, but we were ably supported at that time by musicians who felt that the most important thing on the planet was to get it out and express it rather than follow Herman’s Hermits and The Tremeloes or Freddie and the Dreamers into some American teen scene moment. It was a kind of buccaneer band. I felt that I’ve got nothing to lose. I’m singing good. These people are amazing. I find that I’m learning way more by being with these people. Every day is a day when I learn something fresh.
What should people expect on the tour?
Tunes from everywhere. Tunes from 1968 in a studio in London. Tunes from 1988 in a studio in London. Tunes from 2008 in a studio in Nashville. And it’s not sedate.
So you’ll be doing “Raising Sand” and Zeppelin songs?
There’s room for “squeezing my lemon” and “baby, baby.” Also, “I got a woman with plenty of money/She’s got the money and I’ve got the honey” doesn’t seem like a bad thing to sing. It’s not too challenging cerebrally anyway.
This’ll be your first time performing in Arkansas, right?
No. I was in Little Rock about 10 years ago. I remember driving in from West Helena.
I was going to ask about that. I knew you’d been in Helena and sat in at KFFA with Sonny Payne.
That’s right. Nicely and quite righteously for me and him there was no connection with me being a musician*, I was just a passerby. That made it so much better for me because I could talk about things like the last Sonny Boy sessions on Arhoolie before he died.
You should come back in the fall. The blues fest they have in Helena is going to be bigger than usual. They’ve got BB King and Dr. John and Taj Mahal.
Oh really. How did they manage to do that? It’s just on the levee there on Main Street in downtown Helena, right?
It’s sort of struggled in years past, and they really struggled when the company who owns the name to King Biscuit took it back and they had to rename it the Arkansas Blues and Heritage Festival, which, obviously, doesn’t have the same ring to it.
You know what’s really sad is when you come over the bridge on Highway 49 there used to be years ago a sign that said “Welcome to West Helena, the home of Sonny Boy Williamson” that fell in the grass and no one had the bloody propensity to put it back.**
I was in Tutwiler [Miss.] this year to unveil a plaque for WC Handy, and this husband and wife came up to me from Cornwall in the UK and they were looking for clues. I think these things are part of the heritage of an area that can use as much tourist dollar as possible.
I’d be a bad journalist if I didn’t ask: Is there any chance for another Led Zeppelin reunion?
You know, sometimes there’s a hell of a lot of interference on the line.
[Laughs] Fair enough.
*The story goes that, when asked by Payne what he did in England, Plant said, “I play a bit of tennis.”
**I called Delta Cultural Center director Katie Harrington in Helena to ask about the sign. She couldn’t think of what Plant might be talking about, but said that a marker for the Mississippi Blues Heritage Trail that references Sonny Boy Williamson and “King Biscuit Time” sits outside the DCC. She added, “Helena is paying more attention to its past, preserving what it can, saving what it can.”
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Robert Plant & the Band of Joy - 2011 Tour Dates
January:
18 Asheville, NC - Thomas Wolfe Auditorium
19 Pittsburgh, PA - Peterson Events Center (University of Pittsburgh)
21 Ann Arbor, MI - Hill Auditorium
22 Toronto, ONT - Sony Centre for the Performing Arts
25 Boston, MA House of Blues
26 Upper Darby, PA - Tower Theatre
28 Mashantucket, CT -MGM Grand Theater at MGM Grand at Foxwoods
29 New York, NY - Beacon Theatre
February:
1 Washington, DC DAR - Constitution Hall
2 Raleigh, NC Raleigh - Memorial Auditorium
4 North Charleston, SC - North Charleston Performing Arts Center
5 Atlanta, GA - Fox Theatre
7 Charlotte, NC - Ovens Auditorium
8 and 9 Nashville, TN - War Memorial Auditorium