Band of Joy - Robert Plant
5/5
Robert Plant's last outing was his 2007 Grammy-gobbling collaboration with country music sweetheart Alison Krauss' Raising Sand.
With Band of Joy Plant revisits his pre-Zeppelin days and also demonstrates the musical chameleon he has become.
Band of Joy was a band that Plant fronted, with drummer
John Bonham, in 1966 just before Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones joined them to become the New Yardbirds, which in turn transformed into Led Zeppelin.
Put bluntly, this is a sensational set of songs - from Zeppelin-esque tours de force to mellow and subtle pop and country. Los Lobos' Angel Dance is a full-on kick start, but the mood changes frequently, with Richard Thompson's House of Cards, and the classic pop sounds of the little known Barbara Lynne song You Can't Buy My Love or the Kelly Brothers' I'm Falling in Love Again. Gospel, rock, pop, country, folk, Plant draws from them on his way to creating the masterpiece that is Band of Joy. Don't miss it.
