For the last several years, Robert Plant has toured around Europe multiple times with a new acoustic side project called Saving Grace that also features female vocalist Suzy Dian. Now, the legendary Led Zeppelin singer has announced plans to release a debut album with the group this fall, as well as his first North American tour dates with the band.
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The album, titled Saving Grace, is due out on September 26. The 10-track collection of covers that includes renditions of traditional folk tunes, as well as songs by blues greats Memphis Minnie and Blind Willie Johnson, and some contemporary folk and indie-rock rock artists.
Among the latter are Low, The Low Anthem, Martha Scanlan, and Sarah Siskind. Plant and Saving Grace have released their version of the 2005 Low tune “Everybody’s Song” as an advance digital single from the album. You also can check out a companion music video at Plant’s official YouTube channel.
In a new press release, Plant describes the Saving Grace album as “a song book of the lost and found.” The album was recorded between April 2019 and January 2025, in the U.K. regions of the Cotswolds and the Welsh Borders. Saving Grace also features drummer Oli Jefferson, guitarist Tony Kelsey, banjo and string player Matt Worley, and cellist Barney Morse-Brown.
More About Plant’s Collaboration with Saving Grace
According to the press statement, Plant’s collaboration with Dian and the musicians has grown “into a wide-ranging workshop of styles and personalities, weaving through time and circumstance with joy and abandon.”
“We laugh a lot, really. I think that suits me. I like laughing,” the 76-year-old Rock & Roll Hall of Famer said. “You know, I can’t find any reason to be too serious about anything. I’m not jaded. The sweetness of the whole thing … These are sweet people and they are playing out all the stuff that they could never get out before. They have become unique stylists and together they seem to have landed in a most interesting place.”
You can pre-order the Saving Grace album now. The record is Plant’s first album since his 2021 collaboration with Alison Krauss, Raise the Roof.
Saving Grace’s Tour Plans
Plant and Saving Grace recently launched a European summer tour featuring performances in various cities in France and Spain. The trek kicked off on July 10 in Saint-Malô-du-Bois, France, and is plotted out through a July 30 performance in Barcelona, Spain.
Then, this fall, the group will mount its first-ever North American tour in support of the album. The outing gets underway October 30 in Wheeling, West Virginia, and runs through a November 18 show in Seattle. Plant and Saving Grace also will visit Washington, D.C.; Brooklyn and Port Chester, New York; Boston; Toronto; Chicago; and Denver.
Visit RobertPlant.com for information about purchasing tickets to the concerts.
An Italian Train Commercial Featured Saving Grace’s Low Cover
In 2024, Plant and Saving Grace appeared in a commercial for Italy’s Trenitalia rail service and its Frecciarossa high-speed trains. The ad features footage Robert at a terminal in Rome, traveling on a train, and performing in concert with Saving Grace.
The commercial also includes clips of Plant having coffee with Dian at the first-class Freccia Lounge, and chatting while traveling in one of Frecciarossa’s Executive Class train cars. The video is soundtracked by Saving Grace’s cover of the Low tune “Everybody’s Song.”
According to an article posted on Classic Rock’s website, the ad was filmed in October 2024, while Saving Grace was touring Italy.
Saving Grace Track List:
- “Chevrolet”
- “As I Roved Out”
- “It’s a Beautiful Day Today”
- “Soul of a Man”
- “Ticket Taker” (The Low Anthem cover)
- “I Never Will Marry”
- “Higher Rock”
- “Too Far from You”
- “Everybody’s Song” (Low cover)
- “Gospel Plough”
Robert Plant & Saving Grace Tour Dates:
July 17 – Vienne, France -Théâtre Antique
July 19 – Salon-de-Provence, France @ Château de l’Empéri
July 21 – Marciac, France @ Jazz in Marciac
July 23 – Carcassonne, France @ Festival de Carcassonne – Theatre Jean Deschamps
July 26 – Granada, Spain @ Palacio de Congresos de Granada
July 28 – Valencia, Spain @ Palau de les Arts
July 30 – Barcelona, Spain @ Teatro Liceo -Milleni Concert Series
October 30 – Wheeling, WV @ Capitol Theatre Wheeling
November 2 – Charlottesville, VA @ The Paramount Theater of Charlottesville
November 3 – Washington, DC @ Lincoln Theatre
November 5 – Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Paramount
November 6 – Boston, MA @ Boch Center Shubert Theatre
November 8 – Port Chester, NY @ Capitol Theatre
November 10 – Toronto, ON, Canada @ Massey Hall
November 12 – Chicago, IL @ The Vic
November 13 – Chicago, IL @ Old Town School of Folk Music
November 15 – Denver, CO @ Ellie Caulkins Opera House
November 18 – Seattle, WA @ The Moore Theatre
(Photo by Tom Oldham)
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