The album is his first featuring his new band and vocalist Suzi Dian
Robert Plant announces the release of Saving Grace, the first album featuring a new band of distinguished players, which he calls “a song book of the lost and found.” Arriving September 26th on Nonesuch Records, the genesis of Saving Grace began during the lockdown in “The Shire,” when Plant’s customary wandering was all but forbidden. While his recent adventures have centred around Nashville, having reunited with Alison Krauss for 2021’s chart-topping, multi-Grammy-nominated Raise The Roof, it was in the English countryside that Robert Plant connected closely to this diverse group of musicians, who through their own experiences had a shared lean towards his much-loved corners of evocative song. Together, Plant and Saving Grace – vocalist Suzi Dian, drummer Oli Jefferson, guitarist Tony Kelsey, banjo and string player Matt Worley, cellist Barney Morse-Brown – have spent the past six years growing 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,” Plant says. “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.”
Following his previous acclaimed releases on Nonesuch Records – 2014’s Lullaby and… The Ceaseless Roar and 2017’s Carry Fire – Saving Grace brings yet another chapter of Robert Plant’s ceaseless roar into the daylight. Produced by Robert Plant and Saving Grace – and recorded between April 2019 and January 2025 in the Cotswolds and on the Welsh Borders – Saving Grace breathes fresh life into a collection of century-old music. A treasury of songs featured back in time by Memphis Minnie, Bob Mosley (Moby Grape), Blind Willie Johnson, The Low Anthem, Martha Scanlan, Sarah Siskind, and Mimi Parker and Alan Sparhawk’s Low.
After touring extensively across the UK and Europe in recent months and years, Robert Plant and Saving Grace will perform for the first time in the US this fall, with an initial run of a dozen North American shows announced. Dates include NYC’s Brooklyn Paramount, Port Chester’s Capitol Theatre, Chicago’s The Vic, Los Angeles’ United Theater and more.
- Saving Grace Tracklist
- Chevrolet
- As I Roved Out
- It’s A Beautiful Day Today
- Soul Of A Man
- Ticket Taker
- I Never Will Marry
- Higher Rock
- Too Far From You
- Everybody’s Song
- Gospel Plough
Robert Plant & Saving Grace 2025 North American Tour Dates:
July 17 – Vienne, FR @ Théâtre Antique
July 19 – Salon-de-Provence, FR @ Château de l’Empéri
July 21 – Marciac, FR @ Jazz in Marciac
July 23 – Carcassonne, FR @ Festival de Carcassonne – Theatre Jean Deschamps
July 26 – Granada, ES @ Palacio De Congresos De Granada
July 28 – Valencia, ES @ Palau de les Arts
July 30 – Barcelona, ES @ Teatro Liceo – Milleni Concert Series
Oct 30 – Wheeling, WV @ Capitol Theatre Wheeling
Nov 2 – Charlottesville, VA @ The Paramount Theater of Charlottesville
Nov 3 – Washington, DC @ Lincoln Theatre
Nov 5 – Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Paramount
Nov 6 – Boston, MA @ Boch Center Shubert Theatre
Nov 8 – Port Chester, NY @ Capitol Theatre
Nov 10 – Toronto, ON @ Massey Hall
Nov 12 – Chicago, IL @ The Vic
Nov 13 – Chicago, IL @ Old Town School of Folk Music
Nov 15 – Denver, CO @ Ellie Caulkins Opera House
Nov 18 – Seattle, WA @ The Moore Theatre
Nov 19 – Vancouver, BC @ Vogue Theatre
Nov 21 – Oakland, CA @ The Fox
Nov 22 – Los Angeles, CA @ United Theater on Broadway
