LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – Some things in Robert Plant's record collection are completely predictable. Others might surprise you. Like that copy of Low's "The Great Destroyer." "It's great music," Plant said of the Duluth, Minn., indie band known for its often slow, atmospheric songs. "It's always been in the house playing away alongside Jerry Lee Lewis and Howlin' Wolf, you know. There's room for everything." That could be the theme of Plant's new solo album, "Band of Joy," an eclectic collection mostly of covers and reinterpretations that showcase the former Led Zeppelin frontman's range in ways you wouldn't expect from a singer in his fifth decade at the edge of the stage. The album — named for a band Plant was in with John Bonham before the two joined Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones — opens with a cover of Los Lobos' "Angel Dance," then jumps in several equally unpredictable directions. There are versions of Richard Thompson's "House of Cards" along with the Low songs "Silver Rider" and "Monkey," folklorist Bascom Lamar Lunsford's recording of "Cindy I'll Marry You Some Day," "The Only Sound That Matters" by Milton Mapes and Townes Van Zandt's "Harm's Swift Way." - (more)
Shit, missed him at the Bowery Ballroom last Sunday (tour dates).
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