Robert Plant Releases Mighty Fine ‘Saving Grace’ Album, Ahead of Tour
by Best Classic Bands Staff
Robert Plant & Saving Grace (Photo: Tom Oldham; used with permission)
Robert Plant has released a fine new album, Saving Grace, and first featuring a new band of distinguished players, which he calls “a song book of the lost and found.” He begins a North American tour on October 30 with the band of the same name, followed by a U.K. run through the end of the year. The Saving Grace album, arrived September 26, 2025, via Nonesuch Records, and is available in the U.S. here and here, in Canada here and in the U.K. here. Listen to many of the songs below.
From the July 16 announcement: 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 centered 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 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.
“Chevrolet” is their rendition of Donovan’s 1965 “Hey Gyp (Dig the Slowness),” which is itself an adaptation of Memphis Minnie and Kansas Joe McCoy’s 1930 Delta blues classic, “Can I Do It for You.”
With “Gospel Plough,” they transform a centuries old spiritual number into a hypnotic and alluring mélange of vocals, steel banjo, acoustic guitar.
“We laugh a lot, really. I think that suits me. I like laughing,” says Plant, who turned 77 on August 20. “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.”
Listen to Plant and Saving Grace’s reimagined rendition of Low’s “Everybody’s Song”
The album, produced by Plant and Saving Grace – and recorded between April 2019 and January 2025 in the Cotswolds and on the Welsh Borders – 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.
Robert Plant 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
Watch them perform “Everybody’s Song”
After touring extensively across the U.K. and Europe in recent months and years, Plant and Saving Grace will perform for the first time in the U.S. this fall, with an initial run of North American shows.
Robert Plant & Saving Grace Tour Dates (Tickets are available here and here)
Oct 30 – Wheeling, WV – Capitol Theatre Wheeling
Nov 02 – Charlottesville, VA – The Paramount Theater of Charlottesville
Nov 03 – Washington, DC – Lincoln Theatre
Nov 05 – Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Paramount
Nov 06 – Boston, MA – Boch Center Shubert Theatre
Nov 08 – 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
Nov 23 – Valley Center, CA – Harrah’s Resort Socal
Dec 08 – Portsmouth, UK – Portsmouth Guildhall
Dec 09 – Eastbourne, UK – Congress Centre
Dec 11 – London, UK – Royal Festival Hall
Dec 14 – Birmingham, UK – Symphony Hall
Dec 15 – Manchester, UK – Manchester Apollo
Dec 17 – Glasgow, UK – Royal Concert Hall
Dec 18 – Edinburgh, UK – Usher Hall
Dec 21 – Middlesbrough, UK – Town Hall
Dec 22 – Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK – O2 City Hall
Dec 23 – York, England – York Barbican
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1 Comment so far
Jump into a conversationtrack sounds like Geoff & Maria Muldar’s version of song to me; Memphis Minnie/Kansas Joe’s version is great imo w/ better interplay of male/female voices…also have live ver by Ed Young/Emma Ramsey that has its charms, even have ver by Taj Mahal, that is so-so, and of course studio/live versions by Donovan, but MY FAVE version is Eric Burdon/Animals version…that ver I tend 2 play over & over again in lots of repetitions…while I was pleased/curious seeing Mr Plant was doing this song, and anxious 2 hear it, feel as said, sounds like knock off/nothing beyond muldaur’s version…glad he brings attention 2 it, and hope it leads 2 folks liking it, and seeking all these other versions of it, esp Animals & Memphis Minnie solo/duet versions…great tune almost 100 yrs old!