ROBERT PLANT - North American BAND OF JOY Tour To Start In Mid-January
September 13, 2010, 14 years ago
According to Gary Graff from Billboard.com, LED ZEPPELIN legend ROBERT PLANT expects his new BAND OF JOY to be a going concern and says that taking pen to paper - rather than continuing to cover other songs as he does on the Band Of Joy album, which is out Tuesday (September 14) - is the likely next step.
"We're talking. We have to write songs now," Plant tells Billboard.com. "It's all very well celebrating other people's songwriting, and I know there are artists who actually have an entire career doing that, whether it be ELVIS or SINATRA or...a lot of country artists who never write. But we're gonna be heading that way soon."But with "a lot of gigs lined up" to support Band Of Joy - including a showcase last night at New York's Bowery Ballroom, European dates in October and November and a North American tour starting in mid-January - Plant isn't yet ready to say how soon that will be.
"Well, who knows? I haven't got a great deal of self-esteem when it comes to writing. I have no idea how it will work out, and also it will be the first time I've ever written a song...with the Americana psyche in full flight, so we'll see. I'd like to think we can keep this going and just make Joy where it's appropriate."Read more here.
