ROBERT PLANT Expected To Claim #1 Spot On This Week's Official Albums Chart
September 10, 2014, 10 years ago
Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant is on track to clinch the Official Albums Chart #1 spot this weekend with his new album, lullaby and... The Ceaseless Roar.
The singer’s self-produced LP is his tenth solo album and first featuring backing band The Sensational Space Shifters. Read more at OfficialCharts.com.
The album features 11 new recordings, nine of which are original songs written by Plant with his band, The Sensational Space Shifters—Justin Adams: bendirs, djembe, guitars, tehardant, background vocals; John Baggott: keyboards, loops, moog bass, piano, tabal, background vocals; Juldeh Camara: kologo, ritti, Fulani vocals; Billy Fuller: bass, drum programming, omnichord, upright bass; Dave Smith: drum set; and Liam “Skin” Tyson: banjo, guitar, background vocals.
Lullaby And... The Ceaseless Roar is Plant’s first record since 2010’s Band of Joy, which followed 2007’s six-time Grammy Award–winning collaboration with Alison Krauss, Raising Sand. Justin Adams and John Baggott of The Sensational Space Shifters appeared on Plant’s 2002 release Dreamland, while all but Camara and Smith appeared on 2005’s Mighty Rearranger. The new-album line-up recently toured the world before recording Lullaby And... The Ceaseless Roar at Helium Studios in Wiltshire and Real World Studios in Bath, UK.
“Rainbow” was recorded in Contino Rooms in London. Tchad Blake mixed all but three tracks on the album. “It’s really a celebratory record, powerful, gritty, African, Trance meets Zep,” Plant says. “The whole impetus of my life as a singer has to be driven by a good brotherhood. I am very lucky to work with The Sensational Space Shifters. They come from exciting areas of contemporary music…I have been around awhile and I ask myself, do I have anything to say? Is there a song still inside me? In my heart? I see life and what’s happening to me. Along the trail there are expectations, disappointments, happiness, questions and strong relationships,” Plant explains. “….and now I’m able to express my feelings through melody, power and trance; together in a kaleidescope of sound, colour , and friendship.
Lullaby And... The Ceaseless Roar tracklist:
"Little Maggie" (Trad. arr. by Plant/Adams/Baggott/Fuller/Smith/Tyson)"Rainbow" (Plant/Adams/Baggott/Fuller/Tyson)
"Pocketful of Golden" (Plant/Adams/Baggott/Camara/Fuller/Smith/Tyson)
"Embrace Another Fall" (Plant/Adams/Baggott/Camara/Fuller/Smith/Tyson)
"Turn It Up" (Plant/Adams/Baggott/Fuller/Smith/Tyson)
"A Stolen Kiss" (Plant/Adams/Baggott/Fuller/Tyson)
"Somebody There" (Plant/Adams/Baggott/Fuller/Smith/Tyson)
"Poor Howard" *
"House of Love" (Plant/Adams/Baggott/Fuller/Smith/Tyson)
"Up on the Hollow Hill" (Understanding Arthur) (Plant/Adams/Baggott/Fuller/Tyson)
"Arbaden" (Maggie’s Babby) (Plant/Adams/Baggott/Camara/Fuller/Smith/Tyson)
*All songs published by Sons of Einion Ltd and administered by WB Music Corp (ASCAP) except “Poor Howard” [Plant/Adams/Baggott/Camara/Fuller/Tyson], which is derived from “Po’ Howard” [Ledbetter (“Lead Belly”), A. Lomax and J. Lomax Sr.] and is published by Global Jukebox Publishing (BMI) and Folkways Music Publishers.
Lullaby And... The Ceaseless Roar trailer:
"Rainbow" video:
First short film:
Second short film:
Robert Plant And The Sensational Space Shifters will tour the US and Canada this fall with music from the new album, lullaby and... The Ceaseless Roar.
Dates:
September
27 - Brooklyn Academy Of Music - Brooklyn, NY
28 - Brooklyn Academy Of Music - Brooklyn, NY
30 - Massey Hall - Toronto, ON
October
4 - Fillmore Auditorium - Denver, CO
7 - Hollywood Palladium - Los Angeles, CA
Plant participated in a Facebook chat Tuesday morning to discuss his new album, Nilgiri tea and European football, and revealed that he wants to record with Jack White in Nashville next week.
"Would you consider working with Jack White at Third Man Records to record a single/album/anything," a fan asked, to which Plant replied, "I love Jack White's buccaneer spirit, and the way he dodges through the musical horizons. I'd be happy to make a single with him."
Plant went on to reveal that he'd be heading to White's native Nashville next week, and that he had already selected what track he wanted to record with White. "I'd like to do a track called 'Love Me' which was originally recorded by The Phantom," Plant wrote. "In fact, I'm going to Nashville on Sunday and can do it on Monday morning! I've got lunch with Alison Krauss at 2 PM and cocktails with Patty Griffin at 8 PM."
Read more at RollingStone.com.
