LedZepNews has uncovered the tracklist for Robert Plant\u2019s abandoned album Band of Joy Volume 2 which was written in 2012.<\/p>\n
We found copyright registration filings made in the US on June 11, 2013 which clearly lay out all of the track names and writers for 11 songs that were intended for the album. The filings indicate the songs were written in 2012.<\/p>\n
The album remains unreleased, however, despite Plant\u2019s website announcing in 2020 that it would soon be released.<\/p>\n
Only two songs from Band of Joy Volume 2 have emerged. \u201cCharlie Patton Highway (Turn It Up \u2013 Part 1)\u201d was released on Plant\u2019s 2020 compilation album Digging Deep: Subterranea.<\/p>\n
A second song titled \u201c47 Roses\u201d was released on a compilation CD included in the October 2025 issue of Mojo Magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n Here are the track names we uncovered. Unless otherwise indicated, filings show that Plant wrote the lyrics for the songs while the music was written by Plant along with Buddy Miller and Marco Giovino.<\/p>\n All Fall Down<\/strong><\/p>\n Burning Bridges<\/strong><\/p>\n Shutters and Boards<\/strong><\/p>\n Heavy Weather<\/strong><\/p>\n Writing on the Wall<\/strong><\/p>\n Flatter to Deceive<\/strong><\/p>\n I Haven\u2019t Finished Loving You Yet<\/strong><\/p>\n Divine Intervention<\/strong><\/p>\n Along with Plant, Miller and Giovino, the music for this song is also listed as being created by Byron House and Darrell Scott.<\/p>\n Kayenta<\/strong><\/p>\n Plant talked about visiting the town of Kayenta in a 2017 interview with BBC Radio 5 Live<\/a>:<\/p>\n I got to a town called Kayenta and there it\u2019s a Navajo town. I could see that there was nothing ever going to grow there. There was a couple of supermarkets and a Dairy Queen and some burger stand and stuff. I saw the pain in people and I saw what a poor diet does, what being left in the corner selling trinkets on the side of the road, how demeaning and how ridiculous it is. I\u2019ve seen a million instances like that from when I was 20 years old to now across America. And not just in the United States, by the way, but everywhere where we\u2019ve been, more or less. Good intentions are wondrous and the world is full of wonderful people and good intentions, but the weight of empire, it\u2019s all around us.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n The copyright filing for the song states that Patty Griffin wrote the lyrics along with Plant. Along with Plant, Miller and Giovino, the music for this song is also listed as being created by Griffin, Byron House and Darrell Scott.<\/p>\n Charlie Patton Highway (Turn It Up \u2013 Part 1)<\/strong><\/p>\n This song is simply titled \u201cTurn it Up\u201d in the 2013 copyright filing. It was released on Plant\u2019s 2020 compilation album Digging Deep: Subterranea.<\/p>\n 47 Roses<\/strong><\/p>\n This song was released through Mojo Magazine\u2019s October 2025 issue on the Higher Rock Plant compilation CD.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s basically about the bridge that crosses the Mississippi between Lula, Mississippi, birthplace of Son House, and West Helena, Arkansas, where Sonny Boy Williamson used to present the King Biscuit Flower Hour,\u201d Plant explained in the magazine issue. \u201cAbout circumstances I was aware of in the middle of that time inspired by crossing that bridge.\u201d<\/p>\n The history of Band of Joy Volume 2<\/p>\n A planned second Band of Joy album, titled Band of Joy Volume 2,\u00a0was announced through Plant\u2019s website in 2020<\/a>. \u201cCharlie Patton Highway (Turn It Up \u2013 Part 1)\u201d, a track from the \u201csoon to be released album\u201d was included on Plant\u2019s 2020 compilation album Digging Deep: Subterranea.<\/p>\n Speaking to BBC Radio 6 Music later in 2020<\/a>, Plant explained the song \u201coriginates in Buddy Miller\u2019s downstairs front room,\u201d Plant said. \u201cBuddy Miller is a really great friend of mine and a great producer and he played with us on the Raising Sand tour with Alison Krauss and T Bone [Burnett]. He\u2019s a very renowned Grammy-winning producer and arranger and makes fantastic records with his wife Julie.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI had a group called the Band Of Joy which we created after the Raising Sand tour had finished and Patty Griffin joined us and we had this amazing tour and amazing songs that we recorded.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAnd at the end of that tour, at the end of the Band Of Joy tour, Patty went off to work her album American Kid and Buddy and I started creating a Band Of Joy 2 and this was one of the things that we developed along the way.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s just the three of us. There\u2019s Buddy, Marco Giovino on drums and myself and it\u2019s one of about 13 pieces from that session that is hidden away in my cupboard.\u201d<\/p>\n However, plans to release the second Band of Joy album seem to have been abandoned after 2020.\u00a0When asked about the album by Mojo Magazine in 2021<\/a>, Plant reportedly \u201cwinces at the notion of reconvening to complete it.\u201d<\/p>\n A glimmer of hope came in 2022, however, when\u00a0an email sent to subscribers of Plant\u2019s official mailing list said<\/a>\u00a0that \u201cduring and around all the events this year, RP has been busy working in the studio refining new work from the Honeydrippers collection and reviewing the progress that was made with Band of Joy Vol 2\u2033.<\/p>\n However, no release of Band of Joy Volume 2 or extra material from the Honeydrippers has been announced.<\/p>\n Follow Led Zeppelin News on Twitter<\/a> and Facebook<\/a> to stay up to date on news as it happens. 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