The rock & roll singer has become an integral figure in Americana roots music over the past two decades, thanks to collabs with Alison Krauss and T Bone Burnett<\/p>\n
\n\tBack in 2008, Robert Plant<\/a>\u2019s appearance Nashville\u2019s Ryman Auditorium for the Americana Honors & Awards was still something of a novelty: The rock & roll god in the Mother Church of Country Music! That night, the former Led Zeppelin frontman celebrated Album of the Year honors with Alison Krauss for their LP Raising Sand with T Bone Burnett (the twosome scored Duo of the Year honors too), a feat that Plant would repeat three years later when his Band of Joy LP was named that year\u2019s best album.<\/p>\n \n\tNow fully ensconced in the Americana genre, Plant will return to Nashville on Sept. 16 to receive one of the Americana Music Association\u2019s highest honors: a Lifetime Achievement Award. Past recipients include Buddy Guy, Elvis Costello, Patty Griffin, Don Henley, Los Lobos, and Bonnie Raitt.<\/p>\n \n\tPlant is currently on tour in support of last year\u2019s Saving Grace album, a record made with English singer Suzi Dian, who\u2019s been joining Plant on the road.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cIn recent years, I\u2019ve worked with both Alison Krauss and Patty Griffin. It was such a departure for me to come out of [my band] Strange Sensation into this world of sharing vocals and working around another singer, adapting to someone else\u2019s vocal style. And so I wanted to try and see whether or not there was another voice for me,\u201d Plant told Rolling Stone<\/a> last year. \u201cI was introduced to Suzi and to her husband, the drummer, Oli Jefferson, and I just really enjoyed her plaintive style and the freshness of her and enthusiasm of her approach to the songs I presented. It was almost like something I couldn\u2019t have even imagined for such a long time. There it was. And there it is. And there you have it.\u201d<\/p>\n \t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n \n\tPlant\u2019s Saving Grace tour hit Nashville\u2019s Ryman Auditorium in March. The tour resumes Sept. 18 in Missouri, just two days after Plant\u2019s return to the Ryman for the Americana Honors ceremony.<\/p>\n \n\tThis year\u2019s Album of the Year contenders include Tyler Childers\u2019 Snipe Hunter, Kathleen Edwards\u2019 Billionaire, S.G. Goodman\u2019s Planting by the Signs, Ken Pomeroy\u2019s Cruel Joke, and Margo Price\u2019s Hard Headed Woman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The rock & roll singer has become an integral figure in Americana roots music over the past two…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":939653,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[29],"tags":[378319,117086,171,975,90416,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-939652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-americana-honors-awards","tag-americanafest","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-robert-plant","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116931739521806834","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=939652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/939653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=939652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=939652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=939652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}