August 20th, 2007 - Happy Birthday Robert Plant!

He is known for his powerful style, often mystical lyrics, and wide vocal range. As the lead singer of Led Zeppelin he is often defined as the quintessential rock front man, combining rare musical adeptness and knowledge with a large measure of stage bravado and braggadocio. As a solo artist following Led Zeppelin’s break up after the death of John Bonham, he is often credited for his wide range of musical taste and his ability to perform an eclectic range of songs in a refined and critically acclaimed manner.

As a former member of Led Zeppelin, along with Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones, Plant received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005 and the Polar Music Prize in 2006. Plant still actively tours, the most recent taking place in US and Europe during 2005/2006 with Strange Sensation. His sets typically include recent, but not only, solo material and plenty of Led Zeppelin favorites, often with new and expanded arrangements. A DVD titled Soundstage: Robert Plant and the Strange Sensation, featuring his Soundstage performance (filmed at the Soundstage Studios in Chicago on September 16, 2005), was released in October 2006. An expansive box set of his solo work, Nine Lives, was released in November 2006. It was reported on Billboard’s Website that Robert is contributing a track to the Fats Domino tribute album entitled “It Keeps Rainin’”. The performers list indicates that he will cover the song with the “Lil’ Band o’ Gold”.

Recently, Plant has been recording music with bluegrass star Alison Krauss. The album, Raising Sand, will be released on October 23, 2007 on Rounder Records, the label announced on August 5, 2007. The album that has been recorded in Nashville and Los Angeles includes the two songwriters doing lesser-known material from R&B, blues, folk, and country songwriters including Mel Tillis, Townes Van Zandt, Gene Clark, Tom Waits, Doc Waltson, Little Milton Campbell, and the Everly Brothers.

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