Robert Plant’s Saving Grace grew out of lockdown sessions in the English countryside, transforming age-old songs into a collection that feels as vital today as when they were first sung.
Robert Plant returns with Saving Grace, a project that has been quietly building for six years. Both an album and the name of his latest band, Saving Grace is Plant’s newest exploration of the roots music that has guided him throughout his career. The record presents a 10-track set of reinvigorated renditions spanning blues, folk, gospel, country, and the murky spaces where these traditions overlap. Plant calls it “a song book for the lost and found.”
The album pulls from a wide field of voices, revisiting work by Memphis Minnie, Blind Willie Johnson, Moby Grape’s Bob Mosley, the Low Anthem, Sarah Siskind, Martha Scanlan, and Low. Saving Grace's reimagining of the centuries-old “Gospel Plough” with its layering banjo, guitar, percussion, and harmonies gives us something hypnotic and fresh. “It’s an impressive collection of people now. I can’t tell you how lucky I feel about this,” Plant says. “What I am really impressed by is this living, new world of whatever this music is. With this mélange of music, song and voice, anywhere and everywhere is the way to see the road ahead.”
The idea for Saving Grace first took shape during the pandemic, when Plant found himself rooted in the English countryside rather than roaming stages around the world. He drew together musicians who shared a passion for haunting, time-traveling songs: vocalist Suzi Dian, drummer Oli Jefferson, guitarist Tony Kelsey, banjo and string player Matt Worley, and cellist Barney Morse-Brown. Over the past several years, they developed a sound that thrives on freedom, personality, and deep respect for tradition.
Produced by Plant and the band, Saving Grace was recorded between 2019 and early 2025 in the Cotswolds and along the Welsh Borders. It follows his acclaimed work on lullaby and… The Ceaseless Roar and Carry Fire, as well as his celebrated reunion with Alison Krauss on Raise The Roof. Where those projects balanced original songwriting with modern reinterpretation, Saving Grace leans fully into the idea of breathing new life into mostly century-old songs.
For Plant, the project underscores that roots music is not static but living, shifting, and endlessly adaptable. Saving Grace is proof that the road ahead for him, and for these songs, still stretches wide open.