Rod Stewart, for one, might have gone through the Great American Songbook like a family dog digging up a favourite bone, but Robert Plant and the Saving Grace band have been building a classic songbook all their own. Plant, who has drifted happily and assuredly since his heady days as a golden god of rock, has spent a lifetime playing musical hopscotch, seemingly content wherever he lands.
Whether it was the sublime rock’n’roll of his early solo career, or the surprise platinum-selling smash that came from his joyous union with Alison Krauss, or simply going back to play pub gigs with his old outfit Band Of Joy, Plant, you feel, was at peace. Although it’s a restless, ever-moving peace. Or it was, until covid stilled everything and even rock stars were forced to stop and ponder a world outside their window that was now out of reach.
