Robert and Alison Krauss picked up an award at this years CMA Awards. The track “Gone Gone Gone” was named musical event of the year. The ceremony for the 42nd annual CMA Awards took place last Wednesday night (Nov. 12) in Nashville.

It has been confirmed that John Paul Jones is to appear at the annual Warren Haynes Christmas Jam held at Asheville Civic Centre Asheville, North Carolina. Warren Haynes is the guitarist and singer for Gov’t Mule and the Allman Brothers Band. Both of those bands are stated to appear over the two day event on December 12 and 13. John Paul Jones first collaborated with Haynes at the Bonnaroo festival in Manchester, Tenn; back in 2007, when the bassist jammed with Gov’t Mule on several Zeppelin numbers including No Quarter, …

Graeme Hutchinson has filed this feedback report on the recent Croydon Convention…
I just wanted to thank you all and provide an update on the 40th Anniversary Concert held last Friday at Fairfield Halls , Croydon:
Besides the tribute concert performance from the mighty Boot-Led-Zeppelin we were able to provide a number of other attractions for fans to enjoy in the lead up to the live show.
• Dave Lewis, Gary Foy and Cliff Hilliard were there on behalf of Tight But Loose displaying many rare photos and sharing decades of memories about …

Well Croydon duly rocked last Friday as we came out of our dens to celebrate 40 glorious years. The turn out was good and Boot Led  Zeppelin played for over three hours.
Unfortunately Mick Wall was unable to make it going down with a nasty gastric virus so I donned the number 12 shirt and waxed lyrical on his book and other topics. Graeme conducted the ABC raffle and auction and many hands went in pockets to support the trust.
As ever it was good to chew the Zep fat with familiar …

 
Plenty of press coverage for Cream bassist Jack Bruce and the controversial comments he made at the Classic Rock Awards to interviewer Dave Ling.
Links at …
xFM
Musicradar
Classic Rock Magazine 

All roads lead to Croydon on Friday as we come out of our dens to celebrate 40 glorious years of Led Zeppelin. The TBL crew will be in attendance, and I’ll be conducting an interview with author Mick Wall. I’m 150 pages into his mammoth new Zep biography and it’s already shaping up as the best book I’ve read on the band in years – maybe ever. Graeme Hutchinson is conducting a special charity auction for the ABC and Boot Led Zeppelin are headlining – all in all it’s a …

A new track recorded by John Paul Jones and Rayna Gellert from band Uncle Earl features on a new CD made up of the soundtrack for the acclaimed Sacred Harp documentary Awake, My Soul: The Story of the Sacred Harp and a compilation of artists performing their arrangements of Sacred Harp songs. The soundtrack CD contains some of the finest recordings of traditional Sacred Harp singing, a beautifully haunting and powerful form of a cappella shape note singing. The second part, Help Me to Sing, features 19 tracks commissioned especially …

The 40th anniversary of Led Zeppelin will be celebrated on Friday November 7th at the Fairfield Halls Croydon. Tribute band Boot Led Zeppelin will be headlining the event with a special performance. 
Doors open at 5pm and the line up includes memorabilia displays, stalls including Tight But Loose, and various screenings of Zep footage. 
Guest speakers Dave Lewis and Mick Wall (who will be discussing his already much talked about new Led Zeppelin biography When Giants Walked The Earth) are scheduled to appear around 6.30.
After which ABC’s Graeme Hutchinson will be conducting …

 
John Paul Jones gave firm indication that together with Jimmy Page and Jason Bonham, he is ready to partake in a Led Zeppelin tour without Robert Plant.
JPJ appeared at the Manson Guitar Weekend in Exeter and as well as performing took part in a question and answer session.
Talking about the possibility of a tour he said:
“As you probably know, Jimmy, Jason and I are actually rehearsing and we’ve had the odd singer come in and have a bash. As soon as we know — which we don’t — we will …

It’s an easy mistake to make when you have life laundried like I have these past few days.
So there we were at the local Beds County Council rubbish tip with 26 bags of rubbish from the loft to dispose of. It’s quite a maze at our local tip with skips aplenty: man made wood, recycled items, small electrical goods, large electrical goods, newspapers and magazines….now that was the one for us.
So once organized by the not so friendly tip advisor, an anguished cry goes up from the good lady:
“What …