Photo by Mike Prior
In an exclusive interview with Dave Lewis for the forthcoming TBL magazine, Glenn Hughes reveals that the new Black Country Communion album has a darker theme lyrically:
‘’For me the lyrics are darker. As usual I began with nothing but a blank canvas. After we recorded the last song for the first album which was Too Late For the Sun, the tank was empty.  So I am upstairs in my studio, the old lady’s sleeping, the dogs are downstairs, and the house was quiet. That was when I …

In an exclusive interview for the forthcoming issue of the Tight But Loose magazine, Jason Bonham talked to Dave Lewis about the new Black Country Communion album, the JBLZE, memories of the 02 and his involvement with Paul Rodgers.
Talking about the new recording of the BCC album he said ‘’The plan was to have two albums out before we did a full tour. What I was pleased about is that we got to do the two gigs in the UK right before we were due to go back in the …

Robert Plant & The Band Of Joy are confirmed to appear at the Big Chill Festival held at Eastnor Castle Deer Park in Herefordshire.
The Band Of Joy are scheduled for the Deer Park Stage as second on the bill to Rodrigo Y Gabriela on the Sunday August 7th of the weekend event. Also appearing on the bill are Warpaint, Steel Pulse, Femi Kuti & The Positive Force,  Norman Jay and About Group.
For further details and ticket arrangements see link at
http://www.bigchill.net/festival/home/
 

The new issue of the Tight But Loose magazine is OUT NOW.
Here’s a review from the Underground Uprising Zep site
Tight But Loose Issue 29
The issue of every new release of Tight But Loose from the highly elequent pen of Dave Lewis is always an event to be savoured. And this latest release is no exception. In fact I am of the opinion that this is one of the very best ever issues of this venerable organ, as they say in Private Eye! There are so many extremely interesting articles crammed …

With new band, Robert Plant brings joy to Milwaukee
Walk into the Riverside Theatre midway through Monday night’s show without any preconceptions, and you might have thought you were seeing a completely different band. As the bear-like singer-songwriter Darrell Scott took lead vocals, Grammy-winning singer Patti Griffin contributed mesmerizing backing vocals as guitarist Buddy Miller pounded away on his axe.
The music was so enjoyable, it might have taken a minute for your eyes to settle on the leonine man at the back of the stage, and realized you were in the …

Robert Plant & The Band of Joy set Saturday at the Auditorium Theatre
1. Black Dog
2. Down to the Sea
3. Angel Dance
4. Black Country Woman
5. House of Cards
6. Monkey
7. Somewhere Trouble Don’t Go (Buddy Miller vocal)
8. Silver Rider
9. A Satisfied Mind (Darrell Scott vocal)
10. Satan Your Kingdom Must Come Down
11. Twelve Gates to the City/Wade in the Water/In My Time of Dying
12. Patty Griffin song
13. Please Read the Letter
14. Houses of the Holy
15. Ramble On
Encore:
16. Tangerine
17. Harm’s Swift Way
18. A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall
Whether singing blues, folk or Led Zeppelin, …

John Paul Jones will be performing at the forthcoming Cheltenham Jazz Festival as  part of Spin Marvel, an electronic jazz group. The band  includes  Loose Tubes drummer Martin France, celebrated trumpeter Nils Petter Molvaer and Terje Evensen on live elctronics. JPJ completes the line up on bass guitar. The group’s appearance is on Saturday  April 30th at 5:15pm in the main arena.
See link at www.cheltenhamfestivals.com

Robert Plant and The Band Of Joy commence their US tour tonight in Louisville – if you are attending any of the forthcoming  shows – …

Robert Plant and Band of Joy rock the Louisville Palace
There are moments during a Robert Plant and Band of Joy show where you sink into the music and actually forget for a while that the Robert Plant is on stage. Band of Joy is so much its own thing, and so impressive, that even Plant’s epochal history recedes.
But then they start to play “Ramble On,” and there’s no fighting “Ramble On.”
Among the many highlights at Friday’s sold-out Band of Joy show at the Louisville Palace, there can be no downplaying …

Black Country Communion, featuring the talents of bassist/vocalist Glenn Hughes, blues rock guitarist/vocalist Joe Bonamassa, drummer Jason Bonham, and keyboardist Derek Sherinian, have released the artwork for their much-anticipated second album “2”. The album will be released in the UK and Europe on June 13th by Mascot Records and in America on June 14th by J&R Adventures.
Tracklisting for the new album is as follows: The Outsider, Man In The Middle, I Can See Your Sprit, The Battle For Hadrians Wall, Save Me, Cold, Smokestack Woman, Faithless, An Ordinary Son, Little …

Jason Bonham has announced a May tour in the USA with the Led Zeppelin Experience. The highly acclaimed tribute show to his father, John Bonham, was staged  last year to rave review across America. Jason said of the Experience.  “I never imagined that the tour would have received the overwhelmingly positive reactions that it did, It’s been beyond my wildest dreams to come out represent my family, my father and the music of Led Zeppelin”
As with last year, Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin Experience feature James Dylan on lead vocals, Tony …