The new Scott Matthews album ‘Elsewhere’ is released on May 25. It includes a superb duet with Robert Plant on the track ‘12 Harps.’
Visit  http://www.scottmatthewsmusic.co.uk/ for more information.

Robert Plant appeared very briefly (waving to the camera) on the BBC’s F1 coverage of the Bahrain Grand Prix during co-commentator Martin Brundle’s pre-race ‘gridwalk’ interviews.  Brundle seems to be a fan, mentioning Zep and “Stairway to Heaven”, and looked disappointed as he informed us Robert had decided he would rather not talk on-camera.  Brundle moved on to a quick chat with Eric Clapton who said he’d tried his best to get Robert to agree to an interview.
Reported by Nick Kho

Robert’s appearance at the Abu Dhabi Womad Festival included a mix of cover material and Zep favourites. Together with Justin Adams and Juldeh Camara they performed versions of Black Dog, Win My Train Fare Home, Leadbelly’s and Dylan’s Corina Corina plus Whole Lotta Love and Rock And Roll.

For a review see link at
http://www.thenational.ae/article/20090427/ART/704269984/-1/OPINION
To view a performance of Win My Train Fare Home go to
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAl0b6869gs

For a first hand review of the show go to the TBL Tour Watch Robert Plant pages.

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Really enjoyed the show. The last time my wife and I together saw Robert was at Knebworth in 1979. We were not at the front then but we were on the beach in Abu Dhabi. The show was relaxed and the crowd were not. They were out to see Mr Plant and they were not disappointed. Some of the Middle Eastern guys knew the words and sang to Rock and Roll. The encore started with Whole Lotta Love and went into something Arabic which they understood and I did not. …

It has been announced that Robert Plant is to join forces with Strange Sensation guitarist Justin Adams and the West African riti (a one-string violin) master Juldeh Camara for the finale of the three day Womad Festival in Abu Dhabi. Around 50,000 people are expected to attend each of the free Womad concerts, which will take place on the Corniche public beach from April 23 to April 25.
The signing of Plant is regarded as a coup for the Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage (Adach) and for Womad, …

Robert Plant appears on a track on the new album by Buddy and Julie Miller titled Written in Chalk. What You Gonna Do Leroy has Robert trading vocals with Buddy accompanied by fellow band mates Jay Bellerose on drums, Dennis Crouch on bass and Stuart Duncan on fiddle plus Gurf Morlix on lap steel. The track was recorded in a dressing room during the Raising Sand tour. It can be downloaded via itunes. Buddy Miller is currently recuperating from open heart surgery.

Rolling Stone reports that Robert and Alison are in the studio working on the follow up to the five times Grammy winning Raising Sand album. It was reported that Raising Sand had a 700% sales increase following the Grammy success climbing back to number two on the Billboard US chart. In the UK the album is set to resurge on the UK chart following a national TV advertising campaign.

Robert Plant and Alison Krauss scooped a total of five Grammy awards at the 51st ceremony in Los Angeles.
Their album Raising Sand was voted Album of the Year and Best Contemporary Folk/Americana album, the track Please Read The Letter was Record of the Year, Killing The Blues Best Country Collaboration with vocals and Rich Woman was voted Best Pop Collaboration with vocals.

Robert Plant & Alison Krauss have been added to be the list of performers at the 51st annual Grammy Awards which will be held February 8 at Staples Center in Los Angeles. The event is being screened at 9pm on ITV2 in the UK on February 9th.
In an interview with Ben Jones on Absolute Radio Robert reveled his thoughts on a Led Zeppelin reunion.