Robert Plant / Band Of Joy
Artist Robert Plant
Album Title: Band Of Joy
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Primary Genre Folk: Contemporary Folk
Format CD
Released 09/13/2010
Label Es Paranza Records
Catalog No 11661-9099-2
Bar Code No 0 11661 90992 2
Packaging Cardboard
Tracks
1. Angel Dance (3:49)
2. House Of Cards (3:13)
3. Central Two-O-Nine (2:49)
4. Silver Rider (6:05)
5. You Can't Buy My Love (3:10)
6. Falling In Love Again (3:37)
7. The Only Sound That Matters (3:44)
8. Monkey (4:57)
9. Cindy, I'll Marry You Someday (3:36)
10. Harm's Swift Way (4:18)
11. Satan Your Kingdom Must Come Down (4:12)
12. Even This Shall Pass Away (4:02)
Date Acquired 11/13/2010
Personal Rating
Acquired from Amazon
Purchase Price 11.88

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Notes

Acoustic Guitar, Mandolin, Banjo, Accordion, Pedal Steel Guitar, Lap Steel Guitar, Mandolin [Octave] – Darrell Scott
Backing Vocals – Bekka Bramlett (tracks: 1, 2), Buddy Miller (tracks: 2, 3, 6), Darrell Scott (tracks: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 10, 11), Marco Giovino (tracks: 3), Patty Griffin (tracks: 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 10, 11), Robert Plant (tracks: 1, 2, 3, 5, 11)
Bass – Byron House
Drums, Percussion – Marco Giovino
Electric Guitar, Baritone Guitar, 6-String Bass, Mandoguitar – Buddy Miller
Producer – Buddy Miller, Robert Plant
Vocals – Patty Griffin
Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Trolcharm Limited
Copyright © – Trolcharm Limited
Manufactured By – Concord Music Group, Inc.
Distributed By – Concord Music Group, Inc.
Glass Mastered At – Sony DADC – DIDX-474852

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DR7    -0.11 dB    -7.35 dB   08 - Monkey.flac              
DR7    -0.11 dB    -9.56 dB   09 - Cindy, I'll Marry You Someday.flac
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DR7    -0.11 dB    -9.68 dB   11 - Satan Your Kingdom Must Come Down.flac
DR8    -0.11 dB  -10.88 dB   12 - Even This Shall Pass Away.flac
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Official DR Value: DR7
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Reviews
All Music Guide Review:

Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Band of Joy was the name of Robert Plant’s Black Country psychedelic folk group of the late ‘60s and his revival of its name and spirit in 2010 is of no small significance. Certainly, it’s an explicit suggestion that Plant is getting back to his roots, which is true to an extent: the original Band of Joy was unrecorded outside of a handful of demos, so there is no indication of whether this 2010 incarnation sounds anything at all like the ‘60s band but the communal vibe that pulsates throughout this album hearkens back to the age of hippies as much as it is an outgrowth of Raising Sand, Plant’s striking duet album with Alison Krauss. Such blurred borders are commonplace on Band of Joy, where American and English folk meld, where the secular and sacred walk hand in hand, where the past is not past and the present is not rootless. Assisted by co-producer Buddy Miller and a band of roots iconoclasts highlighted by harmonist Patty Griffin, Plant finds fiercely original music within other people’s songs, nabbing two songs from slow-core stalwarts Low, cherry-picking relative obscurities from Richard & Linda Thompson and Los Lobos, digging back to find forgotten songs from the heyday of honky tonk and traditional folk tunes not often sung. Some of these songs feel like they’ve been around forever and some feel fresh, but not in conventional ways: Low’s “Silver Rider” and “Monkey” feel like ancient, unearthed backwoods laments and the riotous “You Can’t Buy My Love” feels as if it was written yesterday. Much of the wonder of Band of Joy lies in these inventive interpretations but the magic lies in the performances themselves. Never as austere as the clean, tasteful impressionism of Raising Sand, Band of Joy is bold and messy, teeming with life to its very core. It’s as a joyous a record as you’ll ever hear, a testament that the power of music lies not in its writing but in its performance.
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