Robert Plant with Saving Grace and Suzi Dian - Up the Sharp End

On Saving Grace, which was six years in the making, Plant and this group of distinguished musicians--vocalist Suzi Dian, drummer Oli Jefferson, guitarist Tony Kelsey, banjo and string player Matt Worley, and cellist Barney Morse-Brown--explore the evolution of roots music both vintage and modern. The band members were drawn together by a shared love of roots music--blues, folk, gospel, country, and the sounds that lay in between. Saving Grace began at Plant's home on the Welsh borderlands in 2019; this new collective of like-minded collaborators had been experimenting for barely a year, even serving as an unheralded opening act on a handful of dates for Fairport Convention, when the pandemic intervened and any formal plans were temporarily shelved.