Robert Plant-Band of Joy Tour-Houston


Man, I really had high expectations for his swing thru Houston last night but sadly I found the performance rather ho-hum.. The few LZ tunes chosen were played out as new versions of. The song selection was a mix of some new material, Robert Plant/Allison Kraus stuff and not enough LZ tunes.. Their were flashes of Plant seemingly ready to break out and rock but his performance was restrained.
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We attended the last Page/Plant tour & the recent tour with Alison Krause. Both were stunning & spectacular so our expectations might have been a little unrealistic. The Band of Joy was enjoyable but really pretty low key and I hate to use this word but maybe a little uninspired. He just didn't seem to have quite the fire I hoped to see. According to Rolling Stone a second venture with Krause recently fell apart because the magic wasn't there. I thought the washboard
thing seemed a little silly. He needs to get back to what the Brits do best....ripping off American blues artists to make some of the worlds best rock & roll before it's too late.
I gotta update this post. My wife bought the Band of Joy disc at Costco for 10.00 & I like it way more than the concert.
I was on vacation in Montana & saw them perform on the Today show & in that controlled environment they looked & sounded
great. Possibly their live gigs are gelling better after being out there for a while. Also the venue I saw them in had horrible acoustics.
Buddy Miller is a phenomenal talent, adding beautiful haunting guitar licks.
Robert Plant can continue to pretend he's Woody Guthrie
all he wants. This is a very good record.