Robert Plant’s new album, Carry Fire, will be released by Nonesuch/Warner
Bros. Records on Friday, October 13, 2017. Carry Fire is available now for
pre-order at all digital music retailers and via nonesuch.com and
robertplant.com with an instant download of the album’s first track, “The
May Queen.” Pre-orders via nonesuch.com and robertplant.com also include an
exclusive limited-edition print featuring a beautiful image from the
album art.
Carry Fire, his eleventh solo album and first full-length release since
2014’s acclaimed lullaby and…The Ceaseless Roar, was produced by Plant in
the west of England and Wales, at Top Cat studio in Box, Wiltshire with
additional recordings at Real World and Rockfield studios. As with lullaby,
Plant is accompanied by The Sensational Space Shifters: John Baggott on
keyboards, moog, loops, percussion, drums, brass arrangement, t’bal, snare
drum, slide guitar, piano, electric piano, bendir; Justin Adams on guitar,
acoustic guitar, oud, E-bow quartet, percussion, snare drum, tambourine; Dave
Smith on bendir, tambourine, djembe, drum kit; and Liam “Skin” Tyson on
dobro, guitar, acoustic guitar, pedal steel, twelve-string.
Plant and the Space Shifters are also joined on Carry Fire by a number of
special guests. Chrissie Hynde joins Plant on the duet “Bluebirds Over The
Mountain” (written by rockabilly legend Ersel Hickey and later recorded by
both Richie Valens and The Beach Boys). Albanian cellist Redi Hasa performs on
three tracks, as does the celebrated Seth Lakeman on viola and fiddle.
Plant and the Space Shifters (which now includes Lakeman) will celebrate
Carry Fire’s release by beginning a world tour in November 2017 starting in
UK & Ireland and touring all corners of globe from thereon. Dates will be
announced soon; for updates, please visit www.robertplant.com.
Plant and the band spent two years on the road together supporting lullaby
and…The Ceaseless Roar, their unique sound and vision ultimately evolving into
something even more creative and powerful.