Robert Plant & Gregory Porter will play at Romsdalsmuseet!

Robert Anthony Plant might not need further introduction, but the man who was born in West Bromwich in 1948, and whom many consider to be one of rocks greatest vocalists throughout the times, has through the years constantly sought after different ways to express himself than the one he is most famous for.

Plant is most known as the vocalist and songwriter of legendary Led Zeppelin, with Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones and John Bonham. After a host of albums, now considered rock classics, the band broke up in 1980 following Bonhams death. Since then Plant has released a string of solo-albums, most with a solid rock-expression, but after a while with traces of folk-rock and other genres.

After his comeback as a solo-artist with Dreamland (2002), Plant has truly rediscovered his creative ways and developed an expression that well suits the aging rocker and his voice. Especially since the success Raising Sand (2007) - a GRAMMY-award winning collaboration with bluegrass- and country-singer Alison Krauss, which was hailed by critics and audiences alike - his career has seen a second coming. As such one can perhaps be thankful that he, supposedly, turned down the enormous sums of money offered to reunite Led Zeppelin, and instead focused on his own music.

Because, rather than reunite Led Zeppelin, Plant released yet another solid album last year; Lullaby... and the Ceaseless Roar - a release which has seen high praise from among others The Guardian, MOJO, Pitchfork and Uncut - and which also charted on several "Best of the Year"-lists. The album is a culmination of the collaboration of Plant and his exciting new band The Sensational Space Shifters, and contains an exciting and fresh mixture of folk-rock, roots and blues - and also west-African music, especially through the Gambian musician of the band, Juldeh Camara. You'll also find elements of the almost meditative and heaving groove of so-called desert-blues, a phrase that has been used to describe the music of bands such as Malian Tinariwen.

Robert Plant and The Sensational Space Shifters performed an exclusive concert in Norway to great success at Bergenfest last summer, where they played songs from the then upcoming album Lullaby..., intersped with interpretations of old blues-standards and a sample of the Led Zeppelin-catalogue. Exclusive it will be once again as Robert Plant takes the stage at Romsdalsmuseet om July 16th. We can't wait!