Originally published in East Valley Tribune
By Paul Giblin, Tribune

Rock ’n’ roll legend Robert Plant is giving a whole lotta loot to a Carefree-based charitable organization that works in west Africa. ||Continue reading||

Originally appeared in the Star Online eCentral (Malaysia)
by SUJESH PAVITHRAN

ROBERT Plant appears to have found his second wind as he inches towards the big six (he turns 57 this month). After a relatively mild decade in the 1990s, rounded up by revisiting his glory days with Jimmy Page on 1998’s Walking into Clarksdale, the former Led Zeppelin frontman decided it was time to explore new musical vistas. He returned strongly with 2001’s Dreamland, on which he trekked across some unusual terrain, while holding on to that familiar swagger. A two-CD compilation followed in late 2003, Sixty Six to Timbuktu, which allowed fans to examine Plant’s solo career, from the dreamy days of The Honeydrippers to the harder edge of the early 1990s. ||Continue reading||

Originally published in Santa Barbara Independent Online
Robert Plant and the Strange Sensation. At the Santa Barbara Bowl, Saturday, July 23.
Reviewed by Zeb Norris

Plant and the Strange Sensation took the stage whacking Middle Eastern percussion and grinning widely as their ruckus morphed into the disturbingly spooky Led Zeppelin song “No Quarter.” Plant is of course the former lead singer for Zeppelin. Reviled by the music press in their early days, they became one of the most successful and influential bands in the history of rock. To me, even if he had done nothing since then, Plant’s powerhouse banshee wails with Zeppelin would still make him rock’s greatest vocalist. He could easily make hundreds of millions of dollars by re-forming Zeppelin, but instead he has explored new modes of expression with deft musical intelligence. ||Continue reading||