Overview
- Plant performed Thursday to a full house at Boston’s Boch Center Shubert Theatre on the tour billed as Robert Plant’s Saving Grace, named for his current album and band.
- Sharing the stage with Suzi Dian, Matt Worley, Tony Kelsey, Barney Morse-Brown, and Oli Jefferson, Plant repeatedly ceded the spotlight to emphasize the ensemble.
- The repertoire mixed new material with covers by Blind Willie Johnson, Low, Neil Young, and Moby Grape, alongside reimagined traditional songs.
- Selective Led Zeppelin nods—Ramble On, Four Sticks, Friends, and an encore weaving Gallows Pole with Black Dog—were arranged to fit the band’s acoustic-forward sound.
- The music drew on American roots forms and non-Western colors from the Mediterranean, Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia, delivered through cello, banjo, accordion, and subtle percussion.