The Can't Let Go tour starts June 2nd in Tulsa, Oklahoma and wraps up September 1st in Vail, Colorado.
ROBERT PLANT & ALISON KRAUSS
JD McPHERSON
Sunset Amphitheater
Colorado Springs, CO
SATURDAY, AUGUST 31, 2024
Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater
Vail, CO
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2024
TICKETS ON SALE FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16 AT 10am
in Colorado Springs.
Alison will be taking time out from recording to hit the road, while Plant, who has been doing shows with Saving Grace in England, will put aside going through songs he never released nor finished. He tells Rolling Stone he's "getting excited about it."
He also says he's working on new songs. "I’ve got a Tascam digital recorder, and I sing, and I put the vocals through a guitar pedal, and then I record them on that over there, and it sounds great. Why bother to go to the studio? But I can’t find words. This is a very difficult time to try and wax lyrical out there."
Asked about still touring at 75, Plant has no plans to retire. "The camaraderie, the things that you share up there, and the frailties that you know you’re carrying with you quietly, the exposure of yourself to yourself, is something that I would hate to say goodbye to. I can’t just sit back.
"Out there in the real world, people say to me, 'What about the book?' And I say, 'Are you kidding? What? This is spectacular. Why think about it twice?' This is today. What happened in Schenectady in 1969 is another story. And for me, the continuum must keep going...
"So yeah, I’m going to keep going -- as long as they’ve got effects machines that make me sound good [laughs]. Well, it worked for Elvis! Listen to the compression on his voice on some of those big ballads in ’57."
Both Plant and Alison add that they'd be up for recording a third album following 2007's Raising Sand and 2021's Raise the Roof.