{"id":485,"date":"2010-09-12T11:38:20","date_gmt":"2010-09-12T11:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/?p=485"},"modified":"2010-09-16T09:28:05","modified_gmt":"2010-09-16T09:28:05","slug":"band-of-joy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/band-of-joy\/","title":{"rendered":"Band of Joy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/robert_plant_band_of_joy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-487\" title=\"robert_plant_band_of_joy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/robert_plant_band_of_joy-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/robert_plant_band_of_joy-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/robert_plant_band_of_joy.jpg 235w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d uploaded two songs to write a blog post about today, but figured without getting hold of the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Band-Joy-Digipack-Robert-Plant\/dp\/B003YC2T1O\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=music&amp;qid=1284290900&amp;sr=1-1\">Robert Plant album<\/a>, which is officially released tomorrow. I&#8217;m on my third play and it&#8217;s magnificent, far stronger than its very enjoyable predecessor, <em>Raising Sand<\/em>, fully deserving of the five star review in Friday&#8217;s Guardian. I&#8217;ve already written at length <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/2007\/04\/leaving-led-zeppelin\/\">here<\/a> about my falling out with Led Zeppelin, so I won&#8217;t revisit those recollections. What I will say is that music as good as this &#8211; drawing on the last fifty years and named after Plant&#8217;s pre-Zep group, Band of Joy &#8211; completely justifies his decision not to get on the reunion past glories gravy train. Here&#8217;s one of the bluesier cuts, a <span><span>Lightnin&#8217; Hopkins number<\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/03-Central-Two-O-Nine.mp3\">Robert Plant &#8211; Central Two O Nine<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d uploaded two songs to write a blog post about today, but figured without getting hold of the new Robert Plant album, which is officially released tomorrow. I&#8217;m on my third play and it&#8217;s magnificent, far stronger than its very enjoyable predecessor, Raising Sand, fully deserving of the five star review in Friday&#8217;s Guardian. I&#8217;ve already written at length here about my falling out with Led Zeppelin, so I won&#8217;t revisit those recollections. What I will say is that music as good as this &#8211; drawing on the last fifty years and named after Plant&#8217;s pre-Zep group, Band of Joy &#8211; completely justifies his decision not to get on the reunion past glories gravy train. Here&#8217;s one of the bluesier cuts, a Lightnin&#8217; Hopkins number.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-songs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":489,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions\/489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}