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Saving Grace

Robert Plant’s Saving Grace is the first album featuring a new band of distinguished players, which he calls “a song book of the lost and found”.  The genesis of Saving Grace began during the lockdown in “The Shire”, when Plant’s customary wandering was all but forbidden.  While his recent adventures have centred around Nashville, having reunited with Alison Krauss […]

The Queen Of Country Blues: Selected Recordings 1929-53

Lizzie Douglas, otherwise known as Memphis Minnie, was a blues guitarist, singer and songwriter from Mississippi, born in 1897, who ran away from home when she was 13 to start playing on Beale Street in Memphis, Tennessee.She started performing with her second husband Kansas Joe McCoy and they made their first records in 1929 – […]