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The 2024 Outlaw Music Festival Tour launched without its leader Willie Nelson on Friday night in Alpharetta, Georgia, but the show went on featuring sets by Bob Dylan, Robert Plant, Alison Krauss and Celisse. In place of Nelson’s own set, his son’s band Lukas Nelson and the Family Band performed instead, with a guest appearance by Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks. Plant and Krauss performed many of their usual selections, including Led Zeppelin‘s “Rock and Roll” and “The Battle of Evermore,” plus “When the Levee Breaks,” which they recently officially released. Dylan, on the other hand, brought...
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Willie Nelson will miss the opening run of shows on the 2024 Outlaw Music Festival Tour due to an unspecified illness. The 91-year-old country icon was slated to kick off the tour on Friday night (June 21) at the Ameris Bank Amphitheatre in Alpharetta, Ga., alongside Bob Dylan, Robert Plant and Allison Krauss and Celisse. However, he won’t be able to make the first weekend of shows on “doctor’s orders,” according to a post on his social media. Nelson’s team shared the following message on Friday afternoon: We regret to inform you that Willie Nelson is not feeling well, and per doctor’s orders,...
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Lenny Kravitz has detailed an embarrassing scolding he received courtesy of Robert Plant. It was 1993, and the two rockers were on the road together. Kravitz was especially excited to be working alongside one of his idols. “Led Zeppelin means everything to me, Robert means everything to me, as a voice, as a writer, as a force,” Kravitz recalled, looking back on the experience during a recent conversation with Classic Rock. “We became friendly. During this time I was very serious. Sound is very important to me, and when the sound is not right it drives me mad.” On one day in particular, Kravitz...
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On Sunday, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss opened their 2024 tour with a moving performance in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Over more than 15 years of collaboration, Plant and Krauss have enjoyed critical and commercial success. Their 2007 album, Raising Sand, went platinum and earned the duo five Grammy Awards, including Album and Record of the Year. Their second collaborative album, Raise the Roof, was released in 2021. Again, it was met with wide acclaim, earning the duo another three Grammy nominations. READ MORE: 25 Greatest Duos in Rock History As to be expected, material from both albums took up the...
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Robert Plant feels "estranged" from 'Stairway To Heaven'. The 74-year-old musician thinks it is only right Led Zeppelin's most famous song has had "its own life" and believes it now belongs to other people more than his former band. He told Vulture's 'Superlative' series: "We all stood back at the end of the sessions, reeling from the transitions throughout the song. "But 'Stairway to Heaven' has its own life. Later I often felt estranged. "It began intimate and vulnerable and sincere, and then the years carried on. It was no longer ours and neither should it be. "Now it’s out there driving pe...
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Robert Plant turned down a role in 'Game of Thrones'. The Led Zeppelin frontman, 73, has claimed he rejected a cameo in the TV adaptation of George R.R. Martin's award-winning fantasy saga because he doesn't want to be "typecast". Asked if he has seen the HBO show on Apple Music 1’s 'The Strombo Show', he replied: “No. “I got offered a part in that.” On why he declined, he said: “I don’t want to get typecast. “I started that s***.” He went on: “Go back to ‘Immigrant Song’ and Led Zeppelin being part of cultural exchange in Iceland with the Icelandic government. So they didn’t know what they’d ...
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Robert Plant "got really old" after his son died. The 'Whole Lotta Love' hitmaker and his then-wife Maureen Wilson lost five-year-old Karac in 1977 after the youngster contracted a stomach virus and he admitted the tragedy stopped him worrying about ageing. He said: “I think I got really old when I was 29, when we as a family lost the key man. "So many parts of our being, exuberance, optimism and physicality and the whole wear and tear of life has fluctuating time periods where it plays different cards for you. "What I try and do to keep the Grim Reaper at bay is to be around people who are fu...
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