What’s Next for Band of Joy?

Enjoying their critically acclaimed tour, Robert Plant and the Band of Joy are playing predominantly music from their self titled album. Each of those songs is a cover version, an interpretation of someone else’s music.

The question Plant fans always have in the back of their mind: what’s next for Robert Plant? In an interview with The Pulse of Radio Plant hinted new, original music is coming from the Band of Joy:

We’re talking, we have to write songs now. It’s all very well celebrating other people’s song writing… But we’ve got to head that way soon.

Getting excited about what Robert Plant is going to do down the road is a fools bet, in this case possibly more so than usual. In a Rolling Stone interview, released just two weeks ago, Plant says he’s done song writing:

I’ve kind of given up writing. All my writing is sort of meandering. The last time I picked up a pen was when Tony Blair became a Roman Catholic.

In the same article Plant talks about recording sessions with Alison Krauss in 2009, the follow up to Grammy winning Raising Sand. “The sound just wasn’t there,” Plant notes, explaining why the sessions didn’t result in another album.

Led Zeppelin fans who were anticipating a reunion in 2008 will recall Plant at times suggested a reunion could happen, and certainly Jimmy Page and Jason Bonham anticipated that it would happen.

Which is to say that pinpointing what’s next for Robert Plant can be a moving target, even, I have grown to suspect, for Robert Plant. Is the Band of Joy going to write new material, or is Robert Plant done writing? Nobody knows, but time will tell.