Robert Plant said in a new interview that the second album he recorded with Band of Joy will “see the light of day” but stopped short of confirming any concrete plans to release it.
Speaking to Classic Rock Magazine for its October 2025 issue, Plant gave a rundown of his current musical projects which included the second Band of Joy album. “It’s right here on my phone,” Plant told the magazine. “It’ll see the light of day,” he added.
Other potential future projects include more music Plant recorded with Alison Krauss, the magazine reported, along with a potential reunion with Plant’s former band The Sensational Space Shifters.
Plant also signalled further music is on the way from Saving Grace. “It’s not finished,” Plant said of the band. “There’s loads more. If I open the trunk of my car, all these songs fall out. Songs recorded, songs not recorded. It’s a trove.”
The history of Band of Joy Volume 2
It seems the second Band of Joy album is largely complete and ready to release. Two songs from the album, “Charlie Patton Highway (Turn It Up – Part 1)” and “47 Roses” have already been released.
Last month, LedZepNews revealed the names of every song on the album after we discovered US copyright filings made in 2013.
Plant seems to have come close to releasing the second Band of Joy album in 2020. A second Band of Joy album, titled Band of Joy Volume 2, was announced through Plant’s website in 2020 which said the album was “soon to be released”.
Speaking to BBC Radio 6 Music later in 2020, Plant explained that “Charlie Patton Highway (Turn It Up – Part 1)”, which was released that year, “originates in Buddy Miller’s downstairs front room.”
“Buddy Miller is a really great friend of mine and a great producer and he played with us on the Raising Sand tour with Alison Krauss and T Bone [Burnett]. He’s a very renowned Grammy-winning producer and arranger and makes fantastic records with his wife Julie,” he added. “I had a group called the Band Of Joy which we created after the Raising Sand tour had finished and Patty Griffin joined us and we had this amazing tour and amazing songs that we recorded.”
“And at the end of that tour, at the end of the Band Of Joy tour, Patty went off to work her album American Kid and Buddy and I started creating a Band Of Joy 2 and this was one of the things that we developed along the way,” he explained. “It’s just the three of us. There’s Buddy, Marco Giovino on drums and myself and it’s one of about 13 pieces from that session that is hidden away in my cupboard.”
However, plans to release the second Band of Joy album seem to have been abandoned after 2020. When asked about the album by Mojo Magazine in 2021, Plant reportedly “winces at the notion of reconvening to complete it.”
A glimmer of hope came in 2022, however, when an email sent to subscribers of Plant’s official mailing list said that “during and around all the events this year, RP has been busy working in the studio refining new work from the Honeydrippers collection and reviewing the progress that was made with Band of Joy Vol 2″.
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