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NOW TOURING behind their new studio album THE MIGHTY REARRANGER:

Mighty Rearranger (CD, Album) album cover
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Robert Plant And The Strange Sensation ‎– Mighty Rearranger
Label:
Sanctuary Records ‎– SANCD356, Es Paranza Records ‎– SANCD356
Format:
CD, Album
Country:
Europe
Released:
2005
Genre:
Rock
Style:
Classic Rock
Tracklist
1 Another Tribe 3:15
2 Shine It All Around 4:03
3 Freedom Fries 2:52
4 Tin Pan Valley 3:47
5 All The Kings Horses 4:20
6 The Enchanter 5:27
7 Takamba 4:04
8 Dancing In Heaven 4:25
9 Somebody Knocking 3:47
10 Let The Four Winds Blow 4:52
11 Mighty Rearranger 4:25
12.1 Brother Ray 1:26
12.2 Shine It All Around (Remix) 7:30

Credits
Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Bass, Recorded By, Lap Steel Guitar – Skin Tyson*
Bass, Double Bass – Billy Fuller
Design [Sleeve], Illustration – Grahame Baker Smith
Drums, Bendir, Recorded By – Clive Deamer
Electric Guitar, Bendir, Lute [Tehardant], Bass, Lap Steel Guitar – Justin Adams
Keyboards, Programmed By [Electronica], Synthesizer [Moog Bass], Recorded By – John Baggott
Mixed By, Recorded By – Steve Evans
Recorded By – Teo Miller, Tim Oliver
Vocals, Harmonica – Robert Plant
The legacy of Led Zeppelin is a weighty load to haul around. As of this 2005 show, Robert Plant had released the same amount of post-Zep studio albums under his own name as he had with his old band. For his rather belated first live DVD as a solo artist, Plant embraces his past, sort of, by peppering the 11-song, 65-minute set with five rearranged Zeppelin tunes that pay respect to his old band's history while allowing him to escape it. It's a nifty balancing act and even though his heavily percussive version of "No Quarter" which opens the show is dramatic and edgy, it's not something Zeppelin would have concocted. Four other songs originate from Plant's terrific 2005 Mighty Rearranger release and his Strange Sensation band is the same one that appeared on that disc. The five members -- two have worked with Portishead -- are young yet experienced and talented pros who have obviously rehearsed long and hard to become as tight as they are here. Plant looks and sounds inspired, digging into the Zeppelin songs with renewed energy that seems to feed off his backing musicians. The material from the 2005 album the group was touring to support is a taut combination of prog, world, folk, and rock that twists and turns and sometimes shifts to experimental but ultimately stays on terra firma. The Surround Sound is impressive and only the overly busy camera work -- few shots last for more than five seconds and the handheld, angular approach gets old fast -- detracts, if only slightly, from an exciting, stirring, and energetic gig. Two covers -- "Hey Joe" from 2002's Dreamland, and "Girl from the North Country" -- both recorded at the session but clipped from the televised show, appear rather incongruously and are clumsily tacked on as extras after the last tune. If they were edited into the performance, it would have helped the flow, but stitching them on after the credits looks like an afterthought. Still, they are fine performances and well worth including. As is this DVD, especially for Zeppelin fans who don't mind the band's music being altered to, if not exactly update, at least inject it with a new lease on life. The closing "Whole Lotta Love" hews closer to the original and caps a riveting show that proves Robert Plant can revere his early career without being shackled to it.
Strange Sensation (2001–2007)
In 2002, with his then newly formed band Strange Sensation, Plant released a widely acclaimed collection of mostly blues and folk remakes, Dreamland. Contrasting with this lush collection of often relatively obscure remakes, the second album with Strange Sensation, Mighty ReArranger (2005), contains new, original songs. Both have received some of the most favourable reviews of Plant's solo career and four Grammy nominations, two in 2003 and two in 2006.


Plant and Strange Sensation at the Green Man Festival, 2007.
As a former member of Led Zeppelin, along with Page and John Paul Jones, Plant received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005 and the Polar Music Prize in 2006.[39]

From 2001 to 2007, Plant actively toured the US and Europe with Strange Sensation. His sets typically included recent, but not only, solo material and plenty of Led Zeppelin favourites, often with new and expanded arrangements. A DVD titled Soundstage: Robert Plant and Strange Sensation, featuring his Soundstage performance (filmed at the Soundstage studios in Chicago on 16 September 2005), was released in October 2006.

With Strange Sensation's Justin Adams he appeared at the 2003 Festival au Desert held in Essakane in the North of Mali,[40] captured in a French-language documentary film entitled Le Festival au Désert (2004).

On 23 June 2006, Plant was the headliner (backed by Ian Hunter's band) at the Benefit For Arthur Lee concert at New York's Beacon Theatre, a show which raised money for Lee's medical expenses from his bout with leukaemia. Plant and band performed thirteen songs – five by Arthur Lee & Love, five Led Zeppelin songs and three others, including a duet with Ian Hunter. At the show, Plant told the audience of his great admiration for Arthur Lee dating back to the mid-'60s. Lee died of his illness six weeks after the concert.

An expansive box set of his solo work, Nine Lives, was released in November 2006, which expanded all of his albums with various b-sides, demos, and live cuts. It was accompanied by a DVD. All his solo works were re-released with these extra tracks individually.

In 2007, Plant contributed two tracks to the Fats Domino tribute album Goin' Home: A Tribute to Fats Domino, "It Keeps Rainin'" with the Lil' Band o' Gold and "Valley of Tears" with the Soweto Gospel Choir.

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