Published: September 14, 2026 · 12:53 AM EDT
The four-song EP arrives October 9 after its Record Store Day vinyl release, as Plant receives an Americana Lifetime Achievement Award and returns to U.S. stages with Saving Grace
Robert Plant is extending the life of Saving Grace with a four-song EP that connects his current roots-music chapter with material previously available only as a physical Record Store Day release.
Saving Grace: All That Glitters... will be released digitally on October 9, 2026 through Nonesuch Records. The EP was originally issued on vinyl for Record Store Day 2026 and features Plant alongside vocalist Suzi Dian and the Saving Grace band.
For the former Led Zeppelin singer, the release continues a musical direction increasingly centered on folk, Americana, blues, gospel and traditional song rather than an attempt to recreate his earlier rock catalog.
ALL THAT GLITTERS... BRINGS FOUR SONGS TO DIGITAL PLATFORMS
The EP contains four tracks:
01. The Blackest Crow
02. Orphan Girl
03. Two Coats
04. Poison
“The Blackest Crow” and “Two Coats” are traditional songs arranged by Robert Plant and Saving Grace, while “Orphan Girl” was written by Gillian Welch and “Poison” by Bert Jansch.
“Two Coats” has been released ahead of the digital EP together with an official video.
The four recordings follow the Saving Grace album, released in 2025, which established Plant's current collaboration with Dian and musicians Oli Jefferson, Tony Kelsey, Matt Worley and Barney Morse-Brown.
Saving Grace developed from sessions near Plant's home on the Welsh borderlands beginning in 2019.
Rather than starting as a major-label supergroup project, the musicians experimented together, performed low-profile shows and eventually recorded informally in barns and outdoor settings. The group draws from folk, blues, gospel, country and Americana traditions, allowing Plant to continue the roots-music exploration that has repeatedly appeared throughout his post-Led Zeppelin career. That history also makes All That Glitters... more than four leftovers from an album campaign.
Its traditional material and reinterpretations extend the musical conversation behind Saving Grace while moving a Record Store Day release from a comparatively limited physical format into worldwide digital circulation.
The EP arrives during another significant period in Plant's career. On September 16, the Americana Music Association will present him with a Lifetime Achievement Award during its 25th annual Americana Honors & Awards at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium.
The organization specifically cited Plant's long relationship with blues, folk, country and gospel, as well as his work with Alison Krauss, Band of Joy and Saving Grace.
Rockum recently documented another major 2026 honoree from the same ceremony, Dolly Parton.
Read: Dolly Parton To Receive Americana Music Association Lifetime Achievement Award
For Plant, the recognition places his current music inside a much longer post-Zeppelin story rather than treating Saving Grace as a temporary side project.
Two days after the Nashville ceremony, Robert Plant, Saving Grace and Suzi Dian begin the Up the Sharp End U.S. tour. The run takes place from September 18 through October 15, with dates in cities including St. Louis, Kansas City, Santa Fe, San Diego, San Francisco, Sacramento, Minneapolis and Chicago.
Rosie Flores will appear as special guest throughout the tour.
The October 9 digital release of All That Glitters... therefore arrives while Plant is actively touring the United States, giving the EP a second life beyond its Record Store Day vinyl origins.
Robert Plant's career after Led Zeppelin has never followed a straight line. Rather than spending decades reproducing the sound that made him famous, he has repeatedly moved toward older musical traditions, unexpected collaborators and songs whose histories sometimes predate rock itself.
Saving Grace: All That Glitters... fits naturally into that pattern.
It began as a physical Record Store Day release and now reaches digital platforms while Plant receives one of Americana music's major career honors and returns to American stages. More than five decades after Led Zeppelin made Robert Plant one of rock's defining voices, his current work remains driven by the same thing that shaped much of his career afterward: curiosity about where songs came from and where they can still go.
Written by Gino Alache – Music Journalist
IMAGE CREDIT: Nonesuch Records
Watch Robert Plant and Saving Grace’s official “Two Coats” video below:
