For his first album since the Grammy award-winning Raising Sand, recorded with Alison Krauss, Robert Plant returns with a new LP featuring interpretations of Americana anthems. "Band of Joy represented an attempt to create, diversify and celebrate the great dynamics of the music scene in the mid 60s," explains Plant. "I just wanted to bring it back into now." As with his cover of Los Lobos's Angel Dance (above), Band of Joy features renditions of Low's Silver Rider and Monkey, the Kelly Brothers's Falling in Love Again, and the Appalachian folk song Cindy, I'll Marry You Some Day.

Band of Joy is released on 13 September.