Robert Plant Working On New Album

Former Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant has revealed details of a new project with country singer Alison Krauss.

The pair teamed up for last year's album 'Raising Sand'. A spectacular success, the album was recorded in Nashville and its wonderful mix of country and rock styles has been praised by critics, even bagging a few Grammy nominations.

The pair are apparently working on new material, with Robert Plant stating the pair were in "pre-production".

In an interview with Absolute Radio the singer confirmed "we’ve got a whole bunch of songs and we’re just saying ‘does that work? Does this work?' Just trying it out again."

The pair first met some years ago with Plant stating "we’d met a few years prior and we’d performed at a beautiful event to celebrate the music of Leadbelly. It was a beautiful evening, and Alison had the patience and virtue to harmonise with my meandering vocals. We had a lot of fun out of it and we said we’d try and do something with it at a future date.”

Plant briefly discussed Led Zeppelin in light of his overall career. "I don't think I've ever had a career. I think when Led Zeppelin... when we lost John in 1980, I was desperate to not reinstate but do something for myself, free from the kind of shackles of people's expectations."

Of the re-union rumours Plant said "the reason that it stopped was because we were incomplete. We've been incomplete now for 28 years, and no matter what you do, you have to really guard the discretion of what you've done in the past and make sure that you have all the reasons in the right place to be able to do something with absolute, total conviction."