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2010 solo album from the music legend and former Led Zeppelin vocalist, his first album since 2007's six time Grammy Award winning Raising Sand. Band of Joy was recorded in Nashville with a stellar cast of musicians. The album was co-produced by Plant and Nashville legend and guitarist Buddy Miller. As well as Miller, the Band of Joy is made up of multi-instrumentalist Darrell Scott, who provides the mandolin, guitar, accordion, pedal, lap steel and banjo lines, country singer/songwriter Patty Griffin who adds the main vocal foils to Plant's lead parts, while Byron House plays bass and percussion comes from Marco Giovino. This is a Roots Rock record similar to Raising Sand.