New Song: Robert Plant & Saving Grace Release “Two Coats” From Upcoming EP ‘All That Glitters’

Robert Plant and his current collaborators Saving Grace (featuring Suzi Dian, vocals; Oli Jefferson, drums; Tony Kelsey, guitars; Barney Morse-Brown, cello; Matt Worley, guitar/banjo) have released a new song today “Two Coats” that was written by bluegrass legend Ralph Stanley.

The new song is from an upcoming EP, All That Glitters, that should see release in early October. Actually in the “King Arthur,” J.R.R. Tolkien, Middle Earth speak that Plant seems so fond of, I should say this is a “once and future” EP.

All That Glitters was originally released in vinyl form for the melee that is Record Store Day this past April. I went down to my local Indie record store and by the time I got into the “rugby scrum” inside the store, All That Glitters (among other targets I had in mind) was long gone. I still ended up with the Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers Live At The Paradise Rock Club 1978, so it wasn’t a total bust.

From what I’ve been able to glean from the internet, Plant and Saving Grace have been working on a follow-up to Saving Grace but rather than wait until that’s done, Plant wanted to expand the material they had released to enhance their live performances as they’re currently on tour.

As an aside, I have tickets to see him a week from Saturday and I can hardly contain myself… but I’m off topic here. I haven’t seen him since the Carry Fire tour and that was in 2017.

The upcoming release of All That Glitters will likely not include vinyl, since they only released 3500 vinyl copies for RSD but I’m not sure about that yet. They like that RSD-only “cache.” Likely the EP will be streaming, download and maybe CD? I’m hoping for vinyl so we’ll have to see what we can learn before early October.

Obviously, the phrase “all that glitters,” from the original Shakespeare line “all that glitters is not gold,” is also a reference – or as the kids say, an “Easter egg” – to a little ditty Plant’s original band did called “Stairway To Heaven.” That Led Zeppelin song’s first line was “There’s a lady who’s sure, all that glitters is gold.”

The new song, “Two Coats,” as mentioned written by Ralph Stanley no less, is in that same folky, rootsy vein that their 2025 album Saving Grace was. Plant and Dian harmonize perhaps better than anybody other than, well, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss.

I really like this song, but I’m a Plant fanatic. It’s very rootsy and low key. It’s Plant/Dian’s intertwined voices front and center where they should be, accompanied by (what sounds like) a mandolin and some accordion(?). It’s got a real heartfelt vibe that I can’t quite put my finger on. It makes me feel like I’m in a coffee house in the 70s.

Here’s a sample:

I really dig the way Plant is indulging the folk side of his persona. He’s like Neil Young, one part acoustic, one part rocker. He doesn’t do much “rocking” these days but the intensity he brings to this folk music is riveting and dare I say, kinda rocks.

As a Plant devotee, I’d have liked to hear some original material from this outfit but they seem to be killing it with these rootsy covers. I’ll join Plant on whatever misty mountain hop journey he wants to take me on. He no longer has that banshee wail of his early days but his voice is surprisingly in tact and that’s worth listening to.

I can’t wait to hear this one live. These days are pretty dark and this song is a ray of light that we all need right now. Enjoy! Cheers!