Plant’s new four‑track EP

Robert Plant is using Record Store Day 2026 to do something very specific: put out a new four-song vinyl EP with Saving Grace and Suzi Dian on April 18, while Record Store Day names him its latest Record Store Legend. The release is called *Saving Grace: All That Glitters… with Suzi Dian*, and Record Store Day lists it as a 12-inch exclusive limited to 3,500 copies. (recordstoreday.com) This is not a Led Zeppelin nostalgia package or a greatest-hits reissue. Record Store Day and Plant’s label Nonesuch both describe it as four new studio recordings made by his current group, not a repackaging of old material. (nonesuch.com) The four songs show exactly where Plant has been steering his music lately. Record Store Day says the EP includes the traditional song “Blackest Crow,” Bert Jansch’s “Poison,” Gillian Welch’s “Orphan Girl,” and “She Cried” by Ted Daryll and Greg Richards. (recordstoreday.com) That track list tells you this band’s center of gravity is folk and Americana, not hard rock. Record Store Day UK says the songs were recently recorded for the event and come from the folk and Americana repertoire that Plant and the band have been exploring together. (recordstoreday.co.uk) Saving Grace is the project Plant has been building with singer Suzi Dian and a small band from the English countryside he has repeatedly highlighted in recent releases. Nonesuch says the new EP follows the *Saving Grace* album and keeps the same lineup and musical direction. (nonesuch.com) The award tied to the release is not a random add-on. Record Store Day UK says the Record Store Legend honor is a joint United States and United Kingdom award for artists with a lasting impact on music and a visible commitment to record shops, and it notes Elton John received it in 2017 and Johnny Marr in 2025. (recordstoreday.co.uk) Plant’s record-store connection is part of the pitch here, not just the timing. In Record Store Day’s announcement, he says physical records were always part of his life and framed buying a record as a way of getting closer to what an artist was trying to make. (recordstoreday.co.uk) So the new EP and the award are doing the same job at once. Record Store Day gets a marquee exclusive from a 77-year-old rock figure with deep store-culture credibility, and Plant gets to spotlight the quieter, roots-focused band he is making records with now instead of revisiting the loudest chapter of his catalog. (recordstoreday.com)