"A Tribute To Led Zeppelin", Beth Hart's new album

 Beth Hart's new album "A Tribute To Led Zeppelin" is due for release in February 2022.

When someone becomes aware that Beth was recording a tribute album, he naturally thinks it would most likely be a tribute to Billie Holiday, Etta James, or Nina Simone. What he doesn't expects is A Tribute To Led Zeppelin. For Beth to record an album of Zeppelin songs in her own unique style, well... let’s just say it is more than surprising. So, what was the reason behind it?

As she says: 

"I didn’t choose to do it initially. Rob Cavello was working on something else which happened to be a full orchestra playing Led Zeppelin songs, with no singer, just full-on orchestration. We were working on my album, 'War In My Mind’, and he said, I’ve got this arrangement for Whole Lotta Love and I know you know how to sing it. So, after we’d pretty much done for the day, we were in the control room, I put on the phones and set it down. Then it was over, simple as that. Dave Wolfe told me, ‘Rob wants you to sing the album.’ I said, absolutely not, don’t wanna do it. A) I’m a girl; B) I don’t wanna get shot by a die-hard Led Zeppelin fan. I didn’t have the rage that I used to have. And you need rage to pull something like this off.

I didn’t grow up listening to Zeppelin, I grew up listening to opera, jazz, soul, and blues and also Black Sabbath. So this was alien to me in many ways, but all of a sudden covid hit I was so angry with how things were going, I got my rage back, called Rob (Cavello) and told him to send me the melodies, send me everything, I’m going to do this. I remember as a kid hearing Black Dog for the first time, and thought, If I ever become a singer, that’s what I want to sing, It blew my mind. I fell madly in love with Jimmy Page’s ability to not only write so well but also to arrange in the way that he did”.

It's totally understood where Beth is coming from. It’s not just a case of stepping into Robert Plant’s shoes, you have to fully enter the world of Led Zeppelin, and nobody has ever done that before.