Legendary rocker Robert Plant [ tickets ] has added several new North American dates to his current tour in support of "Mighty Rearranger," his first collection of all-new solo material in more than a decade.

After Plant's current U.S. run ends on July 24 in Los Angeles, he plans to play a few shows in Europe before arriving back in North America Sept. 10 for an appearance in Ottawa, Ontario. The just-added leg of the former Led Zeppelin frontman's tour will take him through Canada before hitting several cities in the U.S. North and Southwest. After finishing up his U.S. business, the busy Plant will gear up for a long European tour late this year. Plant's European itinerary is posted at his website.

Backing Plant on the new album is The Strange Sensation, a band he formed in 2001; the group--drummer Clive Deamer (Portishead, Roni Size), bassists John Baggott (Portishead, Massive Attack) and Billy Fuller (Fuzz Against Junk), guitarist Skin (Cast) and multi-instrumentalist Justin Adams (Sinead O'Connor)--first appeared on Plant's Grammy-nominated, 2002 covers set, "Dreamland."

Plant and company wrote and recorded the new album last year in Snowdonia and Solsbury Hill, U.K., according to a press release.

"It's always idiosyncratic; we're a weird bunch of characters and we all do stuff in a non standard way," Strange Sensation's Adams said in a statement. "Robert is an interesting person to work with. He encourages people's individual styles: he's happy for me to bring in unfamiliar North African rhythms and for John to introduce weird electronic sounds; it doesn't happen that often nowadays. Usually, it's one guy at home with a computer. It wasn't like that in '60s and '70s--people were breaking rules and inventing new forms of music. We are closer to that spirit of weird and anarchic ways."