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Robert Plant's new 'Carry Fire' keeps his focus fully forward

LOS ANGELES - Robert Plant insists he hasn't devoted his life to music for the money or the awards.

So it's with a detached sense of humor that the celebrated singer and songwriter remembers being overlooked by the Grammy Awards for his critically acclaimed 2014 album, "Lullaby and ... the Ceaseless Roar," his first with his band of international master musicians, the Sensational Space Shifters.

After all, his 2007 collaborative album with Alison Krauss, "Raising Sand," took the top Grammy prize, album of the year. "It's not really an issue," Plant, 69, said last week from a holiday he was

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