Well, the tour of the summer is finally headed to Memphis — Mud Island, to be exact, on July 8th. Tickets went on sale this morning at 10 AM.

Go here for a great piece about the duo, original published in venerable British newspaper the Times.

Craig McLean does his best to dissect the odd couple:

He is the hard-rock banshee of Seventies lore, the former frontman of the most extravagant and heavy blues-rock band of all time and the “Golden God” the director Cameron Crowe “borrowed” for his iconic rock star in Almost Famous. He memorably demanded that a paramour “squeeze my lemon till the juice runs down my leg” in the song Killing Floor and, post-Zeppelin and post-Honeydrippers, spent many years exploring his interest in the blues and north African and Islamic music.

She is the God-fearin’ Midwestern girl, the bastion of America’s alt-country music scene who was a champion fiddler as a child, who released her first bluegrass album at the age of 16 and who has won 21 Grammy awards. She’s 23 years his junior and polite and almost diffident next to his raucous (and often ribald) earthiness.