I saw Robert Plant & Alison Krauss Last Night
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I am still smiling. It was really a great magical experience. It was the perfect summer concert in an amphitheater on a warm summer night with a cool breeze blowing.
Alison Krauss's voice is amazing, so beautiful to listen to. Plant still commands a stage without having to resort to histrionics. They did three Zep tunes. So nice to hear musicians who really know how make their instruments sound great. To those of you going to Bonnaroo, make sure you catch them.
Alison Krauss's voice is amazing, so beautiful to listen to. Plant still commands a stage without having to resort to histrionics. They did three Zep tunes. So nice to hear musicians who really know how make their instruments sound great. To those of you going to Bonnaroo, make sure you catch them.
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as for robert plant... ive not seen him live since 1984.
take a good look
this could be the day
hold my hand
lie beside me
i just need to say
wow, I'm so happy for you!!
But mr. justam
is who I am
"That's a repulsive combination of horrible information and bad breath."-Pickles
"Remember, death is a natural part of the workplace. So, when you see a dead body at work, don't freak out, just ring your death bell." "ting"-Toki Wartooth
poor old bugger.
take a good look
this could be the day
hold my hand
lie beside me
i just need to say
(Such a good save!)
you've got to be kidding me.
I'm very conflicted.
I am not familiar with DCFC, so I can't really say. Maybe someone else will be able to help. :(
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is who I am
"That's a repulsive combination of horrible information and bad breath."-Pickles
"Remember, death is a natural part of the workplace. So, when you see a dead body at work, don't freak out, just ring your death bell." "ting"-Toki Wartooth
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Agreed.
lucky would love to see this tour... possibly a one off.
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Thanks. That is exactly the reason I wanted to see them perform. I also feel lucky they came by our way. I wish I had bought tickets to another show.
But mr. justam
is who I am
"That's a repulsive combination of horrible information and bad breath."-Pickles
"Remember, death is a natural part of the workplace. So, when you see a dead body at work, don't freak out, just ring your death bell." "ting"-Toki Wartooth
MUSIC REVIEW ; Plant, Krauss: Devil made them duet
JED GOTTLIEB
By JED GOTTLIEB
7 June 2008
Boston Herald
1st Edition
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ROBERT PLANT and ALISON KRAUSS
At the Bank of America Pavilion, Thursday night.
If God and the devil put their petty bickering aside and booked a musical revue together it might sound, no, make that it WOULDsound, just like Thursday night's sold-out Robert Plant and Alison Krauss show at the Bank of America Pavilion.
Few, other than God and Satan, thought the duo would work, but the princess of bright bluegrass and the high priest of heavy metal and deep, dark blues made one of 2007's best albums in "Raising Sand." Now they've parlayed that album into a tour that contrasts purity and mischief, and does it with delicate power.
Like the album, the show inverted cliches. While Krauss spent most of the set playing the angel - "Down the River to Pray," sung a cappella by Krauss with Plant and the band adding sparse harmonies, was a musical rapture - she also let her dark side show.
A great bluegrass singer, Krauss' skills occasionally came off as paint-by-numbers perfect. But with "Green River" she legitimately nailed that whole haunting vocal thing.
OK, Plant never really repented, but he wasn't all debonair devil. He's still got that fox in the henhouse swagger - and he showed it best on "Fortune Teller" - but he's aging gracefully. Everyone from Mick Jagger to David Lee Roth still depends on waning sex appeal; Plant forgot his loins, if briefly, and channeled the other-worldly quality of Tom Waits.
On a duet with Krauss and backed by a crack band - the drummer was John Bonham-meets-the-Tennessee-Three - Plant turned "Black Dog" into an exercise in atmosphere. No high screech or rooster strut, it was all creepy restraint. He also managed to make the song's sexual moaning into a call-and-response with the crowd - many of whom were unsexy, Lexus-owning suburbanites.
Rightfully, the centerpiece of the set was a menacing cover of Led Zeppelin's "Battle of Evermore" that, well, to call it transcendent would sell the song short. Plant held down the low end while Krauss cooed like a Middle-earth elf.
Plant said "See you next time" and seemed to mean it. Which is great news. This can only get cooler on album and tour No. 2.
Sharon Little opened up with some Grace Potter-style blues- country-folk. It would have been nice before Bonnie Raitt, but it didn't really cut it next to the duo of the day.
Bluegrass and rock in harmony
Joan Anderman
Joan Anderman GLOBE STAFF. Robert e. klein for the boston globe
6 June 2008
The Boston Globe
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Music Review
Alison Krauss and Robert Plant
With Sharon Little
At: Bank of America Pavilion,last night
Like couples with nothing in common who fall madly in love, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss make beautiful music together. Last night the iconic rocker and the bluegrass superstar performed songs from their 2007 album "Raising Sand," a collection of American classics both vintage and contemporary, as well as a handful of tunes from each artist's solo catalog. Where the album is painstakingly subdued - a dusky wash of deep tones and muted percussion with nary a shimmer or an edge within earshot - the live show was endlessly dynamic.
Plant and Krauss were accompanied by a roots supergroup that included their producer T Bone Burnett (whose dark magic is at the heart of this remarkable collaboration), guitarist Buddy Miller, drummer Jay Bellerose, bassist Dennis Crouch, and multi- instrumentalist Stuart Duncan.
The pair opened with the swampy, late-night blues of "Rich Woman," segued into a fiddle-and-mandolin-stoked thigh-slapper in "Leave My Woman Alone," and proceeded to blow the crowd away with a hauntingly reimagined version of Led Zeppelin's "Black Dog," slowed to a march and configured for banjo and upright bass. Burnett's handprints were all over the arrangement, but Duncan's Jimmy Page- worthy solo - on violin, no less - introduced fans to the sideways sort of heaviness that would color the captivating two-hour set.
Egos were checked at the door. Plant ensconced himself behind a microphone at the back of the stage to sing back-up while Krauss loosed her piercing, crystalline soprano on the Gene Clark classic "Through the Morning, Through the Night," and he formed a close- knit harmony trio with Miller and Duncan during Krauss's sweet, delicate read of the traditional "Down to the River to Pray." Plant blended happily into the dusty musical fabric while she burrowed into gripping, minimalist covers of Sam Phillips' "Sister Rosetta Goes Before Us" and Tom Waits' "Trampled Rose."
Krauss, who has found a new ferocity (and decibel level) in her communion with the rock god, shadowed Plant with equal graciousness, lending mighty harmonies and almost savage fiddle on majestic, organic renditions of the Zep gems "Battle of Evermore" and "Black Country Music." The Zeppelin fanatics who figured this was the next best thing to the nonexistent reunion tour - and not a few of them peppered the crowd - danced ecstatically.
Burnett took a turn in the spotlight, as well, stepping to the microphone for rousing takes on his own "The Rat Age" and "Bon Temps Rouler."
"We all come from different musical places but this week we lost one of our founding fathers," Plant said before the group launched into a raucous cover of Bo Diddley's "Who Do You Love?" Yet over the course of the evening it became clearer and clearer just how much common ground these seemingly disparate musical forces share. It's in their deep affection for the music's roots - the seminal changes in the Everly Brothers' "Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On)," and the cosmic mournfulness of Townes Van Zandt's "Nothin." The latter materialized as a sinewy incantation: Plant howled like an animal, with Krauss baying to his right, and the audience responded in kind.
NEWS
PLANT & KRAUSS PUT DOWN ROOTS. SOULFUL RENDITIONS HIGHLIGHT SHOW AT GARDEN
JIM FARBER DAILY NEWS MUSIC CRITIC
11 June 2008
New York Daily News
SPORTS FINAL
31
THEY'RE MUSIC'S latest odd couple - Led Zeppelin yowler Robert Plant and bluegrass chanteuse Alison Krauss. Yet their improbable bond has created something even more unexpected - one of the strongest-selling CDs in a commercially feeble era, the platinum "Raising Sand."
Buoyed by its success, the pair has launched a major tour that wafted through the WaMu Theater at Madison Square Garden last night.
Zeppelin fans may curse the day this tour was conceived, since it prevented - or at least delayed - a full-scale road show for Plant's storied band, something that has been rumored ever since that act floored the rock world with last year's one-off reunion gig in London.
A fully-Led'ed road show may yet happen. But in the meantime, no informed aficionado of Plant's talents - or Krauss' - would have felt betrayed by last night's tender display.
Though at times more forceful and animated than the subtle "Raising Sand," the show still emphasized nuanced vocals and contemplative rhythms. Not a conventional rock or bluegrass event, the concert was its own sweet beast, lurking at the intersection of dreamy folk and dusty country.
Krauss and Plant harmonized closely on songs so somber they verged on the Gothic.
"Rich Woman" told the tale of a smug gigolo, but it's spooky guitars betrayed the consequences of his cynicism.
Krauss sang "So Long and Goodbye to You" with such ache it suggested ruin.
Several songs underscored the connection between Celtic music and its Appalachian offspring. Krauss put a twang in the murder ballad "Matty Groves," made famous by the very English Fairport Convention, while she and Plant moved Zeppelin's "The Battle of Evermore" from the British Isles to the Kentucky hills.
The show also featured a spot for the producer and sonic architect of this whole shadowy sound, T-Bone Burnett.
But the killer moment had to be the radical rethink of Zeppelin's "Black Dog" from a stadium stomper to a backwoods blues that roiled with menace.
This may not have been the loudest take on the song but, like this whole exquisite show, it proved that understated sounds can move you just as deeply.
sadly they are playing opposite Beck on Saturday night at ACL.....on the opposite end of the park!
It also changed my outlook on setlists. What I mean is, I used to think that the measure of the band was the surprises of the songs they played, and I thumbed my noses at bands that played the same setlist every night. I judged Pearl Jam shows by how much they changed their setlist. But last night completely changed that for me. I'm sure this set was exactly the same one they've been playing, but it was a set that made perfect sense. Every song flowed into the next one, and the concert had more momentum than any Pearl Jam concert I've ever seen (or any other band that changes their setlist every night for that matter). I'll never automatically dismiss a band because they're playing a similar setlist every night ever again.
Here is a Billboard.com article June 12, 2008
http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003816015
Plant, Krauss 'In No Hurry' To End Collaboration
Alison Krauss and Robert Plant
June 12, 2008, 2:30 PM ET
Gary Graff, Detroit
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss are hoping to turn their platinum-certified, Grammy Award-winning "Raising Sand" into a going concern.
"I'm in no hurry to go anywhere," Plant told Billboard.com during a teleconference with reporters today (June 12). "I want to stay very close. This is a font of knowledge, and I'm sticking as close to it as I can."
Krauss concurred, "we're all having a wonderful time, and I hope and I think all three of us are hoping to continue this and that it go on and on." But she added that the duo's association shouldn't bring the curtain down on any of their other projects.
"That doesn't mean we've lost any love for who we've played for and play with," she said. "The guys in Union Station, that's like home. So I hope to continue this and go back home, too."
And while no firm plans are in motion yet for a "Raising Sand" sequel, producer T-Bone Burnett, who's also the musical director for the current Plant-Krauss concert tour, said in a separate conversation that he hopes to get another shot at the collaboration.
"I feel like we're just starting to know what we can do with it," Burnett said. "The two of them are so incredibly good that I would hate to not continue to work with both of them."
For the moment, Plant and Krauss are definitely working together through July 19, when the tour wraps up in Nashville (they also stop at the Bonnaroo Music Festival on Sunday). And both said that they're enjoying the opportunity to expand and enhance their musical partnership on the road.
"I'm surprised at the varying of the performances show to show," Krauss said. "Because of the personalities within the band, it has changed the show night to night, not only the show overall but each tune takes on a different character. Everything has its own identity from night to that. That's very exciting for all of us."
Plant, meanwhile, says performing the album's rootsy music, as well as revamped versions of some Led Zeppelin songs, live has "become quite an illumination, really. What has been created with the chemistry between the three of us has its down kind of genre, really. I'm a very fortunate man. I couldn't wish for anything better than this."