New album, Robert Plant & Alison Krauss

Veddernarian
Veddernarian Posts: 1,924
edited September 2007 in Other Music
That's right... And a month before the Led Zeppelin concert, Robert Plant/Alison Krause will be released on Oct 23. What an unlikely pairing. I've heard it and holy crap, they pull it off. If you're looking for Physical Grafitti, Part II, don't look in this direction. (Except the songs sort of sound like Black Country Woman, or Led Zep III). They are USA Bluegrass, roots music. Their voices compliment eachother well. Not for everyone, and in a message pit for a hard rock, grunge genre, many of you may have a closed mind for this kind of stuff. But anyway, I'll post it here in "other music" and here is a link for more info (including an 8-minute interview). As I say, I like it and it is cool that they experimented like this.

http://www.amazon.com/Raising-Sand-Robert-Plant/dp/B000UMQDHC/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/102-8306395-7712908?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1191027210&sr=8-1

EDIT: 12/3/2008: Already won 1 Grammy last year for the single "Gone Gone Gone, Done Moved On", nominated today for 5 more Grammy Awards.

Plant/Krauss back in the studio this January.
Up here so high I start to shake, Up here so high the sky I scrape, I've no fear but for falling down, So look out below I am falling now, Falling down,...not staying down, Could’ve held me up, rather tear me down, Drown in the river
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  • restlesssoul
    restlesssoul Posts: 6,952
    very cool indeed. robert plant can sing with Barney for all i care, he pretty much earned the respect that, whatever he releases, i will at least listen to once.

    manic nirvana? come one, awesome.
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  • tybird
    tybird Posts: 17,388
    Veddernarian wrote:
    That's right... And a month before the Led Zeppelin concert, Robert Plant/Alison Krause will be released on Oct 23. What an unlikely pairing. I've heard it and holy crap, they pull it off. If you're looking for Physical Grafitti, Part II, don't look in this direction. (Except the songs sort of sound like Black Country Woman, or Led Zep III). They are USA Bluegrass, roots music. Their voices compliment eachother well. Not for everyone, and in a message pit for a hard rock, grunge genre, many of you may have a closed mind for this kind of stuff. But anyway, I'll post it here in "other music" and here is a link for more info (including an 8-minute interview). As I say, I like it and it is cool that they experimented like this.

    http://www.amazon.com/Raising-Sand-Robert-Plant/dp/B000UMQDHC/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/102-8306395-7712908?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1191027210&sr=8-1
    Hey.......I'm a big fan of Alison too. Have most the Union Station albums and her solo stuff....seen her live. I am pumped for this.
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  • Born.Mine.Die
    Born.Mine.Die Vancouver Posts: 225
    sweet cant wait!!!!
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  • jamie uk
    jamie uk Posts: 3,812
    Well I'm looking forward to it, have been for months. I heard a track on the radio yesterday, and yes it's very good. I'm a tincey bit dissapointed at the whole Zepp thing to be honest, I was hoping for another Strange Sensation album. I mean that last one is incredible. Having said that, my name is in the hat for tickets to the O2, I don't hold out much hope though, but then I saw him 5 weeks back and he played half a dozen of my favourite Zepp songs then!! juk
    I came, I saw, I concurred.....
  • Veddernarian
    Veddernarian Posts: 1,924
    jamie uk wrote:
    "I heard a track on the radio yesterday, and yes it's very good. "

    Which track are they playing on the radio?
    Up here so high I start to shake, Up here so high the sky I scrape, I've no fear but for falling down, So look out below I am falling now, Falling down,...not staying down, Could’ve held me up, rather tear me down, Drown in the river
  • Ridin The Wave
    Ridin The Wave Posts: 552
    This is crazy! She has one of the most beautiful voices I've ever heard! And nothing needs to be said about Mr. Plant!
  • glasshouse
    glasshouse Posts: 1,762
    can't wait for this! thanks for posting.

    Mighty Rearranger was such a gem!
    Athens, Greece: 2006/09/30

    "Call me Ishmael. Some years ago- never mind how long precisely- having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world." Herman Melville : Moby Dick
  • Veddernarian
    Veddernarian Posts: 1,924
    glasshouse wrote:
    can't wait for this! thanks for posting.

    Mighty Rearranger was such a gem!

    I heard a demo copy. The whole thing is great. I never heard of Alison Krause before. Her voice is incredible. Would be totally incredible if she came on at the Led Zeppelin concert in November and did Sandy Denny's part in the Battle of Evermore. Some songs are like the Honeydrippers where you're rocking and swaying in your seat. Like the Fortune Teller song for example with Plant doing his great R&B stuff like he did on Money at HOB 10/5/05. Great guitar solo at the end with Alison doing backing vocals. Some of the songs are duets where they sing in perfect harmony with eachother. Thank God there is no call & response like Elton John/Kiki Dee, "Don't go breaking my heart". Please Read the Letter is the same song as on Page/Plant, "Clarksdale". Slowed down and with more instruments and harmony. It is almost an hour long. The thing goes by and it totally works. As I said in the original posting, wow, what an unlikely pairing. By the way, Plant sounds great and this Led Zep concert should be amazing. There were so many Plant sightings in Nashville last year leading to last March. I was lead to believe they did a song or two together on an Alison Krause album. This is really a treat. Maybe 4 songs have one person with no trace of the other. The rest are both, either duet or one lead, other backing. Album in total is probably 55-60% Plant, 40-45% Krause. Music is 100% roots, bluegrass, country, r&b. It's very cool.
    Up here so high I start to shake, Up here so high the sky I scrape, I've no fear but for falling down, So look out below I am falling now, Falling down,...not staying down, Could’ve held me up, rather tear me down, Drown in the river
  • glasshouse
    glasshouse Posts: 1,762
    Veddernarian wrote:
    I heard a demo copy. The whole thing is great. I never heard of Alison Krause before. Her voice is incredible. Would be totally incredible if she came on at the Led Zeppelin concert in November and did Sandy Denny's part in the Battle of Evermore. Some songs are like the Honeydrippers where you're rocking and swaying in your seat. Like the Fortune Teller song for example with Plant doing his great R&B stuff like he did on Money at HOB 10/5/05. Great guitar solo at the end with Alison doing backing vocals. Some of the songs are duets where they sing in perfect harmony with eachother. Thank God there is no call & response like Elton John/Kiki Dee, "Don't go breaking my heart". Please Read the Letter is the same song as on Page/Plant, "Clarksdale". Slowed down and with more instruments and harmony. It is almost an hour long. The thing goes by and it totally works. As I said in the original posting, wow, what an unlikely pairing. By the way, Plant sounds great and this Led Zep concert should be amazing. There were so many Plant sightings in Nashville last year leading to last March. I was lead to believe they did a song or two together on an Alison Krause album. This is really a treat. Maybe 4 songs have one person with no trace of the other. The rest are both, either duet or one lead, other backing. Album in total is probably 55-60% Plant, 40-45% Krause. Music is 100% roots, bluegrass, country, r&b. It's very cool.

    i can't fucking wait
    Athens, Greece: 2006/09/30

    "Call me Ishmael. Some years ago- never mind how long precisely- having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world." Herman Melville : Moby Dick
  • Veddernarian
    Veddernarian Posts: 1,924
    Editorial Reviews

    Amazon.com
    Perhaps only the fantasy duo of King Kong and Bambi could be a more bizarre pairing than Robert Plant and Alison Krauss. Yet on Raising Sand, their haunting and brilliant collaboration, the Led Zeppelin screamer and Nashville's most hypnotic song whisperer seem made for each other. This, however, is not the howling Plant of "Whole Lotta Love," but a far more precise and softer singer than even the one who emerged with Dreamland (2002). No matter that Plant seems so subdued as to be on downers, for that's one of the keys to this most improbable meeting of musical galaxies--almost all of it seems slowed down, out of time, otherworldly, and at times downright David Lynch-ian, the product of an altered consciousness. Yet probably the main reason it all works so well is the choice of producer T Bone Burnette, the third star of the album, who culled mostly lesser-known material from some of the great writers of blues, country, folk, gospel, and R&B, including Tom Waits, Townes Van Zandt, Milt Campbell, the Everly Brothers, Sam Phillips, and A.D. and Rosa Lee Watson. At times, Burnette's spare and deliberate soundscape--incisively crafted by guitarists Marc Ribot and Norman Blake, bassist Dennis Crouch, drummer Jay Bellerose, and multi-instrumentalist Mike Seeger, among others--is nearly as dreamy and subterranean as Daniel Lanois's work with Emmylou Harris (Wrecking Ball). Occasionally, Burnette opts for a fairly straightforward production while still reworking the original song (Plant's own "Please Read the Letter," Mel Tillis's "Stick with Me, Baby"). But much of the new flesh on these old bones is oddly unsettling, if not nightmarish. On the opening track of "Rich Woman," the soft-as-clouds vocals strike an optimistic mood, while the instrumental backing--loose snare, ominous bass line, and insinuating electric guitar lines--create a spooky, sinister undertow. Plant and Krauss trade out the solo and harmony vocals, and while they both venture into new waters here (Krauss as a mainstream blues mama, Plant as a gospel singer and honkytonker), she steals the show in Sam Phillips' new "Sister Rosetta Goes Before Us," where a dramatic violin and tremulous banjo strike a foreboding gypsy tone. When Krauss begins this strange, seductive song in a voice so ethereal that angels will take note, you may stop breathing. That, among other reasons, makes Raising Sand an album to die for. --Alanna Nash
    Up here so high I start to shake, Up here so high the sky I scrape, I've no fear but for falling down, So look out below I am falling now, Falling down,...not staying down, Could’ve held me up, rather tear me down, Drown in the river
  • Mojopin
    Mojopin Posts: 216
    This is sooooo bought!

    Mojo
    "A consistently good band works all the different elements well. A song has to appeal sentimentally, intellectually, physically, viscerally, and dig deep down into your soul and suck you into it. And after that, of course, it'd be a matter of taste." ~ Kim Thayil from Soundgarden
  • Oh, Jimmy
    Oh, Jimmy Posts: 957
    Dreamland and Mighty Rearranger were excellent, and he carried Walking Into Clarksdale, imo. Planty has had a pretty big come back in my eyes. He chased the pop thing after Zep. But his last 3 albums have been flat out killer.

    I am skeptical, but this does sound promising now. Always looking for some good chillin muzak.
  • anotherclone
    anotherclone Posts: 1,688
    man, who'd a thunk it? I think this will be a gooder.
  • shell bell
    shell bell Posts: 337
    I'm getting this. Love Alison and love the solo Robert stuff.
    when you get confused just listen to the music play........

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  • Veddernarian
    Veddernarian Posts: 1,924
    Observer Music Magazine
    Woman, you need... a whole lotta banjo: ROBERT PLANT AND ALISON KRAUSS: Raising Sand (Universal) pounds 12.99: 5/5: The Zeppelin reunion? Big deal. Their singer's encounter with the diva of bluegrass is far more interesting
    Neil Spencer

    14 October 2007
    The Observer
    71

    What took him so long? A few minutes of Raising Sand is enough to prove that Robert Plant could have escaped the long shadow of Led Zeppelin way more swiftly than via the assorted rock bands with whom he's ploughed plain furrows down the years.

    Sung in tandem with country star Alison Krauss - the pair duet and provide backings for each other - Raising Sand is an album of deep, dark Americana, a scintillatingly stitched patchwork of country, R'n'B and singer-songwriters that represents what Plant describes as 'the America I have always loved musically'.

    The album's genesis stems directly from that love - several years back, Plant persuaded Krauss to join him in a tribute to Leadbelly for the blues legend's induction to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Subsequently, Krauss suggested producer T-Bone Burnett (the force behind the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack) to oversee their collaboration.

    Together with a blinding cast of players, the trio have come up with a record that refurbishes tradition with panache. The opener, for example, has Marc Ribot's echo-laden guitar twanging out a menacing blues groove for 'Rich Woman', written by one Dorothy LaBostrie. Dorothy who? Turns out she wrote 'Tutti Frutti' for Little Richard, contributing this gem to the obscure Li'l Millet.

    From there the writing credits take off into Americana arcana, setting songs by Gene Clark of the Byrds alongside a new name like Sam Phillips, whose poetic 'Sister Rosetta Goes Before Us' is achingly delivered by Krauss against a spartan backdrop of banjo and her own fiddle playing.

    There's lots more poignancy, not least on 'Please Read the Letter', whose appearance on the Page/Plant album Walking Into Clarksdale is well upstaged here, exemplifying Plant's more relaxed and engaging approach. It's a joy, too, to hear he and Krauss doing brother/sister harmonies on the Everlys' rocking 'Gone, Gone, Gone' or on Doc Watson's backwoods devotional 'Your Long Journey'. It's a partnership of odd equals, but it works.

    Plant declines to showboat throughout. He can't resist a holler on 'Fortune Teller', the Sixties R'n'B warhorse on which his teenage self doubtless cut his vocal chords, but even on an ambitiously dramatised 'Nothin" by that bleakest of country muses, Townes van Zandt, his measure stays true amid a squall of guitar and sawing fiddle.

    'I should have taken a lot more risks,' a reminiscent Plant told Uncut magazine recently. Belatedly, at least, here's one that's paid off handsomely.

    DOWNLOAD ' Sister Rosetta Goes Before Us'; 'Nothin"
    Up here so high I start to shake, Up here so high the sky I scrape, I've no fear but for falling down, So look out below I am falling now, Falling down,...not staying down, Could’ve held me up, rather tear me down, Drown in the river
  • Veddernarian
    Veddernarian Posts: 1,924
    Culture
    Plant, Krauss unlikely but refreshing team
    Peter North
    Freelance

    13 October 2007
    Edmonton Journal
    Final
    C3

    Album: Raising Sand

    Artist: Robert Plant & Alison Krauss

    Label: Rounder

    Rating: 4 1/2

    Not as unlikely a pairing as we might initially think, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss have created one of the great albums of the new millennium with Raising Sand.

    Born out of a deep respect for one another's work and a one-off collaboration at a concert celebrating the work of Leadbelly, the album shows that Krauss and Plant have much in common, particularly when T-Bone Burnett acts as the bridge between the two and the guiding light for this much-anticipated project.

    Step back and think about Plant's marvellous 2003 outing Dreamland, where he bit off a chunk of traditional and contemporary folk music history and poured his molten silver voice into pieces by Bukka White, Jesse Colin Young, Tim Buckley and Skip Spence.

    Then reflect on Krauss's ability to push--if not completely overstep--the boundaries of bluegrass, and paint bluesy spins on hard-rock ballads, and it's apparent the two are kindred spirits, even if Plant is a quarter-century her senior.

    Plant's ability to once again pull in the reins on one of the most effectively animated and imitated vocal deliveries in contemporary music is the key to this session that pulls from a palette where deep blues brush up against rockabilly reverberations, dreamy country-rock etchings, and old-time country sentiments.

    Burnett hand-picked the 13 songs, skimming the cream in the form of two Gene Clark pieces (Through The Morning Through The Night and Polly), Roly Salley's Killing The Blues, and the Everly Brothers' classic Gone Gone Gone.

    One of the finest moments in Krauss's entire discography comes on yet another Clark piece from the Dillard and Clark era. It's as if she marks the tune with an elongated mournful sigh as Plant responds with a understated harmony that sails under the mix as if being beamed from another universe.

    It's a rare combination when incredibly gifted individuals like Plant, Krauss and Burnett can come together and create something so refreshing, unique, stirring and heartfelt, and never once does the shadow of ego darken the mix.
    Up here so high I start to shake, Up here so high the sky I scrape, I've no fear but for falling down, So look out below I am falling now, Falling down,...not staying down, Could’ve held me up, rather tear me down, Drown in the river
  • tybird
    tybird Posts: 17,388
    Next Tuesday can't get here fast enough.
    All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a thousand enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.
  • Veddernarian
    Veddernarian Posts: 1,924
    Listen to it here, http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/alisonkrauss/albums/album/16272721/review/16928089/raising_sand?rating=11
    Up here so high I start to shake, Up here so high the sky I scrape, I've no fear but for falling down, So look out below I am falling now, Falling down,...not staying down, Could’ve held me up, rather tear me down, Drown in the river
  • cc10106
    cc10106 Posts: 385
    My roomie was playing this on rhapsody last nite, and I got to hear about half of it. I expected good things, but it is really excellent. I think all of the songs are covers, but no matter. Allison Krauss's voice can melt wax. I'm definitely picking up a hard copy of this.
  • Mojopin
    Mojopin Posts: 216
    This is definitely one of the best things I've heard this decade. It completely reinvents several genres and styles of music, and mixes them all together in this cauldron of 'sand'. What comes out are these songs that sort of sound faintly familiar, yet almost completely different. It is utterly unique, and thoroughly fascinating. And dare I say completely inspiring...

    Highly recommended!

    Mojo
    "A consistently good band works all the different elements well. A song has to appeal sentimentally, intellectually, physically, viscerally, and dig deep down into your soul and suck you into it. And after that, of course, it'd be a matter of taste." ~ Kim Thayil from Soundgarden

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