# Anyone have "Raising Sand" (album--Alison Krauss and Robert Plant) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 8, 2007, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-have-raising-sand-album-alison-krauss-and-robert-plant/425630 "2007-11-08T04:56:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2007, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-have-raising-sand-album-alison-krauss-and-robert-plant/425630/1 "2007-11-08T04:56:16Z")
I didn’t know about this collaboration until yesterday and after listening to the samples I’m sold. I’ve told my husband I want it for Christmas but I’m not sure I can wait that long. Has anyone heard it? Is it as awesome as the samples? ---
**Author:** ![Gordon\_Urquhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/db5fbb/32.png) [@Gordon\_Urquhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gordon_Urquhart)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2007, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-have-raising-sand-album-alison-krauss-and-robert-plant/425630/2 "2007-11-08T15:25:15Z")
I bought it last week and have listened to it about 10 times so far. I like it quite a lot. I’m definitely a bigger fan of Alison Krauss than I am of Robert Plant (at least his solo stuff); on this album, a lot of her vocals are simply harmonies or backgrounds to Plant’s (similar to what she did on a couple of songs on her brother Viktor’s album [Far From Enough](http://www.amazon.com/Far-Enough-Viktor-Krauss/dp/B00018D332/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2/002-7901945-5494441?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1194535061&sr=1-2) – including _Big Log_, which I suspect may have been the impetus for _Raising Sand_). Krauss has an amazing voice that I’ve admired for many years, and I really like that she uses it to “soften” the edges of Plant’s vocals (which sound incredibly good, too). The radio stations around here are playing _Gone, Gone, Gone_ (which I’d heard before by the Everly Brothers but didn’t recognize this as a cover), _Please Read the Letter_ (a re-working of Plant and Jimmy Page’s song from 1998’s _Walking Into Clarksdale_), and _Fortune Teller_. There are a lot of familiar names in the songwriting and backing band credits. The vocals are simply marvelous, and the backing band kicks butt. It’s a very fun album, and I highly recommend it. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2007, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-have-raising-sand-album-alison-krauss-and-robert-plant/425630/3 "2007-11-08T15:41:52Z")
[QUOTE=Gordon Urquhart] The vocals are simply marvelous, and the backing band kicks butt. It’s a very fun album, and I highly recommend it. [/QUOTE] Excellent. Thanks. Now there’s no way I can wait until Christmas. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![SaharaTea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SaharaTea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SaharaTea)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2007, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-have-raising-sand-album-alison-krauss-and-robert-plant/425630/4 "2007-11-08T15:48:01Z")
My fiancee got it and I’ve heard most of it. Yeah, my first reaction to this pairing was,“Huh?” And I’m not really an Alison Krauss fan either. But I liked it. People expecting to hear Krauss’ bluegrass sound or Plant’s powerful Zeppelin pipes will be disappointed. This is a very soft, understated album. I especially liked their versions of the Everly Brothers “Gone Gone Gone” and Tom Waits’ “Trampled Rose.”