Robert Plant & Alison Krauss, T Bone Burnett collaboration, Raising Sand

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Ok, I’m a bit late to the party. How did a Album earning 5 Grammy’s miss my attention for so long? It came out in 2007.

I stumbled across it on YouTube. One of many reasons I love YouTube. I find a lot of new music there.

Absolutely brilliant performances by Robert Plant and Alison Krauss. Plant is his usual in your face performer. Alison a bit reserved seems bemused. Their live harmonies are incredible.

T Bone Burnett hand picked most of the classic songs and produced the album.

Seek out the live performances. The entire recorded album is on YouTube.

Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - ‘Raising Sand’: Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Raising Sand - YouTube

There’s several live performances you can find too.

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Not sure what happened in the thread title.

I didn’t type amp; it just appeared when I hit post.

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Good album

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It is a great album. I raised my eyebrows at the combo of Krauss/Plant, but my ears assured me, it is a good pairing.

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Here’s them doing a really different live treatment of Black Dog.

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Black Dog is my favorite. Robert is being his boisterous self and Alison is along for the wild ride.

I’m impressed how versatile she is musically.

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She’s a brilliant harmony singer with a pitch-perfect voice. He’s an “interpretive singer” - I enjoy Plant, and Zep is in the pantheon, but precision isn’t his thing. She’s like the ideal multi-track device for him, doubling, thickening up and evening out his vocal.

And T-Bone is Americana music, so you know it would be curated and produced well. Good stuff.

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Loved their cover of Gone Gone Gone.

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I’m a big fan of Raising Sand. Great album.

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Just know that if you want some kind of wild, mind-expanding “Led Zepplin meets Bluegrass/Gospel” experience, this is not it.

This is a T-Bone Burnett album, just with a couple of outside voices brought in to sing lead.

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I don’t know why there always seems to be someone like this chiming in. Everyone’s saying “this is a really great ham sandwich” and this guy has to point out, well it’s not a turkey sandwich now, is it?

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You missed a lot of great music. Sad! I saw Robert Plant 4 times during that period in various concerts including with T Bone Burnett. The entire thing was freaking fantastic.

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I found out about Plant and Krauss a few years back, and I thought it was going to be the weirdest pairing in music since Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan sang “Girl from the North Country”, which is one of the worst songs either of them did, IMHO.

Turns out Plant and Krauss are simply wonderful together. I hadn’t heard “Black Dog”, but when I listened just now, I got goosebumps. Then I switched over to “Killing the Blues”, and I am just about in tears. For some reason, that song gets me every time, and I don’t know why.

I love these two together.

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Normally not into this kind of stuff, but my wife is a big Plant fan, so we ended up seeing the band perform this material and more at the SB Bowl a few years back. One of the best shows I’ve ever seen. T-Bone Burnett, in particular, has a great reverb laden sound, and the musicianship the band exhibited was inspired.

Loved the cover of Trampled Rose on the disc.

The cover of Black Dog at the show had this unforgettably swampy spooky, hypnotic vibe.

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Strange, strange concept but somehow it worked. Love this album. My favorite song is “Polly Came Home.” Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - "Polly Come Home" - YouTube

I sometime listen to this arrangement on YouTube to relax. Willing "Polly Come Home" (Robert Plant and Allison Krauss "Raising Sand" arrangement - YouTube

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Er, make that “Polly COME home.”

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Robert Plant likely will need an amp for said collaboration.

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FYI, I read that they were considering a Raising Sands sequel, but scrapped it because the music didn’t grab them.

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It’s a great album. Robert Plant continues to experiment musically: Band of Joy, and Lullaby and the Ceaseless Roar (both released since Raising Sand) are just as interesting in different ways.

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Any musicians?

The Raising Sand Songbook is available. I ordered it from Sheet Music Plus. Other vendors should have it too.

Great music to jam with on guitar or bass.