# Robert Plant & Alison Krauss, T Bone Burnett collaboration, Raising Sand **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 23, 2017, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-plant-amp-alison-krauss-t-bone-burnett-collaboration-raising-sand/787297 "2017-05-23T19:17:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2017, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-plant-amp-alison-krauss-t-bone-burnett-collaboration-raising-sand/787297/1 "2017-05-23T19:17:47Z")
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. > **[Raising Sand](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_Sand)** > > Raising Sand is a collaborative studio album by rock singer Robert Plant and bluegrass-country singer Alison Krauss. It was released in October 2007 by Rounder Records. Raising Sand won Album of the Year at the 2008 Americana Music Honors & Awards and at the 2009 Grammy Awards. > The album met with critical acclaim, earning an average score of 87 from reviews compiled by Metacritic. It ranked at #24 on Rolling Stone's December 17, 2007 listing of the year's top 50 albums. Being There called it "... Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - ‘Raising Sand’: [Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Raising Sand - YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8g0bTbJueB0vtsY-hTSPYPtKrE22K68Z) There’s several live performances you can find too. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2017, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-plant-amp-alison-krauss-t-bone-burnett-collaboration-raising-sand/787297/2 "2017-05-23T19:22:38Z")
Not sure what happened in the thread title. I didn’t type amp; it just appeared when I hit post. ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2017, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-plant-amp-alison-krauss-t-bone-burnett-collaboration-raising-sand/787297/3 "2017-05-23T21:08:31Z")
Good album ---
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2017, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-plant-amp-alison-krauss-t-bone-burnett-collaboration-raising-sand/787297/4 "2017-05-24T00:36:39Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2017, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-plant-amp-alison-krauss-t-bone-burnett-collaboration-raising-sand/787297/5 "2017-05-24T03:30:30Z")
[Here’s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnNNorl5yKE) them doing a really different live treatment of Black Dog. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2017, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-plant-amp-alison-krauss-t-bone-burnett-collaboration-raising-sand/787297/6 "2017-05-24T04:01:09Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2017, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-plant-amp-alison-krauss-t-bone-burnett-collaboration-raising-sand/787297/7 "2017-05-24T10:11:03Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Hocus\_Pocus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/41988e/32.png) [@Hocus\_Pocus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hocus_Pocus)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2017, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-plant-amp-alison-krauss-t-bone-burnett-collaboration-raising-sand/787297/8 "2017-05-24T15:36:24Z")
Loved their cover of _Gone Gone Gone_. ---
**Author:** ![TwoCarrotSnowman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/twocarrotsnowman/32/15879_2.png) [@TwoCarrotSnowman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwoCarrotSnowman)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2017, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-plant-amp-alison-krauss-t-bone-burnett-collaboration-raising-sand/787297/9 "2017-05-24T16:42:12Z")
I’m a big fan of Raising Sand. Great album. Sent from my SM-G935F using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![Quercus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/7ab992/32.png) [@Quercus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quercus)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2017, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-plant-amp-alison-krauss-t-bone-burnett-collaboration-raising-sand/787297/10 "2017-05-24T16:58:51Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![jaycat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaycat/32/3015_2.png) [@jaycat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jaycat)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2017, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-plant-amp-alison-krauss-t-bone-burnett-collaboration-raising-sand/787297/11 "2017-05-24T19:08:51Z")
> [@Quercus](#): > > 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. 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? ---
**Author:** ![Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/channing_idaho_banks/32/250_2.png) [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Channing_Idaho_Banks)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2017, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-plant-amp-alison-krauss-t-bone-burnett-collaboration-raising-sand/787297/12 "2017-05-24T19:29:23Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![BobArrgh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobarrgh/32/2881_2.png) [@BobArrgh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobArrgh)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2017, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-plant-amp-alison-krauss-t-bone-burnett-collaboration-raising-sand/787297/13 "2017-05-24T20:52:21Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![4d3fect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/4d3fect/32/9728_2.png) [@4d3fect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/4d3fect)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2017, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-plant-amp-alison-krauss-t-bone-burnett-collaboration-raising-sand/787297/14 "2017-05-24T22:48:05Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2017, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-plant-amp-alison-krauss-t-bone-burnett-collaboration-raising-sand/787297/15 "2017-05-25T00:29:09Z")
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](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAL1fSBmpRA) I sometime listen to this arrangement on YouTube to relax. [Willing "Polly Come Home" (Robert Plant and Allison Krauss "Raising Sand" arrangement - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2puLc-CHX4) ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2017, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-plant-amp-alison-krauss-t-bone-burnett-collaboration-raising-sand/787297/16 "2017-05-25T00:35:39Z")
Er, make that “Polly COME home.” ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2017, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-plant-amp-alison-krauss-t-bone-burnett-collaboration-raising-sand/787297/17 "2017-05-25T00:49:21Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Not sure what happened in the thread title. > > I didn’t type amp; it just appeared when I hit post. Robert Plant likely will need an amp for said collaboration. ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2017, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-plant-amp-alison-krauss-t-bone-burnett-collaboration-raising-sand/787297/18 "2017-05-25T01:56:38Z")
FYI, I read that they were considering a Raising Sands sequel, but scrapped it because the music didn’t grab them. ---
**Author:** ![tavalla](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tavalla/32/89_2.png) [@tavalla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tavalla)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2017, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-plant-amp-alison-krauss-t-bone-burnett-collaboration-raising-sand/787297/19 "2017-05-25T10:33:38Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2017, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-plant-amp-alison-krauss-t-bone-burnett-collaboration-raising-sand/787297/20 "2017-05-26T04:27:33Z")
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. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-plant-amp-alison-krauss-t-bone-burnett-collaboration-raising-sand/787297.md?page=2)