×
Uh-oh, it looks like your Internet Explorer is out of date.
For a better shopping experience, please upgrade now.
Overview
There are duet albums, and there are duo albums; the shimmering Raising Sand, which unites Robert Plant with Alison Krauss, is emphatically the latter. There's no coy interplay between these two stars, no he-said-she-said routines. Instead, the album presents two artists laboring creatively (and producer T Bone Burnett surely plays a big role, as well) to create a third, distinct thing. The magic of this encounter is that it draws the two out of their comfort zones: Imagine America's bluegrass sweetheart harmonizing on Benny Spellman's New Orleans R&B classic "Fortune Teller," or the Led Zep frontman wrapping his rock-god pipes around Mel Tillis's "Stick With Me, Baby." Or imagine either of them fronting an eerie, Eastern European-flavored treatment of Sam Philips's "Sister Rosetta Goes Before Us." Yes, there are plenty of surprises here. Not the least is the simpatico blend of the principals' voices. Krauss is as luminous as ever, finding new colors for her exquisitely controlled instrument, but Plant amazes with his low-key, knowing, and indeed humble performance. Acoustic settings aside, Raising Sand is not "The Battle of Evermore" stretched over 13 tracks. Keynotes come from later in Plant's career -- the haunting, Gene Clark-penned "Polly Come Home" is sonic kin to Plant's mid-'80s hit "Big Log," while the preponderance of rockabilly flavor suggests a midlife reminiscence of the Honeydrippers (see their churning version of the Everlys' "Gone Gone Gone"). The artfully off-the-cuff production by Burnett gains additional earthiness from ringers such as Marc Ribot and Mike Seeger, but it's hard to think about the instrumentation when Plant's and Krauss's voices are dancing together in close harmony.
Product Details
Release Date: | 10/23/2007 |
---|---|
Label: | Rounder / Umgd |
UPC: | 0011661907522 |
catalogNumber: | 619075 |
Rank: | 2387 |
Tracks
Album Credits
Performance Credits
Robert Plant Primary Artist,VocalsAlison Krauss Primary Artist,Fiddle,Vocals
Norman Blake Acoustic Guitar
Mike Seeger Autoharp
Marc Ribot Acoustic Guitar,Banjo,Dobro,Electric Guitar
T Bone Burnett Acoustic Guitar,Electric Guitar,6-string bass
Dennis Crouch Bass,Acoustic Bass
Greg Leisz Pedal Steel Guitar
Patrick Warren Keyboards,Pump Organ,Toy Piano
Jay Bellerose Drums
Riley Baugus Banjo
Technical Credits
Mel Tillis ComposerGene Clark Composer
Jimmy Page Composer
Robert Plant Composer
Tom Waits Composer
Don Everly Composer
Phil Everly Composer
Kathleen Brennan Composer
T Bone Burnett Producer
Milton Campbell Composer
Sam Phillips Composer
Rowland Salley Composer
Townes Van Zandt Composer
Rosa Lee Watson Composer
Steven Jurgensmeyer Art Direction
Mike Piersante Engineer
Naomi Neville Composer
Dorothy LaBostrie Composer
Paul Ackling Guitar Techician
Jason Wormer Engineer
Stacy Parrish Engineer
A.D. Watson Composer
Customer Reviews
Related Searches
Explore More Items
Richard Thompson's 1985 album Across a Crowded Room (his first album for a major label ...
Richard Thompson's 1985 album Across a Crowded Room (his first album for a major label
since Sunnyvista in 1979) stylistically picked up where his previous set, Hand of Kindness, had left off, and while it didn't break much in the ...
To commemorate 30 years since the release of Dylan's first Columbia album, a marathon tribute ...
To commemorate 30 years since the release of Dylan's first Columbia album, a marathon tribute
concert was held at New York's Madison Square Garden, with a galaxy of stars and voices from the past taking part. The cumulative effect of ...
Richard Thompson has been making good to brilliant albums since Fairport Convention cut their debut ...
Richard Thompson has been making good to brilliant albums since Fairport Convention cut their debut
in 1967, but anyone who knows his music well can tell you he's also a masterful live performer whose music takes on a greater sense ...
Pete Seeger turns up on this edition, as do such other folk veterans as Oscar ...
Pete Seeger turns up on this edition, as do such other folk veterans as Oscar
Brand, Sammy Walker, and Jim Glover (of Jim And Jean). Among the new generation, Shawn Colvin contributes I Don't Know Why, and Rod MacDonald sings ...
Few young singer/songwriters have quite so quickly won the sort of acclaim that Idaho-born Josh ...
Few young singer/songwriters have quite so quickly won the sort of acclaim that Idaho-born Josh
Ritter gained with his first self-released album, which won rave reviews, earned him slots opening for Bob Dylan, and made him a minor celebrity in ...
Eight years later, The McGarrigles have adopted a more new-age sound, with extensive synthesizer programming. ...
Eight years later, The McGarrigles have adopted a more new-age sound, with extensive synthesizer programming.
The sound may be lush and modern, but the sentiments are still deeply felt and the observations remain laser-sharp.
Recorded August. 14, 1982, at My Father's Place, a club in Roslyn, New York, this ...
Recorded August. 14, 1982, at My Father's Place, a club in Roslyn, New York, this
live show was taped for radio broadcast when Steve Forbert was on the road promoting his fourth and final Nemperor Records disc Steve Forbert, also ...
This live set was recorded in the Temple of Dendur at the Metropolitan Museum of ...
This live set was recorded in the Temple of Dendur at the Metropolitan Museum of
Art in New York with a full band and a stellar array of guests to celebrate Judy Collins' 50th anniversary as a recording artist. (This ...