Robert Plant | Alison Krauss – Raise The Roof

27-11-2021

Alison Krauss (Decatur, Illinois, July 23, 1971) is an American bluegrass singer and violinist. She has received twenty-seven Grammy Awards for her work and has received several platinum records. Her debut album, "Too Late to Cry" (1987), was released when she was 16 years old. Krauss collaborates with the traditional bluegrass ensemble Union Station. She also recorded covers of a number of songs by other artists, including The Beatles. In 2007 the album "Raising Sand" was released on which she can be heard together with Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant. Krauss and Plant gave a concert on 14 May 2008 in the Heineken Music Hall in Amsterdam. A second album with Robert Plant, "Raise the Roof", was released in November 2021. Robert Anthony Plant (born 20 August 1948) is an English singer and songwriter, best known as the lead singer and lyricist of the English rock band Led Zeppelin for all of its existence from 1968 up until 1980, more specifically until the death of fellow former bandmate and late iconic rock drummer John Bonham. In 2007 and 2008, Plant recorded and performed with bluegrass star Alison Krauss. A duet album, "Raising Sand", was released on 23 October 2007 on Rounder Records. The album, recorded in Nashville and Los Angeles and produced by T Bone Burnett, includes performances of lesser-known material from R&B, blues, folk and country songwriters including Mel Tillis, Townes Van Zandt, Gene Clark, Tom Waits, Doc Watson, Little Milton and the Everly Brothers. The song "Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On)" from Raising Sand won a Grammy for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals in 2008. "Raising Sand" also won Album of the Year at the 51st Grammy Awards. The album has been successful critically and commercially, and was certified platinum on 4 March 2008. Plant and Krauss began an extended tour of the US and Europe in April 2008, playing music from "Raising Sand" and other American roots music as well as reworked Led Zeppelin tunes. On Friday 19 November 2021 Alison Krauss and Robert Plant released their new (studio) 12 track album, produced by T Bone Burnett entitled "Raise the Roof", a follow-up to the duo's previous million-selling collaboration album "Raising Sand" (2007) the 2021 release date coincided with the duo's global live stream broadcast direct from Nashville's Sound Emporium Studios. "Raise the Roof" is the second collaborative studio album by British singer-songwriter Robert Plant and American bluegrass-country singer Alison Krauss. The album was released on November 19, 2021, by Rounder Records and Concord Records in the United States and Warner Music for the rest of the world. "Raising Sand", the first collaborative effort between Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, seemed to come from out of the blue in 2007. The pairing of golden rock god and bluegrass troubadour was as unexpected as the album's subdued, nuanced Americana, a sound that existed at the crossroads of the past and the present. It seemed like lightning in a bottle, the kind of magic that couldn't be reproduced, and the subsequent decade or so suggested that suspicion might be true. Plant and Krauss attempted a sequel a couple of times during those ten years, leaving the project behind when the moment didn't seem right. Suddenly, the pieces came together at the end of the 2010s, as Calexico's "Quattro (World Drifts In)" gave Krauss insight into how to proceed with a new record. Soon, she and Plant reunited with producer T-Bone Burnett along with a few "Raising Sand" session musicians, plus some new hands such as Buddy Miller and Bill Frisell. The resulting "Raise the Roof" is something of a wonder : a record that proves lightning sometimes does strike twice. If the slow, murky crawl of "Raising Sand" came as a soft shock in 2007, the surprise of "Raise the Roof" is that Plant and Krauss can reconnect with that spirit without pandering or replication. Aside from the cinematic atmosphere sculpted by Burnett, there are a few connective tissues between the two records, both contain songs written by Allen Toussaint and the Everly Brothers (here, it's "Trouble with My Lover" and "The Price of Love," respectively), but the true unifier is how Plant and Krauss create a unified vision of roots music that feels respectful yet untethered to the past. Here, they expand their purview to include British folk, Anne Briggs' "Go Your Way" and Bert Jansch's "It Don't Bother Me" are highlights, and barroom country ("Going Where the Lonely Go," a mid-career masterpiece from Merle Haggard), shaping the two styles to sound as airy and deep as their interpretations of Americana. Raise the Roof often moves at a deliberate pace, the liveliest moments of the Plant/Burnett co-write "High and Lonesome," which is the only original here, and Brenda Burns' "Somebody Was Watching Over Me", arrive at the very end of the record, but even with the modest tempo, the album feels joyful. There's a palpable pleasure in hearing Plant and Krauss harmonize and trade lines. It often feels like they're delighted that they're making an album that lives up to their debut, and it's hard not to share their thrill. Fourteen years after their first collaboration, the unlikely duo reunites for a well-curated selection of covers that spans generations, while adding their fascinating mystique to every one. The success of Robert Plant and Alison Krauss' Grammy-winning 2007 record Raising Sand set a lofty bar for their bewitching energy as a duo. Fourteen years later, Raise the Roof maintains their careful simplicity, rising to the challenge of releasing another record of mostly cover songs that are still impactful and original. When their talents are interlaced, Plant and Krauss are masters at dusting off generations-old tracks and making them saunter to a fresh, personal rhythm. Between his Led Zeppelin roots, his love of 1950s doo-wop, and a decades-long passion for Asian and South Asian music, Robert Plant has tried many musical derivatives on for size. Equal parts glimmering golden ringlets and devilish rock'n'roll mystique, his career is one of inarguable expansion and divergence. It was incomplete, however, until a 2004 Lead Belly tribute concert where he met bluegrass singer Alison Krauss, the lifetime Grand Ole Opry member, who, until this year, held the record for most Grammy awards won by a woman, having won her first at age 18. Despite seemingly polarized genre identifications, the pair's "almost telepathic" connection was immediate, first yielding the effulgent Raising Sand. Produced by T Bone Burnett, the collection of 12 covers and one Jimmy Page/Robert Plant original showcased how the two musicians coalesced when venturing into what Plant dubbed the "music of the mountains." "Raise the Roof", also produced by Burnett, is the dark and spacey counterpart to Plant and Krauss' first release, with covers that span from modern indie-folk band Calexico to early Delta blues musician Geeshie Wiley. Their cover of Calexico's "Quattro (World Drifts In)," the song that ignited Krauss' desire for a second duo record, suspends Plant and Krauss in a personal nomadic catharsis, delivered with such ardency that it is as if the two penned the track themselves. Similarly, despite the insidious nature of Wiley's "Last Kind Words Blues," Krauss' voice soars above it all, like a sunflower straining towards sunlight. The opposing tones of Krauss and Plant, coupled with Marc Ribot's gentle banjo plucks and Stuart Duncan's hypnotizing mandolin, harkens back to Plant's galvanizing vocal symmetry with his other female duet partner, the immortal folk singer and Fairport Convention frontwoman Sandy Denny, the only guest vocalist on any Led Zeppelin record. Plant and Krauss' rendition of the Anne Briggs classic "Go Your Way" feels like a dark and stormy folkian B-side to "Led Zeppelin III"'s crown jewel "That's the Way," both haunting and divine. The stylistic changes, such as the ebbs and flows of Plant's soft rasp with an emphasized drum beat and sorrowful pedal steel, thoughtfully reinvent the track as a farewell letter that feels miles from the original. Plant is persuasive and comfortable on "Searching for My Love," the softest and most innocent track on this intimately dark record. The bridge's magmatic guitar riffs pair tremendously with his boundless vocals. Written by Burnett and Plant, "High and Lonesome" is the zenith of Raise the Roof, with the weathered energy of a dirt-dusted cowboy boot stomping the stage. The clapping percussion dances the track into a fireside incantation; Plant chants "Will she still be mine?" and "There I must find my love" as if casting a spell, while violins swirl up from the cauldron of his lower register. Plant and Krauss' paralyzing and disquieting reimagination of Appalachian-life raconteur Ola Belle Reed's "You Led Me to the Wrong" continues the record's theme of revealing their darker side. The album falls into a valley of platitudes with the final number, "Somebody Was Watching Over Me." The Brenda Burns cover falls short, with a haphazard piano part and incongruous backing vocals. "Raise the Roof" should have ended one track sooner, on Merle Haggard and Dean Holloway's "Going Where the Lonely Go." Glinting with Russ Pahl's pedal steel touches, it's Krauss' most empyreal moment, conjuring the lonesome dreamscape imagery simply by her stunning approach as a vocalist. Plant and Krauss remain an unexpected pairing, at least on its face. But what beauty lies beneath. With versions that bend and reshape the originals, they once again leave their imprint on a well-curated songbook that suits their mystical nature. They dig deeper into the corners of American music and by doing so, come up with something far more rare and incisive about its past. 


 1 Quattro (World Drifts In)

Bass - Viktor Krauss
Drums, Percussion, Handclaps [Claps] - Jay Bellerose
Guitar - Bill Frisell, Marc Ribot
Jarana, Handclaps [Claps] - David Hidalgo
Pedal Steel Guitar [Pedal Steel] - Russell Pahl
Written-By - Joey Burns, John Convertino
Zither [Dolceola] - Jeff Taylor


4:35


2 The Price Of Love


Banjo - Stuart Duncan
Bass - Dennis Crouch
Drums, Percussion - Jay Bellerose
Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar - Marc Ribot
Mandolin [Electric Mandolin] - Buddy Miller
Written-By - Don Everly/Phil Everly


4:50


3 Go Your Way


Acoustic Guitar - T-Bone Burnett
Bass - Viktor Krauss
Drums, Percussion - Jay Bellerose
Electric Guitar - Marc Ribot
Jarana - David Hidalgo
Pedal Steel Guitar [Pedal Steel] - Russell Pahl
Written-By - Anne Briggs
Zither [Dolceola], Celesta [Celeste] - Jeff Taylor


5:07


4 Trouble With My Lover


Baritone Guitar, Requinto Guitar - Marc Ribot
Bass - Dennis Crouch
Drums - Jay Bellerose
Electric Guitar - Buddy Miller
Strings - Alison Krauss
Written-By - Allen Toussaint


4:03


5 Searching For My Love


Bass - Dennis Crouch
Drums, Percussion - Jay Bellerose
Electric Guitar - Marc Ribot
Electric Guitar, Harmony Vocals - T-Bone Burnett
Written-By - Bobby Moore


4:03


6 Can't Let Go


Acoustic Guitar, Handclaps [Claps] - David Hidalgo
Double Bass [Upright Bass] - Viktor Krauss
Drums, Percussion, Handclaps [Claps] - Jay Bellerose
Electric Bass - Russell Pahl
Electric Guitar - Bill Frisell
Written-By - Randy Weeks


3:41


6 It Don't Bother Me


Bass - Viktor Krauss
Drums, Percussion, Handclaps [Claps] - Jay Bellerose
Electric Guitar - Marc Ribot
Guitar [Electro-Acoustic Guitar], Handclaps [Claps] - David Hidalgo
Pedal Steel Guitar [Pedal Steel] - Russell Pahl
Written-By - Bert Jansch
Zither [Dolceola], Marxophone - Jeff Taylor


5:06


7 You Led Me To The Wrong


6-String Bass - T-Bone Burnett
Acoustic Guitar - Marc Ribot
Bass - Dennis Crouch
Drums, Percussion - Jay Bellerose
Fiddle - Stuart Duncan
Written-By - Ola Belle Reed


4:17


8 Last Kind Words Blues


Bass - Dennis Crouch
Drums, Percussion - Jay Bellerose
Electric Guitar, Banjo - Marc Ribot
Mandolin, Cello, Fiddle - Stuart Duncan
Resonator Guitar - Colin Linden
Written-By - Geeshie Wiley


4:06


9 High And Lonesome


Accordion [Bass Accordion] - Jeff Taylor
Bass - Dennis Crouch
Drums, Percussion, Handclaps [Claps] - Jay Bellerose
Electric Guitar, Mellotron, Harmony Vocals - T-Bone Burnett
Guitar, Electric Bass [Hofner Bass], Handclaps [Claps] - Marc Ribot
Mellotron - Viktor Krauss
Pedal Steel Guitar [Pedal Steel], Guitar - Russell Pahl
Written-By - Robert Plant, T-Bone Burnett
4:33


10 Going Where The Lonely Go


Bass - Dennis Crouch
Drums - Jay Bellerose
Electric Guitar - Buddy Miller, Marc Ribot
Pedal Steel Guitar [Pedal Steel] - Russell Pahl
Written-By - Dean Holloway, Merle Haggard


4:10


11 Somebody Was Watching Over Me


6-String Bass - Russell Pahl
Backing Vocals - Lucinda Williams
Bass - Viktor Krauss
Drums - Jay Bellerose
Electric Guitar - Marc Ribot
Electric Guitar, Backing Vocals - T-Bone Burnett
Guitar [Electro-Acoustic Guitar] - David Hidalgo
Piano - Jeff Taylor
Written-By - Brenda Burns


5:03


Recorded At Sound Emporium, Top Cat Studio, Blackbird Studio, Nashville, Tennessee.


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