ROBERT PLANT & ALISON KRAUSS – Raise The Roof (Deluxe Edition) (2021)
Tomorrow Nov. 19 ROBERT PLANT & ALISON KRAUSS celebrate the historic release of “Raise The Roof“, their first new album together in more than 14 years. The record was produced by T-Bone Burnett, who also worked with Plant and Krauss on their successful first album together ‘Raising Sand’.
The two singers were joined in the studio by drummer Jay Bellerose, guitarists Marc Ribot, David Hidalgo, Bill Frisell, and Buddy Miller, bassists Dennis Crouch and Viktor Krauss, and pedal steel guitarist Russ Pahl.
Building on the Grammy-sweeping, millions-selling success of 2007’s ‘Raising Sand’, “‘Raise The Roof’ almost magically reclaims the spectral tone of ‘Raising Sand’, then finds ways to expand on it, delving further into both quiet subtleties and wailing intensity.
Following the monumental debut of “Raising Sand”, which won all six Grammy Awards for which it was nominated (including “Album” and “Record Of The Year”), Plant and Krauss are still proof that sometimes the best things come from unlikely collaborators.
Across “Raise The Roof”, the Rock And Roll Hall Of Famer and 27-time Grammy-winning Bluegrass Hall Of Famer step further outside their comfort zone, expanding their unexpected, unparalleled partnership in remarkable new directions.
While sessions for the album began in Nashville in November 2019, wrapping just weeks before the world went into lockdown, Krauss remembers sending Plant the Randy Weeks/Lucinda Williams classic “Can’t Let Go” at least 10 years ago — and it seems like time hasn’t passed at all.
Elsewhere on “Raise The Roof”, Plant and Krauss reimagine songs from Merle Haggard, Allen Toussaint, Everly Bros., Anne Briggs, Geeshie Wiley, Ola Belle Reed, Brenda Burns and more, with arrangements even more evocative and hypnotic than those on ‘Raising Sand’.
Highly Recommended
01 – Quattro (World Drifts In)
02 – The Price of Love
03 – Go Your Way
04 – Trouble with My Lover
05 – Searching For My Love
06 – Can’t Let Go
07 – It Don’t Bother Me
08 – You Led Me to The Wrong
09 – Last Kind Words Blues
10 – High and Lonesome
11 – Going Where the Lonely Go
12 – Somebody Was Watching Over Me
13 – My Heart Would Know
14 – You Can’t Rule Me
Robert Plant – vocals
Alison Krauss – vocals, guitar
Jay Bellerose – drums
Marc Ribot, David Hidalgo, Bill Frisell, Buddy Miller – guitar
Dennis Crouch, Viktor Krauss – bass
Russ Pahl – pedal steel guitar
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