Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0028947802051 Label: Decca Manufacturer: Decca Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Decca Release Date: October 29, 2007 Running Time: 57 minutes Sales Rank: 99 Studio: Decca
Editorial Review:
Amazon.co.uk ReviewLed Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant and bluegrass crooner Alison Krauss may not be the likeliest of musical combinations. But on this welcome collaboration album, they work beautifully together, wringing a kind of magic from other people’s songs. The key to the album is its versatility. Between them, Krauss and Plant can handle a vast repertoire on their own, and here they take on the lot, from folk laments and country soul to searing blues and upbeat rock & roll. Overseen by Elvis Costello producer T Bone Burnett and backed by high caliber musicians like guitarist Marc Ribot and multi-instrumentalist Mike Seeger, Raising Sand sees the duo create stellar covers of songs by Tom Waits, Townes Van Zandt, Mel Tillis and The Everly Brothers, among others. Highlights include a killer version of Roly Salley's 'Killing the Blues', and a cover of the Plant-Page collaboration 'Please Read the Letter,' though in truth, it’s difficult to find a weak spot on the whole album. --Danny McKenna
Rating: - Through The Morning, Through The Night, I want to listen to this album.
I bought this album because I loved Led Zeppelin and much of Robert Plant's solo work and because it kept being recommended to me by Amazon. I was a little put off at first as I know Alison Krauss is a country singer and it's not a genre of music I am so keen on or familiar with, but this gamble really paid off.
It's a brilliant album. It almost feels as if I shouldn't be listening as it sounds so intimate and gentle between the two of them as they sing, much as Mojo magazine said. ... Read More
Rating: - Damp squib
This didn't do it for me. I normally like Alison Krauss, but the tracks on this are bland and repetitive. Pretty much unlistenable.
Rating: - Wonderful - if I'm in the right mood
I bought the CD in my lunch hour at work and excitedly looked forward to playing it on my long drive home. My car has a pretty good audio system, but still too many of the subtleties on this record get lost in the ambient noise. Likewise through the iPod dock speakers in my kitchen.
But get in a quiet room, play it through some decent kit (and, excuse any hints of snobbery, this means a good four figures' worth) and it comes quietly, subtly but deliciously alive. In an era where some ... Read More
Rating: - Beyond Dad Rock
I really loved Zep and I'm very into most of Robert's solo work, but this is cringeworthy. It's music for dancin' Granddads. Sorry, Robert, but I'm just too young to want to feel that old. I just wish he wasn't devoting so much time to this project. It's not that I want a Zep reunion tour, because it would spoil the legend in a blitz of tacky media gimmicks, corporate sponsorship and a Zep that just isn't really Zep. It would be Plant and Page, with John Paul Jones. I guess he's more than earned the ... Read More
Rating: - Don't waste your money.
I can respect Robert Plant for his work with Led Zeppelin (nearly 40 years ago) and Alison Krauss is a major talent with the Union Station but this just does not work. The production by T Bone Burnett is good but the material is poor and boring. It neither one thing (Rock) nor another (Country/Bluegrass). Having read the reviews beforehand I borrowed this CD from my library prepared for a probable disappointment and it certainly lived up to that.
- Through The Morning, Through The Night, I want to listen to this album.
- Damp squib
- Wonderful - if I'm in the right mood