13 Songs, 57 Minutes
EDITORS’ NOTES
Robert Plant’s affection for roots music continues on this collaboration with bluegrass superstar Alison Krauss. Together, with producer T Bone Burnett, they explore a variety of roots styles, from the swamp blues of the opener, "Rich Woman," the pedal-steel fueled sorrow of "Killing the Blues" and quiet county desperation of Gene Clark's "Polly Come Home" to the lonesome despair of Townes Van Zandt's "Nothin'."
Raising Sand
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss
EDITORS’ NOTES
Robert Plant’s affection for roots music continues on this collaboration with bluegrass superstar Alison Krauss. Together, with producer T Bone Burnett, they explore a variety of roots styles, from the swamp blues of the opener, "Rich Woman," the pedal-steel fueled sorrow of "Killing the Blues" and quiet county desperation of Gene Clark's "Polly Come Home" to the lonesome despair of Townes Van Zandt's "Nothin'."
| TITLE | TIME | ||
|---|---|---|---|
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Rich Woman
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4:03 | ||
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Killing the Blues
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4:15 | ||
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Sister Rosetta Goes Before Us
|
3:25 | ||
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Polly Come Home
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5:36 | ||
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Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On)
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3:32 | ||
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Through the Morning, Through the Night
|
4:00 | ||
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Please Read the Letter
|
5:53 | ||
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Trampled Rose
|
5:33 | ||
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Fortune Teller
|
4:30 | ||
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Stick With Me Baby
|
2:49 | ||
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Nothin'
|
5:32 | ||
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Let Your Loss Be Your Lesson
|
4:01 | ||
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Your Long Journey
|
3:54 |
About Robert Plant
As Led Zeppelin’s longhaired, bare-chested frontman, Robert Plant was the archetypical rock god. Born in Staffordshire, England, and raised on Delta blues, Plant—as a writer and singer, both with Zep and solo—braided the visceral impact of hard rock with Eastern classical music, Celtic folk, and mysticism, reshaping rock music not as a vehicle for youth culture, but for myth. A powerful vocalist who once said he wanted his voice to cut like a tenor sax, Plant also helped define the modern rock vocal—wailing, penetrative—and influenced just about anyone who ever tried to keep rank with an electric guitar, from Jack White and Eddie Vedder to Axl Rose and Chris Cornell. His best '70s turns with Zeppelin remain immortal (has any singer turned the blues inside out the way Plant does on “Black Dog”?), but just as interesting are muse-following moments like 1988’s “Tall Cool One,” in which he keeps pace with New Wave, or 2007’s Grammy-winning collaboration with folk singer Alison Krauss, Raising Sand, which revealed a plainspokenness barely hinted at with Zeppelin. Speaking to Musician in 1990, Plant joked that he’d never tried to copy anyone: “It just developed, until it became the girlish whine that it is today.”
- HOMETOWN
- Birmingham, England
- GENRE
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Rock
- BORN
- August 20, 1948
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