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Robert Plant and Alison Krauss met at a tribute concert to Leadbelly, and decided to collaborate. They crafted an album together in 2007 titled Raising Sand. The album featured production by T-Bone Burnett and songwriting by Plant, Tom Waits, Sam Phillips, Townes Van Zandt and Gene Clark among others.
Throughout 2008, Plant and Krauss, along with Burnett, toured in support of the album. The tour was critically acclaimed.
On Feb. 8, 2009, Raising Sand took Album of the Year honors at the Grammy awards. Read more on Last.fm
Robert Plant defied critics pre-concieved notions with this T-Bone Burnett helmed gem. There is not a thread of rock n roll bombast, only the vein that bled into it. Krause is maybe the most distinct and haunting vocalist of the last hundred years. Together, they conjure up the ghost of The Everly Brothers, a pinch of Muscle Shoals and a lot of stark, Flannery O’Conner esq wisdom. Magnificent.
Beautiful, unique music. Two of the most recognizable voices of the last 50 years writing folk rock with T-Bone Burnett? More please.