Product Code: 1166101541
Artist: Robert Plant | Alison Krauss
Origin: Germany
Label: Warner Music UK (2021)
Format: 2 X LP
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Condition:
Cover: M
Record: M
Genre: Country , Folk Rock , Rock N

Raise The Roof

Brand new sealed double album housed in a gatefold cover.

From blue-eyed soul to English folk, the unlikely dream team’s second instalment of covers is a welcome dose of musical reassurance

It seems lifetimes ago that Plant and Krauss released their six-Grammy-winning album of duets, Raising Sand (2007). That year, the first iPhone came out and Led Zeppelin reunited for two hours. This long-awaited second instalment of enthralling covers is a dose of musical reassurance that, despite the turmoil in which we find ourselves, some things remain constant. Roots music and rhythm and blues have always played a long game in matters of the human condition.

What worked a treat then continues to work now: Plant dialled down to a sultry croon or, on Bobby Moore and the Rhythm Aces’ Searching for My Love, to a yearning kind of blue-eyed soul, Krauss’s country tones alternately limpid, frisky or timeworn, T Bone Burnett producing deftly. A superlative band creates nuanced tension or percolates away discreetly as required.

What’s new is an uptick in British folk, with versions of Bert Jansch’s It Don’t Bother Me (rolling, resonant) and Anne Briggs’s Go Your Way (fleshed out, electric). Krauss brought in Lucinda Williams’s Can’t Let Go and the whole collection of burnished, lesser-known gems kicks off with a contemporary tune, Calexico’s Quattro (World Drifts In).
Quattro (World Drifts In) 4:55
    The Price Of Love 4:50
    Go Your Way 5:07
    Trouble With My Lover 4:03
    Searching For My Love 4:03
    Can't Let Go 3:41
    It Don't Bother Me 5:06
    You Led Me To The Wrong 4:17
    Last Kind Words Blues 4:06
    High And Lonesome 4:33
    Going Where The Lonely Go 4:10
    Somebody Was Watching Over Me 5:03