Robert Plant
Jo chats to rock legend Robert Plant about his new album with Alison Krauss, Raise The Roof.
Jo chats to rock legend Robert Plant about his new album with Alison Krauss, Raise The Roof.
Raise The Roof is out November 19 and sees the former Led Zeppelin frontman Plant and 27-time Grammy-winner Krauss reunited after some fourteen years, following the historic success of their first collaboration Raising Sand (2007). That reached #2 on the Official UK Chart and earned six Grammy Awards including Album and Record of the Year.
Like its predecessor, Raise The Roof was produced by T Bone Burnett. The album features twelve new recordings of songs by legends and unsung heroes including Merle Haggard, Allen Toussaint, The Everly Brothers, Anne Briggs, Geeshie Wiley, Bert Jansch and more. Other highlights include a Plant-Burnett original, βHigh and Lonesome,β and the classic βCanβt Let Go,β written by Randy Weeks and first recorded by Lucinda Williams.
The songs selected for Raise The Roof alternately reflect deep-rooted influences and new revelations. For his part, Robert Plant was keen to introduce the English folk traditions he has loved since adolescence, while Krauss cites hearing βQuattro (World Drift In)β by the American group Calexico, as βthe moment I knew weβd make another album.β
βWe wanted it to move,β Krauss continues. βWe brought other people in, other personalities within the band, and coming back together again in the studio brought a new intimacy to the harmonies.β
Plant adds: βYou hear something and you go βMan, listen to that song, we got to sing that song!β Itβs a vacation, reallyβthe perfect place to go that you least expected to find.β
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