Raising Sand | Robert Plant, Alison Krauss | Bill's Fifty Words or Less

Raising Sand | Robert Plant, Alison Krauss | Unexpected classic.....

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Raising Sand

	Raising Sand Robert Plant, Alison Krauss Rounder, 2007 average customer review:based on 507 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Bill's Fifty Words or Less

Tennessee mountains,
Mississippi mud,
Honeysuckle wine and
Texas blood.
Rhododendron blooms,
Rusty nails,
Empty rooms and
Mournful wails.
Church door cracks,
Long dusty roads,
Broken hearts and
Heavy loads.
Sneering guitars,
Rattling bones,
Voices from heaven,
Black snake moan.
Funeral cortege and
A Harley ride home.

Mesmerizing Alt-country-bluegrass-rockabilly-gospel-blues Masterwork.

Unexpected classic.....

"Raising Sand" is the haunting and brilliant collaboration between Robert Plant and Allison Krauss; it opens with my favorite track - the Sam Phillips song "Sister Rosetta Goes Before Us", which quickly demonstrates that there's a lot more going on here than the "Led Zeppelin goes Country" preconception that the notion of these two artists working together conjures up. The album continues with track after track enjoyment and surprise. This is yet another triumph for producer T Bone Burnett, who has incisively crafted a breath-taking soundscape, supported by some of the finest musicians working today, where the whole is deliriously more than the sum of the parts. It all sounds so effortless that you know it must have been quite the opposite - dreamy and seductive, this is an unexpected classic.

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Rock God meets Bluegrass Queen

I admit the idea seemed kind of silly: matching a rock God with a bluegrass Goddess -- each amazing in their own way but, together? I just wasn't sure.
But good God almighty, there's some serious magic at work here.
Haunting, melancholy, harmonious -- hard to describe but there's something divine in the notes. The pairing is odd but works in a way that's really quite amazing. And seeing them live -- whoa!
If you like deep, moody music (or either of these two musical giants on their own) you must give this album a try. Granted, it's not Zep and it's not Union Station bluegrass -- but that's the point. Together they create something different, a mood... a feeling... an emotion. It's grand. Hurray for the odd pairings! First Emmylou Harris and Mark Knopfler and now this... Raising Sand? No... Raising the bar!

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observation

why is there no color at all anywhere on the case or liner notes? It's like viewing the world on a black and white tv set -everything is in various shades of gray. Pretty odd in this day and age to say the least.

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