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Raising Sand | 
| Artist: Robert Plant And Alison Krauss
Label: Decca
Category: Music
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Rating:  112 reviews
Sales Rank: 66
Media: Audio CD
Running Time: 57
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.4
UPC: 028947802051
EAN: 0028947802051
ASIN: B000Y932GQ
Release Date: October 29, 2007
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| Tracks:
| • | Rich Woman | | • | Killing The Blues | | • | Sister Rosetta Goes Before Us | | • | Polly Come Home | | • | Gone, Gone, Gone (Done Moved On) | | • | Through The Morning, Through The Night | | • | Please Read The Letter | | • | Trampled Rose | | • | Fortune Teller | | • | Stick With Me Baby | | • | Nothin' | | • | Let Your Loss Be Your Lesson | | • | Your Long Journey |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant and bluegrass crooner Alison Krauss may not be the likeliest of musical combinations. But on this welcome collaboration album, they work beautifully together, wringing a kind of magic from other people's songs. The key to the album is its versatility. Between them, Krauss and Plant can handle a vast repertoire on their own, and here they take on the lot, from folk laments and country soul to searing blues and upbeat rock & roll. Overseen by Elvis Costello producer T Bone Burnett and backed by high caliber musicians like guitarist Marc Ribot and multi-instrumentalist Mike Seeger, Raising Sand sees the duo create stellar covers of songs by Tom Waits, Townes Van Zandt, Mel Tillis and The Everly Brothers, among others. Highlights include a killer version of Roly Salley's "Killing the Blues", and a cover of the Plant-Page collaboration "Please Read the Letter," though in truth, it's difficult to find a weak spot on the whole album. --Danny McKenna
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| Customer Reviews: Read 107 more reviews...
 Disappointed September 25, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Heard great things about this album over some period of time before I bought it, heard Gone, gone, gone and thought Hmmmmm, I'd give it a go.....
Can't say much more than I think it's just a mediocre musical outing by two accomplished performers.
It's not the electric mix of eclectic styles that people make it out to be, it's not a ground-breaking album, it's never going to be in my top ten fave albums [or any list of fave albums].
It is a raggle-taggle collection of songs, some a bit too similar to its partners on the album to make it an overall half-decent listen, it is performed reasonably well, but it lacks any dynamic or soul......all in all not my cup of tea.
If I was on Juke Box Jury I might say I'll give it foive, but as I can only mark up to 5 it gets a 1 and I'll look to pass it on as a gift to some unsuspecting member of my wife's family.
 So Good!!! The Golden god did it again!! September 9, 2008
Since I got my deliver this morning I can't stop playing it. Their voices work so well together, the music is absorbing and it brings you a very special energy.
And if you want a little bit more of the Golden god buy also Might Rearranger another fantastic CD of Plant.
A dreadful waste of talent - and music buyer's money! June 22, 2008
4 out of 12 found this review helpful
Sadly someone obviously suggested to Robert Plant that this would be a good idea....recording a (mostly) countryesque album with Alison Krauss. They were wrong!! I have no problem with Plant (or anyone else for that matter) trying new things, but please..... this was a bad idea that should have stayed just that.... an idea!! Why on earth so many people feel the need to heap praise on this album is beyond me - it has no redeming qualities to my ears whatsoever - even if Robert Plant is involved.......come to think of it that old story of the Emporer's new clothes comes to mind!!
Dark, sexy Americana June 9, 2008
When two of the most distinctive and transfixing voices came together, the result was always going to be interesting but the New Orleans genius T Bone Burnett has picked some fabulous and hypnotic songs which work perfectly. From the siren gypsy call of Sister Rosetta Goes Before Us to the raw power and pain of Nothin, to the bluesy Fortune Teller, this album gets under your skin and into your bloodstream. Absolutely bewitching. And if you can get to see Robert and Alison live, do whatever it takes to get tickets - they just glow onstage and the songs pack even more of a punch live.
musical candy! May 17, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Alison Krauss and Robert Plant get together for a unique album that just gets better as it goes on. Of worthy note is 'just read the letter' To my mind it was such an unlikely partnership but it really works and country/ rock never sounded so good together a worthy addition for any collection.
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