Robert Plant - Raise The Roof

Robert Plant and Alison Krauss’ 2007 collaborative album Raising Sand remains, nearly a decade and a half after its release, a landmark record in roots music. The LP earned Plant, of Led Zeppelin fame, and reigning bluegrass queen Krauss five Grammys at the 2009 ceremony, including the coveted Album of the Year trophy, among many other accolades. The album also offered a new vision for how artists could work within an already nebulous genre, with the two recording favourite songs new and old for a collection that still sounds timeless.
Plant and Krauss reconvene on Raise the Roof, seeming, somehow, to pick right back up where they left off. Still present are the pair’s intimacy, their contrasting but complementary vocal styles and, notably, the gentle hand of producer T Bone Burnett, who also helmed Raising Sand. While much remains the same, Raise the Roof is a decidedly larger affair than its predecessor, even in its quieter moments, thanks likely to each artist’s growth via work with other projects (Band of Joy and Sensational Space Shifters for Plant; long-time band Union Station for Krauss) in the intervening decade-plus. Covered artists include Calexico (“Quattro [World Drifts In]”), Allen Toussaint (“Trouble With My Lover”) and Merle Haggard (“Going Where the Lonely Go”), with the album’s tracklist revealing a catholic breadth of influences. The duo are backed by some of Nashville’s finest players, including guitarists Buddy Miller and Bill Frisell.

Tracklisting

Quattro (World Drifts In) (4:35)
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)

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Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Quattro (World Drifts In) (Official Audio)

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Key	Value
Wikipedia URL	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raise_the_Roof_(album)
Format	Vinyl 2× LP Album Limited Edition Stereo (Red Translucent)
Label	Warner Music
Catalog Number	0190296548857
Notes	Amazon Europe limited release. Comes in a gatefold sleeve with alternate red artwork. Issued with plain black inner sleeves (discobags), both with the catalog number. ℗ & © 2021 Hokker, Inc and Trolcharm Limited. Under exclusive licence to Warner Music UK Limited for the World excluding USA and Canada Made in The Netherlands. T Bone Burnett appears courtesy of Verse Forecast Bill Frisell appears courtesy of Blue Note Records Lucinda Williams appears courtesy of Highway 20 Records Runouts: 34476 1A, 34476 1B, 34476 1C and 34476 1D are stamped, everything else is etched.
Discogs URL	Robert Plant - Raise The Roof