Posted on 06/06/2021 3:41:33 AM PDT by nickcarraway
A new album from Robert Plant and Alison Krauss is reportedly in the works.
The duo famously collaborated on 2007’s Raising Sand, which earned platinum sales and took home five Grammy awards, including Album of the Year.
During a recent episode of the Everyone Loves Guitar podcast, Greg Leisz, the pedal steel guitarist who played on Raising Sand, mentioned he’d heard material earmarked for the new LP.
“I actually just recently heard a song from the upcoming record,” Leisz admitted. “[Plant] is doing another record with - has done another record - with Alison Krauss and I heard a track from it the other day.”
According to Leisz, the song, which he described as “incredible,” was titled “Searching For My Baby.” “When you hear that, it’s going to blow your mind,” the musician declared. “It’s fantastic.”
The latest information regarding a second Plant/Krauss collaboration aligns with details revealed last year. A May 2020 story in Uncut magazine about Lucinda Williams noted that the country singer had just gotten back from a recording session with the duo in Nashville. The magazine added that T-Bone Burnett, who produced Raising Sand, was also with them in the studio.
During a BBC radio interview two months later, Plant jokingly referred to Williams as “a little tinker,” before admitting “there’s all sorts of stuff rumbling and smoking left, right and centre right now” regarding another album with Krauss.
Besides Raising Sand, the Led Zeppelin frontman and bluegrass-country singer also worked together on the 2015 single “The Light of Christmas Day,” which was included on the soundtrack to the feature film Love the Coopers. The most recent studio albums from each artist - Carry Fire by Plant and Windy City by Krauss - came out in 2017.
I looked it up, I saw them in 2008. It was fantastic.
I like Alison far more than Robert
I like Lucida better too.
go way bob.
I thought T-Bone was in accounting.
Everybody loves Lucido.
Two tracks:
Chairlift to Heaven
Dazed and Confused: An Homage to Joe Biden
My thoughts exactly.
I listened to the first one, but I didn’t like any of the songs.
Two more tracks:
Immigrants Stay Off My Lawn!
Shuffle On
I never heard it, but people said it was good.
Their first album was quite possibly the most perfect pairing of voices ever. Plant is still an amazing vocslist, even in his 70’s.
They’re both outstanding performers, but one either likes songs or doesn’t.
I only discovered Raising Sand last year. Wow. Killin the Blues. Gorgeous. One of those songs that makes you think you can sing :)
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Black Dog (better than the LZ version!!!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogMBgUVPMXU&t=1s
no- that’s coco the monkey
that was an embarrassing version of the song.
LOL!
What a maroon with that comment.
One of my late friends worked in a chiropractic clinic in an affluent suburb of Nashville. During her tenure at this establishment, she was brought into contact with several famous musicians. (It’s Nashville after all). One of which was Mr. Robert Plant. She said he was the nicest guy you’d ever want to meet. He arrived early for his appointment, and when the staff wasn’t ready for him, he just sat in the waiting room and chatted with her. She said if you didn’t know who he was, you’d have no idea that he was very rich, very famous, and had been a part of one of the most influential rock bands of all time. He was just a kind older dude.
(Unlike Alan Jackson who was a pompous ass all the time).
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