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Robert Plant and Alison Krauss reunite for new album
By Chris Cooke | Published on Thursday 12 August 2021
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss have announced that they are releasing another album together, fourteen years after their much acclaimed collaborative record ‘Raising Sand’. The new album, ‘Raise The Roof’, will be released by Warner Music on 19 Nov.
Produced, like ‘Raising Sand’, by T Bone Burnett, the new album features versions of songs written by the likes of Merle Haggard, Allen Toussaint, The Everly Brothers, Anne Briggs, Geeshie Wiley and Bert Jansch, plus a new Plant/Burnett penned track called ‘High And Lonesome’. There’s also a version of ‘Can’t Let Go’, originally recorded by Lucinda Williams, which is already streaming.
Says Krauss of the new album: “We wanted it to move. We brought other people in, other personalities within the band, and coming back together again in the studio brought a new intimacy to the harmonies”.
Plant, meanwhile, adds: “You hear something and you go ‘man, listen to that song, we got to sing that song!’ It’s a vacation, really – the perfect place to go that you least expected to find”.
Plant and Krauss will also tour together again next year on the back of the new album release.
