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Whistle Stopper - Raising Sand
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List Price: $18.98
Our Price: $7.72
Your Save: $ 11.26 ( 59% )
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Manufacturer: Rounder
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0011661907522
Label: Rounder
Manufacturer: Rounder
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Rounder
Release Date: 2007-10-23
Studio: Rounder
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Summary: Absolutely Haunting!
Comment: I think Led-heads who are excited about a new Robert Plant CD will be extremely disappointed. Mr. Plant is no longer a spring chicken or a wild rooster for that matter. He's a mature artist looking to spread his wings. I think he's found a new groove! Isn't that truly the sign of a great and lasting artist? Someone who can shed their skin, try on something new and make it fit like a glove.
Plant's voice is so bluesy here and very mellow. Kraus, whom I know very little about provides a wonderful balance. I believe this will become a classic. I thoroughly enjoy listening to this CD; before I know it, it's over. It's as if it flows effortlessly from the beginning to the end of the disc; one piece of work with a dozen punctuations!
I'm sure those who love this CD are wondering if the duo will record again. This is one of those cases where I almost hope they don't. This is a kind of stand-alone masterpiece in my opinion. Remake Gone With The Wind and it will BOMB. Try to copy the Stones or The Beatles and it will BOMB. Hey, they even tried to make a go of a sequel to Blair Witch Project, and it BOMBED. Got it? You don't mess with singular perfection.
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Summary: Excellent Album
Comment: What a Great Combo.....Robert Plant & Allison Krauss!!
She has Perfect Pitch and He has the blues!!!
2 Giants of the Industry!!!
And What a Great Selection of Songs!!!
2 Gene Clark Songs
1 Tom Waitts Song
and The Everly Bros.!!!!
Great Album!!
Its' a Must Have!!!
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Summary: Awesome & surprising
Comment: When I first heard about this pairing, I have to admit I was pretty doubtful. All doubts were vanished after a first listen. This is a brilliant pairing and an awesome CD.
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Summary: Category Killer
Comment: I have seen this CD classified as country, bluegrass, pop, folk, blues, and American, but it doesn't seem to fit any of those. The duets are more than just two people singing, they weave in and around each other - blending here, harmonizing there. On top of that, the backing band is superb. This CD is a keeper.
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Summary: smashin'
Comment: I didn't know who this guy was until my son told me. He does a wonderful job as a duet with Alison Krauss. I can't get their songs out of my head; especially, Gone.
This video won an award on CMT Country Music Award.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Perhaps only the fantasy duo of King Kong and Bambi could be a more bizarre pairing than Robert Plant and Alison Krauss. Yet on Raising Sand, their haunting and brilliant collaboration, the Led Zeppelin screamer and Nashville's most hypnotic song whisperer seem made for each other. This, however, is not the howling Plant of "Whole Lotta Love," but a far more precise and softer singer than even the one who emerged with Dreamland (2002). No matter that Plant seems so subdued as to be on downers, for that's one of the keys to this most improbable meeting of musical galaxies--almost all of it seems slowed down, out of time, otherworldly, and at times downright David Lynch-ian, the product of an altered consciousness. Yet probably the main reason it all works so well is the choice of producer T Bone Burnette, the third star of the album, who culled mostly lesser-known material from some of the great writers of blues, country, folk, gospel, and R&B, including Tom Waits, Townes Van Zandt, Milt Campbell, the Everly Brothers, Sam Phillips, and A.D. and Rosa Lee Watson. At times, Burnette's spare and deliberate soundscape--incisively crafted by guitarists Marc Ribot and Norman Blake, bassist Dennis Crouch, drummer Jay Bellerose, and multi-instrumentalist Mike Seeger, among others--is nearly as dreamy and subterranean as Daniel Lanois's work with Emmylou Harris (Wrecking Ball). Occasionally, Burnette opts for a fairly straightforward production while still reworking the original song (Plant's own "Please Read the Letter," Mel Tillis's "Stick with Me, Baby"). But much of the new flesh on these old bones is oddly unsettling, if not nightmarish. On the opening track of "Rich Woman," the soft-as-clouds vocals strike an optimistic mood, while the instrumental backing--loose snare, ominous bass line, and insinuating electric guitar lines--create a spooky, sinister undertow. Plant and Krauss trade out the solo and harmony vocals, and while they both venture into new waters here (Krauss as a mainstream blues mama, Plant as a gospel singer and honkytonker), she steals the show in Sam Phillips' new "Sister Rosetta Goes Before Us," where a dramatic violin and tremulous banjo strike a foreboding gypsy tone. When Krauss begins this strange, seductive song in a voice so ethereal that angels will take note, you may stop breathing. That, among other reasons, makes Raising Sand an album to die for. --Alanna Nash
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