"Stick With Me Baby" is gorgeous; as Alfred said upthread Plant sounds great but it's Krause's harmonies that stick with me (baby), as you'd expect from an Everlys song. Evidently it's a Mel Tillis write, though it doesn't appear that he ever recorded it.
― Euler, Sunday, 11 October 2009 13:04 (fourteen years ago) link
just thinking about this record makes me feel good
― a full circle lol (J0hn D.), Sunday, 11 October 2009 14:20 (fourteen years ago) link
his band of joy concert at the bowery ballroom is streaming here...
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2010/09/listen_to_rober.html#more
― Thus Sang Freud, Saturday, 25 September 2010 19:34 (thirteen years ago) link
so good, i was playing this on the turntable and after 'please read the letter' ended my 17 month old clapped and said "yay"
― sug ones (omar little), Sunday, 11 November 2012 19:31 (eleven years ago) link
<3 <3 <3 that is awesome
― Inconceivable (to the entire world) (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Sunday, 11 November 2012 19:47 (eleven years ago) link
truly awesome. Thanks for sharing, omar.
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 11 November 2012 20:51 (eleven years ago) link
Real music in a sea of shit.when people say things like this, it makes other people think "oh, it's music for self-important blowhards"not without reasonwhen a record's as good as this one though it's an extra shame that the "at last! REAL music!" people gotta jump onboard― J0hn D., Monday, March 31, 2008 6:47 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post PermalinkMy sentiments exactly.― Ned Raggett, Monday, March 31, 2008 6:49 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
when people say things like this, it makes other people think "oh, it's music for self-important blowhards"
not without reason
when a record's as good as this one though it's an extra shame that the "at last! REAL music!" people gotta jump onboard
― J0hn D., Monday, March 31, 2008 6:47 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
My sentiments exactly.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, March 31, 2008 6:49 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
oh man. memories of "at last! REAL music!" people championing this years ago have kept me away, but this is fantastic.
― chikungunya manatee (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 22 July 2014 22:48 (ten years ago) link
thank you 80s debut singles thread and spotify for leading me here.
― chikungunya manatee (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 22 July 2014 22:49 (ten years ago) link
the wrecking ball production comparison is otm, but that is a positive for me
― chikungunya manatee (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 22 July 2014 22:58 (ten years ago) link
The thing that's bugged me about Plant's solo singing, this pitchy strain like he can't quite accept he's lost his '70s pipes, is completely gone on this record. I like this relaxed, Roy Orbison voice much better.
― dinnerboat, Wednesday, 23 July 2014 14:31 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, he sounds like *Robert Plant* on 'Gone Gone Gone' only.
― chikungunya manatee (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 23 July 2014 14:41 (ten years ago) link
I eventually overcame my production misgivings about this. It really is a great record. The best thing anyone involved has done this century.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 23 July 2014 15:06 (ten years ago) link
I don't think many here are into him, but something about this album reminds me of David Garza's This Euphoria
― chikungunya manatee (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 23 July 2014 20:07 (ten years ago) link
this album is so good and memorable
― Now I Am Become Dracula (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 24 July 2014 00:46 (ten years ago) link
the even numbered tracks (sad songs) are much better than the odd ones (happy songs)
― nostormo, Thursday, 23 October 2014 11:30 (nine years ago) link
I heard this in the doctor's office today and had to google it, I had no idea about this! I wonder if it led to the eventual collaboration?
Viktor Krauss - "Big Log" cover (feat. his sister Alison on vox) from 2004:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFg1vS7OXdU
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 18 July 2016 17:48 (eight years ago) link
Great find - absolutely exquisite. Thanks for posting.
― Vast Halo, Monday, 18 July 2016 21:26 (eight years ago) link
That's really quite nice.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 18 July 2016 23:42 (eight years ago) link
Been hearing this all morning. Production is excellent and everyone performs perfect. A pt. 2 should be in the works.
― dance cum rituals (Moka), Sunday, 1 January 2017 18:52 (seven years ago) link
I could have sworn they said there were enough tracks left over for a part 2, more or less, but conflicting schedules have made it impossible to finish.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 1 January 2017 19:49 (seven years ago) link
I seem to recall they started a second album, but the sessions didn't gel correctly or something; Krauss exited, Patty Griffin came in, and that album became Band of Joy.
― "I must believe that my charm was not in my ass." (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 1 January 2017 20:01 (seven years ago) link
Would buy a deluxe box thingie of this album
― Wimmels, Sunday, 1 January 2017 22:02 (seven years ago) link
My gosh, "Killing the Blues" is lovely
― j.o.h.n. in evanston (john. a resident of chicago.), Wednesday, 17 June 2020 21:41 (four years ago) link
Steve Rarle said he wrote this for Plant-Krauss follow-up, so when that didn't happen and he needed a track for cobbled album, recorded it w then-wife A.Moorer---pretty good, considering he's Earle, not Plant---wisely sings a little behind her, like Parsons tended to do w Emmylou:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwbkisIQQU4
― dow, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 22:57 (four years ago) link
Think, esp. on headphones, you can easily imagine how it might have sounded if P-Ked.
― dow, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 22:58 (four years ago) link
My brother gifted me a pair of KEF LSX today and I have to say my mind is blown on how good this album sounds. I already knew by listening to it on decent headphones but still. WOW.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 18 October 2020 04:48 (three years ago) link
New song with T Bone producing once again. Sounds great. Hate the album cover though.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 13 August 2021 21:46 (three years ago) link
A Lucinda Williams cover , Can’t Let Go
― calstars, Friday, 13 August 2021 21:52 (three years ago) link
Which was itself a cover. Randy Weeks.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 14 August 2021 15:27 (three years ago) link
Pareles write up has me excited for this
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/04/arts/music/robert-plant-alison-krauss-raise-the-roof.html
“Raise the Roof” almost magically reclaims the spectral tone of “Raising Sand,” then finds ways to expand on it, delving further into both quiet subtleties and wailing intensity. “It’s a little bit more smoky, a little bit more lustrous than the first record,” Plant, 73, said by phone from his home in western England.“It’s definitely different, even though it might be coming out of the same sort of crevasse, the same fork in the landscape of our musical lives. It has a mood to it, which is laced with time and with the actual age and maturity of the songs themselves.”
“It’s definitely different, even though it might be coming out of the same sort of crevasse, the same fork in the landscape of our musical lives. It has a mood to it, which is laced with time and with the actual age and maturity of the songs themselves.”
― Indexed, Friday, 5 November 2021 14:18 (two years ago) link
Cool, good article. Looking forward to it. This stopped me for a second — "Krauss, 50, grew up harmonizing in bluegrass groups ..." — because I still think of Krauss as kind of a kid, which she was when I first started listening to her. But then I remember that was like than 27 years ago ...
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 5 November 2021 22:10 (two years ago) link
So this album's real nice. More of a lesser companion to the first one than any advance on it, but it's a mostly good selection of songs, and it does totally recapture the vibe of the first one.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 20 November 2021 02:21 (two years ago) link
Agreed. The word that stuck with me from that Pareles piece was "smoky." It's got more of a nighttime vibe than Raising Sand. I like the "Can't Let Go" cover!
― Indexed, Tuesday, 23 November 2021 19:12 (two years ago) link
I thought I'd posted on this thread in November!
Anyway, this one's superior to its nice, stolid predecessor. The Ribot-Hidalgo-Burnett guitars are sharper, the songs with some edges, and, wow, Plant and Krauss' harmonies don't let go of each other.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 21 June 2022 21:28 (two years ago) link
I enjoyed listening to them discuss the process of learning to sing together on SongExploder.
― Indexed, Wednesday, 22 June 2022 19:51 (two years ago) link
just cancelled their headlining show at Belgium's Cactus festival, 20 minutes before showtime (!). Alison has the flu.
― StanM, Friday, 8 July 2022 20:40 (two years ago) link