BBC2- Robert Plant & Alison Kraus

Subject: BBC2- Robert Plant & Alison Kraus
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 29 Oct 07 - 05:47 AM

I think these two fine chaps are featured on next saturday's 'The Culture show' 7pm - ish on BBC2.
                Check the Radio Times for details. 'Other listing magazines are available'

Subject: RE: BBC2- Robert Plant & Alison Kraus
From: Tweed
Date: 29 Oct 07 - 02:22 PM

Alison ain't no chap, Paco. She is a darned fine looking fiddle playing woman. How these two linked up is way beyond me.
One screams like a pterodactyl and the other sings sweet as a bird.

Subject: RE: BBC2- Robert Plant & Alison Kraus
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 30 Oct 07 - 04:09 AM

What?? You mean Plant ain't a woman???

Subject: RE: BBC2- Robert Plant & Alison Kraus
From: Splott Man
Date: 30 Oct 07 - 04:31 AM

I've heard a bit of the album, and it's pretty damn good.

Subject: RE: BBC2- Robert Plant & Alison Kraus
From: GUEST
Date: 30 Oct 07 - 08:43 AM

I heard 'Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On)' on Terry Wogan's show yesterday and thought it was excellent. I believe it is being released as a single.

Subject: RE: BBC2- Robert Plant & Alison Kraus
From: Gedpipes
Date: 30 Oct 07 - 11:27 AM

these two lasses are well worth a listen.

Subject: RE: BBC2- Robert Plant & Alison Kraus
From: Wesley S
Date: 30 Oct 07 - 11:45 AM

Anything produced by T-Bone Burnett can't be all bad.

Subject: RE: BBC2- Robert Plant & Alison Kraus
From: astro
Date: 30 Oct 07 - 06:30 PM

Have they actually done an album together? I haven't heard. It is a strange match up...!

Astro....

Subject: RE: BBC2- Robert Plant & Alison Kraus
From: bobad
Date: 30 Oct 07 - 06:51 PM

From what I have heard it works quite well, they create a sound that comes off like neither of their prior recordings. It is also receiving rave reviews.

Subject: RE: BBC2- Robert Plant & Alison Kraus
From: astro
Date: 30 Oct 07 - 07:06 PM

Well, Robert Plant has a great rock and blues sound and I think Allison probably could match up with anyone. I'll have to look for this. I like unique and interesting matches.

Astro...dazed and confused as always....

Subject: RE: BBC2- Robert Plant & Alison Kraus
From: BanjoRay
Date: 30 Oct 07 - 08:29 PM

Well it's a strange thing that seems to be happening. Robert plant is teaming up with a bluegrass fiddler. Last Easter I was learning Old Time fiddle alongside John Paul Jones at Sore Fingers, who also turns out to be a really good bluegrass mandolin player.
I blame global warming....
Ray

Subject: RE: BBC2- Robert Plant & Alison Kraus
From: Mooh
Date: 31 Oct 07 - 08:39 AM

It's a wonderful album, their voices are very natural together. It's gonna sell like crazy and will be the rare pop record I actually buy.

Good on 'em.

Peace, Mooh.

Subject: RE: BBC2- Robert Plant & Alison Kraus
From: wysiwyg
Date: 31 Oct 07 - 11:17 AM

Subject: RE: Allison Krauss Graceland
From: WYSIWYG - PM
Date: 29 Oct 07 - 11:40 AM

These sorts of collaborations are not brand-new. CMT-TV (country music, cable) has been running a really good series called "Crossroads" where a country artist and a rock artist who mutually admire one another's work team up, bands and all, for a 1-hour special.

The program includes rehearsal footage and brief interviews where each talks about how the other has influenced them. The several I have seen have been pretty good-- synergies. One of the artists usually has gotten the ball rolling to name and sometimes solicit another genre's artists to participate. In some cases, the way they've done each other's songs has, IMO, surpassed the original.

It's not so crazy-- don't we folkies have at least one "Guilty Pleasures" thread, and have eclectic tastes in our car CDs?

~Susan

Subject: RE: BBC2- Robert Plant & Alison Kraus
From: oggie
Date: 31 Oct 07 - 12:12 PM

It's a good album IMHO. The voices work well together, who takes lead is sometimes counter-intuitive but as a wholw it works. It's been well produced and the band is in good form.

In an era when so many rock bands are doing 30/35 year anniversary tours, not having been a working band for half of those years, (yes I know Zep are playing the O2 Arena) it's good to see one of that generation not stuck in a time warp and doing something new.

All the best

Steve

Subject: RE: BBC2- Robert Plant & Alison Kraus
From: GUEST,Tunesmith
Date: 31 Oct 07 - 05:28 PM

They sound great to me!

Youtube link

Subject: RE: BBC2- Robert Plant & Alison Kraus
From: GUEST,Coyote Breath
Date: 01 Nov 07 - 01:19 AM

Heard them on NPR and (as stated above) they sound great!! Also Plant comes accross as a thoughtful and creative person not the howler monkey I'd always thought him to be. (Though I must admit there were numbers he did in that mode which I secretly enjoyed.)

One thing was a little scary. Ms Krause sang a song (I didn't catch the title, unfortunately) sort of bluesy, and she sounded like Janis Joplin (or maybe her ghost).

CB

Subject: RE: BBC2- Robert Plant & Alison Kraus
From: GLoux
Date: 01 Nov 07 - 09:05 AM

GUEST, Tunesmith...thanks so much for posting that link to the YouTube interview...

-Greg

Subject: RE: BBC2- Robert Plant & Alison Kraus
From: Mick Tems
Date: 01 Nov 07 - 01:41 PM

I understand that Robert Plant is an avid reader of Froots magazine - good for him! Alison is a lovely lady and a fine singer and musician - congratulations to both of them.

Subject: RE: BBC2- Robert Plant & Alison Kraus
From: Singing Referee
Date: 01 Nov 07 - 04:55 PM

I followed the YouTube link, then played a few other videos of collaborations Alison Krauss has done. Found this. Magical!
Molly Ban - Alison Krauss & The Chieftains

Subject: RE: BBC2- Robert Plant & Alison Kraus
From: Gulliver
Date: 01 Nov 07 - 09:38 PM

John Creedon is playing them right now on RTE radio. Halleluia--sounds good ('cept it reminds me of a cremation I was at last week where that song was played).

Don

Subject: RE: BBC2- Robert Plant & Alison Kraus
From: bobad
Date: 09 Feb 09 - 08:28 AM

The Grammy machine recognized quality this this year by awarding 5 Grammys to this collaboration, well deserved IMO.

Perhaps an officer of Mudcat can correct the spelling in the subject header to render it searchable.

Subject: RE: BBC2- Robert Plant & Alison Kraus
From: Hamish
Date: 09 Feb 09 - 10:05 AM

Well, I dunno. I heard their version of Killin' the Blues which is an excellent song and it left me cold. Haven't felt the need to investigate further. I wonder instead how much of a profile comes from their pedigrees rather than the quality of the recording and performances.

--
Hamish sceptically rather than curmudgeonly.

Subject: RE: BBC2- Robert Plant & Alison Kraus
From: bobad
Date: 09 Feb 09 - 10:33 AM

I didn't watch the show and see the performance but I have the CD and like it very much. All a matter of individual taste I guess.

Subject: RE: BBC2- Robert Plant & Alison Kraus
From: Will Fly
Date: 09 Feb 09 - 10:55 AM

I bought the album - some good stuff on it (IMO), but some of it didn't get to me. "Gone, Gone, Gone" is a great track - the best on the album in my view. Still, it's an interesting collaboration.

Subject: RE: BBC2- Robert Plant & Alison Kraus
From: bankley
Date: 09 Feb 09 - 11:39 AM

Having T-Bone Burnett as producer helped a lot... he has a unique rootsy approach... seemed to be the right chemistry all around...

Plant's been experimenting with different music styles for years, and Kraus has been pushing her horizons lately...
good on them

Subject: RE: BBC2- Robert Plant & Alison Kraus
From: voyager
Date: 01 Sep 22 - 12:52 PM

15 years on from this original post .... going to see their concert tonight at Red Rocks (Morrison, CO). Will report on this tomorrow.

Subject: RE: BBC2- Robert Plant & Alison Kraus
From: GUEST
Date: 02 Sep 22 - 03:36 PM

There were 10,000 people at the Alison Krause/Robert Plant concert last night. We've been to this venue a few times over a lifetime with some great concerts (Joni Mitchell/Persuasions - 1983, Arlo Guthrie - 2012).
Sad to say, the show was quite forgettable. Glad these talented musicians are getting a payday (I'm all for that). As for the music .... it all sounded like Middle of the Road Pop Music.


oh well
voyager