Raising Sand

I am in love with this CD. Robert Plant is amazing in his transformational singing style. Allison is supperb as always. Together they sing close harmony that makes me love them.
They sound like they have been singing together for years. They are fabulous.
Nancy Grinstead

"Raising Sand" is pure magic.

Legendary rock vocalist Robert Plant and blue grass fondant Alison Krauss have recorded an instant classic with "Raising Sand". And who woulda thunk it? Sometimes these sorts of daring pairings simply don't pan out (remember when Johnny Cash and Fiona Apple teamed up on "Bridge Over Troubled Water"?). But in the case of the duets on "Raising Sand", IT WORKS. Whether it's the rockabilly stylings of "Gone Gone Gone (Done Me Wrong)" or "Please Read the Letter" or "Killing the Blues", the honey is flowing and IT IS SWEET.

"Raising Sand" is sexy, folks. This legendary duo have made what I consider to be one of the best albums of all time. I predict it will be highly lauded for generations to come.

Just awful! Seems a lot of people have drunk the Amazon "Editorial Review" Kool-Aid and won't admit the emperor has no clothes. But for Krauss' pretty face on the cover, you would think this is a ponderous compendium of dirges broken only sporadically by a New Orleans jazz funeral band (albeit even then sedate) as in Gone, Gone, Gone. Thank God for Phil and Don. What is also unfathomable is that Amazon "critic" Alanna Nash gives huge kudos to T Bone Burnette for song selection, when that is perhaps the worst part of this production. There might have been some songs that could have worked that wouldn't have involved giving Plant Quaaludes to try to narrow the vocalization chasm between him and Krauss, but not Burnette's inferior choices. The other thing Ms. Nash needs to do is to hose down the hyperbole that only adds to the absurdity of her analysis - "...makes Raising Sand an album to die for." Oh please, rather an album to play at a memorial service.

Hopefully this very disappointing effort sends the message that every clever, "daring" combination of artists does not result in a successful collaboration much less good music; this is NOT Knopfler-Harris, not even close. Buy and download a cut or two, although you could easily ignore the whole dull thing, but don't waste your money on the entire CD like I did. What's next, Steven Tyler and Sarah Brightman sing Celia Cruz classics?

I'm not sure who thought Robert Plant and Alison Krauss would make a good duo, but they should be fired. This compilation of music is very puerile, discordant, and repetitive. You can easily tell that songs were written by or for the different artists and those are the best ones. The actual duos come across as very juvenile in style, often simply repetitive and boring. It's sad because separately these are two fine musicians, together they make less than one.

THIS WAS AN "OK" CD. I WAS SUPRISED BECAUSE I THOUGHT THAT IT WOULD BE A GREAT CD, BUT I WOULD ONLY RATE IT "OK".