Robert Plant and Alison Krauss have announced a new album together. Raise the Roof is the follow-up to their Grammy-winning LP Raising Sand. The new record comes on November 19th via Rounder. Plant and Krauss shared the lead single “Can’t Let Go” today – a track written by Randy Weeks and made famous by Lucinda Williams on Car Wheels on a Gravel Road. Check it out below and scroll down to find the LP art and tracklist.
“We wanted it to move,” said Krauss in a press release on the new album. “We brought other people with us, other personalities into the band, and seeing them again in the studio brought a new intimacy to the harmonies.”
Plant added, “You hear something and you say, ‘Man, listen to this song, we have to sing this song!’ It really is a vacation – the perfect place that you least expected. ”The customer review has been automatically translated from German.
Raise the Roof is produced by T Bone Burnett, who also worked with Plant and Krauss on Raising Sand. The new album features guitarists Marc Ribot, David Hidalgo, Bill Frisell and Buddy Miller, drummer Jay Bellerose, bassists Dennis Crouch and Viktor Krauss and pedal steel guitarist Russ Pahl.
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Robert Plant & Alison Krauss: Raise the Roof
Raise the roof:
01 Quattro (world drifts in)
02 The price of love
03 Go your way
04 Trouble with my lover
05 Looking for my love
06 Can’t let go
07 I don’t mind
08 You led me wrong
09 Last Kind Words Blues
10 Tall and lonely
11 Where the lonely go
12 Somebody was watching out for me
