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Robert Plant and Alison Krauss
Raising Sand
Out October 23rd

When Robert Plant duetted with blue grass singer and fiddle player Alison Krauss at a 2004 Lead Belly tribute, he was blown away by their chemistry. "Her voice has a fragility that intrigued me," he says. Their new disc of duets, recorded by T Bone Burnett in Nashville and L.A., ranges from Tom Waits' "Trampled Rose" to the Jimmy Page/Plant tune "Please Read the Letter." Krauss and Plant harmonize throughout, which was a challenge for the Led Zep howler. "I didn't know whether to burst into 'Immigrant Song' or 'The Ocean,' " he says. But Krauss helped Plant discover how to adjust his voice to the material -- and he helped Krauss on the bluesier numbers: "She'd go, 'Robert, I'm too white to sing "Rich Woman." ' I said, 'Honey, it's just coming out.' And out it came."

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"Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On)" from Raising Sand

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