Alison Krauss

Robert Plant and Alison Krauss announced new summer tour dates in further support of their latest record, Raise the Roof. The duo is slated to trek across the eastern U.S. prior to their newly announced western leg. Plant and Krauss added a dozen more shows, including performances at Colorado’s Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Greek Theatre in Los Angeles, and Moody Amphitheater in Austin. The second leg will run throughout August and September. The general ticket sale for Plant and Krauss’ western U.S. stint begins at 10 a.m. local on Friday, April 15. Plant and Krauss are set to perform at the Bonnaroo and Glastonbury festivals early this summer, marking some of their first live shows together in over a decade. Raise The Roof was released in November. It is Plant and Krauss’ second reco...

Robert Plant and Alison Krauss announced new summer tour dates in further support of their latest record, Raise the Roof. The duo is slated to trek across the eastern U.S. prior to their newly announced western leg. Plant and Krauss added a dozen more shows, including performances at Colorado’s Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Greek Theatre in Los Angeles, and Moody Amphitheater in Austin. The second leg will run throughout August and September. The general ticket sale for Plant and Krauss’ western U.S. stint begins at 10 a.m. local on Friday, April 15. Plant and Krauss are set to perform at the Bonnaroo and Glastonbury festivals early this summer, marking some of their first live shows together in over a decade. Raise The Roof was released in November. It is Plant and Krauss’ second reco...

Robert Plant and Alison Krauss dropped their latest album Raise the Roof yesterday and celebrated the release with performances on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert and CBS Saturday Morning. The duo delivered a pre-recorded performance from Nashville for Colbert where they played “Can’t Let Go” and, as a web exclusive, “Trouble With My Lover,” backed by a band of guitarists, a stand-up bassist, and a drummer. [embedded content][embedded content] [embedded content][embedded content] Hours after that performance, the pair visited the Country Music Hall of Fame to chat with CBS Saturday Morning about the album (their first in 14 years). “It’s tough, singing what they call harmonies, was always a but a challenge to me. But I cracked it,” Plant confessed, noting t...

To support their brand new record, Raise The Roof, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss are set to embark on a summer tour through the U.S. and Europe. This will be the duo’s first tour in twelve years, beginning June 1 at CMAC in Canandaigua, New York. Tickets for U.S. dates go on sale at 10 a.m. local time Friday, Dec. 3, following a series of pre-sales beginning Monday, Nov. 29. European dates go on sale at 9 a.m. CET on Friday, Nov. 26, with pre-sales beginning Wednesday, Nov. 24. Every sale can be found on the duo’s website. The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and 27-time Grammy-winner’s newest album follows their 2007 Raising Sands. Raise The Roof was recorded at Nashville’s Sound Emporium Studios and was produced by T Bone Burnett. Raise The Roof Track List1. Quattro (Worl...

Robert Plant and Alison Krauss just released a Bert Jansch cover “It Don’t Bother Me.” From the Scottish folk musician and Pentangle founding member, the track is reworked by the duo with deep percussion hits and Krauss’ searing croon. “It Don’t Bother Me” gradually builds in intensity through the interplaying guitars of Marc Ribot and Los Lobos’ David Hidalgo. “I’ve been a big follower of Bert Jansch’s work since I was a teenager, and of that whole Irish, Scottish, English folk style that has a different lilt and different lyrical perspective,” Plant said in a statement. “I was very keen to bring some of that into the picture.” The cover is the latest song to emerge from Plant and Krauss’ upcoming Raise The Roof, which is set to arrive November 19 via Rounder Records. It marks the duo’s r...

Robert Plant and Alison Krauss have collaborated again for their first album in 14 years. Today, the duo released “High and Lonesome” off Raise The Roof, which is set to arrive November 19 via Rounder Records. “High and Lonesome” is the lone original from the record, written by Plant and T Bone Burnett and backed by an all-star lineup (drummer Jay Bellerose, bassist Dennis Crouch, guitarist Marc Ribot, pedal steel player Russell Pahl, Viktor Krauss on mellotron, Jeff Taylor on bass accordion, and Burnett on electric guitar and mellotron). The track follows the release of the lead rendition-single “Can’t Let Go,” of Randy Weeks and Lucinda Williams’ classic. The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Plant alongside the 27-time Grammy-winner Krauss recorded Raise The Roof at Nashville’s Sound Emporium...