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Robert Plant and Alison Krauss Detail New U.S. Summer Tour Dates
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 Detail New U.S. Summer Tour Dates
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 Bring Raise the Roof Songs to Colbert and CBS Saturday Morning
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...
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss Announce First Tour in 12 Years
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 Cover Bert Jansch’s ‘It Don’t Bother Me’
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 Share ‘High And Lonesome’ Off Forthcoming Album
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...
The 100 Greatest Rock Stars Since That Was A Thing
Three of the 100 are in this picture! The Rolling Stones, in 1964, from left to right: Bill Wyman, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Brian Jones. The problem with lists like this is they are invariably bullshit. So our prime objective was to make sure we didn’t do a bullshit list. I’m not saying we did a scientific one either. Because that isn’t possible — actually, it is, if you wanted some compilation of who sold the most records/concert tickets/has the most fans/got the most death threats, etc., and someone could come up with a bunch of very empirical metrics and create a “heat index” or something, and could deliver an actual scientific ranking! But we, um, didn’t do that. In fact we didn’t even, technically, do the “we...
The 50 Best Live Albums of the 1970s
The concert industry exploded in the 1970s, and the live album, a stopgap project once reserved for only the biggest artists, became a compulsory ritual and a pivotal moment for many artists. Live albums captured legendarily loud bands like The Who and The Ramones in their natural element. Once obscure regional acts like Bob Seger, KISS and Cheap Trick exploded into the mainstream with live albums. The Band, The Stooges, and Velvet Underground put their final gigs on vinyl. Jimi Hendrix, Neil Young (as his ongoing archive series shows), and Jackson Browne recorded entire sets of new songs onstage. The Grateful Dead released several official live albums (and continue to do so) that only made fans want to bootleg shows on their own more. With the 50th anniversary of a landmark live album, Th...
Robert Plant’s Absolute, Invaluable Journey
I’ve met Robert Plant four times. First as a punky grade-schooler, sitting cross-legged on my friend’s worn-out shag carpet, carefully slipping LPs out of their dust jackets for fear her older sister will wring our necks for touching her records. Houses of the Holy, Led Zeppelin IV, I, II. Aside from not leaving fingerprints on the pristine black vinyl, there were other rules, too. The music was best played as loud as possible, the lyrics must be memorized and analyzed—“a hedgerow is a row of shrubs…” — and, when we got old enough to have boyfriends, this would be the music we would totally make out to. Not a few years later as a preadolescent, I met Robert Plant again. This time, thanks to MTV. There was no way to make a cognitive connection between this man and the one who screeched abou...
Led Zeppelin’s Celebration Day to Stream This Weekend
Continuing their ongoing series of broadcasting classic shows from the past, YouTube will host a broadcast of Led Zeppelin’s Celebration Day. The show, at least for now, was the last time that Robert Plant, Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones (with Jason Bonham filling in for his late father on drums) performed together under the Led Zeppelin name. The concert took place on Dec. 10, 2007 at London’s O2 Arena as a tribute to Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegun. It was Zeppelin’s first headlining show in 27 years and the film was released in 2012. The two-plus hour show saw the band stampede through their biggest hits. Celebration Day will air beginning this Saturday, May 30, beginning at 3 pm EST/12 pm PST. It will air, like the previous concert films, for just three days. Chec...
