Robert Plant & Alison Krauss make an eclectic set of folk, country and R&B songs effortlessly their own on 'Raise the Roof,' their first album together since 2007. Read erdanton's review:
, Plant and Krauss spent a fair amount of time swapping song suggestions while continuing their respective solo careers and waiting for their schedules to align for long enough to record some of them. As a result of their crate digging,reflects a wide range of music as they corral American folk, country and R&B songs, along with a few British folk selections that Plant knew from way back.
With vocal parts that merge and intertwine as if Plant and Krauss are each half of the same soul, the singers fully inhabit these songs. They make even the more familiar numbers indelibly their own, though sometimes it takes a minute to realize it.
Not every track is so instantly recognizable. Plant takes the lead on “Go Your Way,” by the British folk singers Anne Briggs and Bert Jansch, singing a quiet, crestfallen melody that builds on Briggs’ more desolate vocals on her 1971 recording of the song. While Briggs accompanied herself on acoustic guitar, Plant, Krauss and producer Burnett flesh out their arrangement with electric guitars and drums that are true to the spirit of the original without sounding much like it.
would be eclectic, if it weren’t for the way Plant and Krauss come together as if they’d been doing this non-stop for the past decade and a half. Perhaps the most appealing part of the album is that regardless of what sound, style or location these songs came from—British folk, New Orleans soul, Bakersfield country—they sound cohesive and of a piece in the hands of Plant and Krauss. In other words, the singers make these songs sound like their own.
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