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The Led Zeppelin vocalist Robert Plant will be on the road again in 2024 with Alison Krauss, with whom he already recorded two studio albums: “Raising Sand” (2007) and “Raise The Roof” (2021). Called “Can’t Let Go Tour”, the duo will perform across the United States and Canada next June, August and September.

It is expected that setlists will be similar to the ones from previous tours, covering the material that they wrote together, solo songs from both artists and covers, including Led Zeppelin . JD McPherson will be the opening act on selected dates.

• 2 – Tulsa, OK – Cain’s Ballroom
• 4 – Camdenton, MO – Ozarks Amphitheater (JD McPherson as opening act)
• 5 – Lincoln, NE – Pinewood Bowl Theater (JD McPherson as opening act)
• 7 – Prior Lake, MN – Mystic Lake Amphitheater (JD McPherson as opening act)
• 8 – Madison, WI – Breese Stevens Field (JD McPherson as opening act)
• 11 – Des Moines, IA – Lauridsen Amphitheater at Waterworks Park*
• 12 – Highland Park, IL – Ravinia Festival (JD McPherson as opening act)
• 14 – Toledo, OH – Toledo Zoo & Aquarium – Amphitheater (JD McPherson as opening act)
• 15 – Burgettstown, PA – The Pavilion at Star Lake (JD McPherson as opening act)
• 18 – Vienna, VA – Wolf Trap (JD McPherson as opening act)
• 19 – Vienna, VA – Wolf Trap (JD McPherson as opening act)
• 8 – Missoula, MT – KettleHouse Amphitheater (JD McPherson as opening act)
• 9 – Missoula, MT – KettleHouse Amphitheater (JD McPherson as opening act)
• 11 – Edmonton, AB – Edmonton Folk Music Festival
• 13 – Vancouver, BC – Queen Elizabeth Theatre (JD McPherson as opening act)
• 14 – Vancouver, BC – Queen Elizabeth Theatre (JD McPherson as opening act)
• 16 – Seattle, WA – Venue to be announced (JD McPherson as opening act)
• 17 – Seattle, WA – Venue to be announced (JD McPherson as opening act)
• 19 – Eugene, OR – The Cuthbert Amphitheater (JD McPherson as opening act)
• 21 – Murphy’s, CA – Ironstone Amphitheatre (JD McPherson as opening act)
• 22 – Stanford, CA – Frost Amphitheater (JD McPherson as opening act)
• 24 – Paso Robles, CA – Vina Robles Amphitheatre (JD McPherson as opening act)
• 25 – Highland, CA – Yaamava’ Theater (JD McPherson as opening act)
• 26 – Flagstaff, AZ – Pepsi Amphitheater (JD McPherson as opening act)
• 28 – Santa Fe, NM – The Santa Fe Opera (JD McPherson as opening act)
• 29 – Santa Fe, NM – The Santa Fe Opera (JD McPherson as opening act)
• 31 – Colorado Springs, CO – Sunset Amphitheater (JD McPherson as opening act)
• 1 – Vail, CO – Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater (JD McPherson as opening act)

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Hear Robert Plant, Alison Krauss and T Bone Burnett in harmony on standout track “High and Lonesome”, backed by all-star lineup of drummer Jay Bellerose, bassist Dennis Crouch, guitarist Marc Ribot and pedal steel player Russell Pahl, plus Viktor Krauss on mellotron, Jeff Taylor on bass accordion, and T Bone Burnett on electric guitar, mellotron and additional vocals. “High and Lonesome” is the second preview of Raise The Roof, following lead single “Can’t Let Go”, a rendition of the Randy Weeks/Lucinda Williams classic.

The rest of Raise The Roof includes deep cuts by Merle Haggard, Allen Toussaint, The Everly Brothers, Anne Briggs, Geeshie Wiley, Bert Jansch, Calexico and more.

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Robert Plant and Alison Krauss Announce North American Tour Dates

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Robert Plant and Alison Krauss have announced a spring and summer tour of North America. The concerts begin in June and stretch into September. See the duo’s tour dates below.

JD McPherson will open for Plant and Krauss. He’ll also join the musicians’ band to play lead guitar alongside drummer Jay Bellerose, bassist Dennis Crouch, string player Stuart Duncan, and keyboardist and guitarist Viktor Krauss.

In 2021, Plant and Krauss released their second collaborative album, Raise the Roof . The artists first connected in 2007 for Raising Sand . Both albums were produced by T Bone Burnett.

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06-02 Tulsa, OK - Cain’s Ballroom 06-04 Camdenton, MO - Ozarks Amphitheater * 06-05 Lincoln, NE - Pinewood Bowl Theater * 06-07 Prior Lake, MN - Mystic Lake Amphitheater * 06-08 Madison, WI - Breese Stevens Field * 06-11 Des Moines, IA - Lauridsen Amphitheater at Waterworks Park * 06-12 Highland Park, IL - Ravinia Festival * 06-14 Toledo, OH - Toledo Zoo & Aquarium - Amphitheater * 06-15 Burgettstown, PA - The Pavilion at Star Lake * 06-18 Vienna, VA - Wolf Trap * 06-19 Vienna, VA - Wolf Trap * 08-08 Missoula, MT - KettleHouse Amphitheater * 08-09 Missoula, MT - KettleHouse Amphitheater * 08-11 Edmonton, Alberta - Edmonton Folk Music Festival 08-13 Vancouver, British Columbia - Queen Elizabeth Theatre * 08-14 Vancouver, British Columbia - Queen Elizabeth Theatre * 08-16 Seattle, WA - Venue TBD * 08-17 Seattle, WA - Venue TBD * 08-19 Eugene, OR - The Cuthbert Amphitheater * 08-21 Murphys, CA - Ironstone Amphitheatre * 08-22 Stanford, CA - Frost Amphitheater * 08-24 Paso Robles, CA - Vina Robles Amphitheatre * 08-25 Highland, CA - Yaamava’ Theater * 08-26 Flagstaff, AZ - Pepsi Amphitheater * 08-28 Santa Fe, NM - The Santa Fe Opera * 08-29 Santa Fe, NM - The Santa Fe Opera * 08-31 Colorado Springs, CO - Sunset Amphitheater * 09-01 Vail, CO - Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater *

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Robert Plant & Alison Krauss to Launch First Tour In 12 Years

Plant and Krauss released their new album 'Raise The Roof' on Friday (Nov. 19).

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Robert Plant and Alison Krauss will reunite on tour in 2022, marking the first time the two entertainers have toured together in over a decade. Beginning June 1, 2022, they will embark on an 18-show run of bandshell venues, launching in Canandaigua, New York, and including stops at New York City’s Forest Hills Stadium, among other venues.

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The tour, their first in 12 years, supports their new album Raise The Roof , which released Friday (Nov. 19) and is the follow-up to 2007’s Raising Sand , which earned the pair five Grammy honors, including album of the year and record of the year. Raise The Roof found Plant and Krauss returning to one of the studios they used for Raising Sand , Nashville’s Sound Emporium studios. As with Raising Sand , the project was produced by T Bone Burnett. The new project is an eclectic collection of blues numbers, country, soul and folk-rock songs originally written and/or recorded by artists including Merle Haggard, The Everly Brothers, Brenda Burns, Bert Jansch, Anne Briggs and more.

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Tickets for U.S. dates go on sale at 10 a.m. local time Friday, Dec. 3, following a series of presales that begin Monday, Nov. 29. European dates go on sale Friday, Nov. 26, with presales beginning Wednesday, Nov. 24.

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June 1: Canandaigua, NY – CMAC June 3: Saratoga Springs, NY – Saratoga Performing Arts Center June 4: Forest Hills, NY – Forest Hills Stadium June 6: Clarkston, MI – DTE Energy Music Theatre June 7: Chicago, IL – Jay Pritzker Pavilion June 9: Indianapolis, IN – TCU Amphitheater at White River State Park June 11: Columbia, MD – Merriweather Post Pavilion June 12: Philadelphia, PA – TD Pavilion @ The Mann June 14: Cary, NC – Koka Booth Amphitheatre* June 16: Atlanta, GA – Cadence Bank Amphitheatre at Chastain Park* June 26: London, UK – BST Hyde Park July 1: Hamar, NO – Tjuvholmen Arena July 2: Bergen, NO – Bergenhus Fortress July 5: Rättvik, SE – Dalhalla July 14: Lucca, IT – Lucca Summer Festival – Piazza Napoleone July 16: Stuttgart, DE – JazzOpen Stuttgart 2022 July 18: Sopot, PL – Opera Lesna July 20: Berlin, DE – Zitadelle

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ROBERT PLANT And ALISON KRAUSS Announce First Tour In 12 Years

Today, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss invite the world to "Raise The Roof" . The long-awaited successor to their monumental 2007 album "Raising Sand" is out now, and to celebrate the occasion the duo have announced their first tour in twelve years. Beginning on June 1, 2022, the Rock And Roll Hall Of Famer and 27-time Grammy winner will bring their brand new music to an international run of bandshell shows, including New York City's Forest Hills Stadium.

Tickets for U.S. dates go on sale at 10 a.m. local time Friday, December 3, following a series of presales starting Monday, November 29. European dates go on sale at 9 a.m. CET on Friday, November 26, with presales beginning Wednesday, November 24.

The release of "Raise The Roof" has been accompanied by a host of major appearances and performances from Plant and Krauss . Earlier today they gave their first U.S. TV interview tied to the album on "CBS Mornings" . Tonight, they will perform on "The Late Show With Stephen Colbert" , and tomorrow on "CBS Saturday Morning" . In the meantime, this afternoon, fans can see the two icons play a few of the new songs at 12 p.m. CST / 1 p.m. EST on a global livestream presented in partnership with YouTube , in addition to a virtual conversation with critic Ann Powers at 1 p.m. CST / 2 p.m. EST, during NPR Music 's Listening Party event.

In the weeks leading up to "Raise The Roof" , the album has been celebrated with a New York Times Sunday Arts & Leisure profile, a multi-page spread in Vanity Fair , as well as features in Variety , Entertainment Weekly , People , Associated Press and far beyond. Says The New York Times : " 'Raise The Roof' almost magically reclaims the spectral tone of 'Raising Sand' , then finds ways to expand on it, delving further into both quiet subtleties and wailing intensity."

Recorded at Nashville's Sound Emporium Studios , sessions for "Raise The Roof" began in late 2019 and wrapped just weeks before the world went into lockdown. Like "Raising Sand" , T Bone Burnett produced the collection, which delivers a cosmic collision of early blues, country deep cuts, revolutionary folk-rock and lost soul music written by legends and unsung heroes like Merle Haggard , Allen Toussaint , THE EVERLY BROTHERS , Anne Briggs , Geeshie Wiley , Bert Jansch , Ola Belle Reed , Brenda Burns and more.

Robert Plant and Alison Krauss 2022 tour dates:

June 01 - Canandaigua, NY @ CMAC June 02 - Saratoga Springs, NY @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center June 04 - Forest Hills, NY @ Forest Hills Stadium June 06 - Clarkston, MI @ DTE Energy Music Theatre June 07 - Chicago, IL @ Jay Pritzker Pavilion June 09 - Indianapolis, IN @ TCU Amphitheater at White River State Park June 11 - Columbia, MD @ Merriweather Post Pavilion June 12 - Philadelphia, PA @ TD Pavilion @ The Mann June 14 - Cary, NC @ Koka Booth Amphitheatre June 16 - Atlanta, GA @ Cadence Bank Amphitheatre at Chastain Park June 26 - London, UK @ BST Hyde Park July 01 - Hamar, NO @ Tjuvholmen Arena July 02 - Bergen, NO @ Bergenhus Fortress July 05 - Rättvik, SE @ Dalhalla July 14 - Lucca, IT @ Lucca Summer Festival - Piazza Napoleone July 16 - Stuttgart, DE @ JazzOpen Stuttgart 2022 July 18 - Sopot, PL @ Opera Lesna July 20 - Berlin, DE @ Zitadelle

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Robert Plant, Alison Krauss Add More Shows to First U.S. Tour in 12 Years

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UPDATE (4/11): Robert Plant and Alison Krauss have added a second North American leg to their 2022 world tour . The new dates will launch Aug. 15 at the Rady Shell in Jacobs Park in San Diego, California, and wrap Sept. 4 at the Moody Amphitheater in Austin, Texas. The trek will also include stops at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles and the famed Red Rocks Amphitheater outside Denver (a full itinerary is below with new dates in bold). Tickets for the new dates will go on sale this Friday, April 15, though a pre-sale will begin tomorrow, April 12, at 10 a.m. ET. Full information is available on the tour’s website .

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Robert Plant and Alison Krauss will return to the road together for the first time in 12 years next June.

The duo will kick off a 10-date U.S. tour June 1, 2022 at CMAC in Canandaigua, New York, and the trek will wrap June 16 at the Cadence Bank Amphitheatre at Chastain Park in Atlanta. Plant and Krauss will then head to the U.K. and Europe for a string of dates at the end of June and into July.

Tickets for the U.S. shows will go on sale Dec. 3 at 10 a.m. local time (save for the final show in Atlanta, which go on sale at 9 a.m. ET). A series of presales will begin, however, on Nov. 29. Full information is available on Plant and Krauss’ website .

The tour announcement coincides with the release of Plant and Krauss’ new album, Raise the Roof , out Friday, Nov. 19. The album arrives 13 years after their surprise 2007 hit, Raising Sand , which went on to win five Grammys, including Album of the Year. Raise the Roof was produced by T-Bone Burnett (who also worked on Raising Sand ), and it primarily finds Plant and Krauss covering songs by artists like Merle Haggard, Allen Toussaint, the Everly Brothers and Bert Jansch , though it does feature one original, “High and Lonesome.”

Robert Plant and Alison Krauss Tour Dates

June 1 – Canandaigua, NY @ CMAC June 3 – Saratoga Springs, NY @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center June 4 – Forest Hills, NY @ Forest Hills Stadium June 6 – Clarkston, MI @ DTE Energy Music Theatre June 7 – Chicago, IL @ Jay Pritzker Pavilion June 9 – Indianapolis, IN @ TCU Amphitheater at White River State Park June 11 – Columbia, MD @ Merriweather Post Pavilion June 12 – Philadelphia, PA @ TD Pavilion @ The Mann June 14 – Cary, NC @ Koka Booth Amphitheatre* June 16 – Atlanta, GA @ Cadence Bank Amphitheatre at Chastain Park August 15 – San Diego, CA @ The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park August 17 – Santa Barbara, CA @ Santa Barbara Bowl August 18 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Greek Theatre August 20 – Stateline, NV @ Lake Tahoe Outdoor Arena at Harveys August 21 – Berkeley, CA @ Greek Theatre at UC Berkeley August 23 – Napa, CA @ Oxbow RiverStage August 25 – Bend, OR @ Hayden Homes Amphitheater August 27 – Troutdale, OR @ Edgefield Amphitheater August 28 – Redmond, WA @ Marymoor Park August 30 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Sandy Amp September 1 – Morrison, CO @ Red Rocks Amphitheatre September 3 – Grand Prairie, TX @ Texas Trust CU Theatre at Grand Prairie September 4 – Austin, TX @ Moody Amphitheater

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Robert Plant & Alison Krauss Announce 2023 Tour

Robert Plant and Alison Krauss (Photo: David McClister; used with permission)

Robert Plant and Alison Krauss have announced several dozen 2023 tour dates for the U.S. and Canada. The pair continue to support their 2021 collaborative album, Raise the Roof . Tickets for the new shows go on sale here on Feb. 3, following several presale events. See the complete itinerary below.

Having won six Grammy awards—including Album and Record of the Year—for their 2007 collaboration, Raising Sand , Plant and Krauss’ followup album was released on Rounder Records and has since been nominated for three Grammy Awards including Best Americana album.

The album features 12 new recordings of songs originally recorded by Merle Haggard, Allen Toussaint, the Everly Brothers, Anne Briggs, Geeshie Wiley, Bert Jansch and others.

Like its predecessor, which generated platinum sales, Raise the Roof was produced by T Bone Burnett, who worked with former Led Zeppelin frontman Plant and popular Americana vocalist Krauss, accompanied by drummer Jay Bellerose, guitarists Marc Ribot, David Hidalgo, Bill Frisell and Buddy Miller, bassists Dennis Crouch and Viktor Krauss, along with pedal steel guitarist Russ Pahl, among others.

Watch the video for “Searching For My Love” from the album

Plant told Apple Music 1’s Zane Lowe about the decision to record mostly covers.

“It gives us the opportunity to put our own personality into somebody else’s work,” he says, “which in places it’s quite profound and coming from another time when songwriting and people’s stories and statements and concerns were from a totally different time with a different onus. And I think that gives us a opportunity not to crush the original idea, but to just take it into another place, which is our goal. And it’s been remarkable really. We did exchange music for such a long time but then scuttled on to the next project. And then, slowly but surely, we have this thing where we can explore the less trodden pathways, I think of these songs.”

Krauss adds, “I’m not a songwriter. So my whole life is searching out songs and songwriters and interpreting another person’s story. So getting to hear more wonderful people and tell their story from something of a whole other world to me is really magical.”

Watch their interview with Apple Music 1 here .

Other highlights include a Plant-Burnett original, “High and Lonesome,” and the classic “Can’t Let Go,” written by Randy Weeks and first recorded by Lucinda Williams.

Listen to “High and Lonesome”

The first release, “Can’t Let Go,” spent 10 weeks at #1 on the Americana radio charts.

Watch the lyric video for “Can’t Let Go”

Adds Plant, “You hear something and you go, ‘Man, listen to that song, we got to sing that song!’ It’s a vacation, really—the perfect place to go that you least expected to find.”

Listen to their cover of Merle Haggard’s “Going Where the Lonely Go”

Related: Read radio great Dennis Elsas’ interview with Plant

On Nov. 19, the pair presented a global livestream. Backed by an all-star band in Nashville’s Sound Emporium Studios, they debuted a selection of songs from Raise the Roof exclusively for audiences on YouTube.

Watch them perform a Led Zeppelin favorite in June 2022

In addition to winning all six Grammy Awards for which it was nominated, 2007’s  Raising Sand also earned a CMA Award for Musical Event of the Year, plus Album of the Year and Duo/Group of the Year accolades from the Americana Music Honors and Awards.

Robert Plant and Alison Krauss 2023 Tour (Tickets are available here  and on  StubHub )

Apr 25 – Shreveport, LA – Shreveport Municipal Auditorium Apr 26 – The Woodlands, TX – Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion Apr 28 – New Orleans, LA – New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival Apr 29 – Pelham, AL – Oak Mountain Amphitheatre Apr 30 – Huntsville, AL – The Orion Amphitheater May 02 – Louisville, KY – Louisville, Palace Theatre May 03 – Huber Heights, OH – Rose Music Center at The Heights May 05 – Kansas City, MO – Starlight Theatre May 07 – Memphis, TN – Beale Street Music Festival May 09 – Asheville, NC – ExploreAsheville.com Arena May 10 – Wilmington, NC – Live Oak Bank Pavilion May 11 – Live Oak, FL – Echoland Music Festival May 12 – St. Augustine, FL – St. Augustine Amphitheatre May 13 – Chattanooga, TN – Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Auditorium May 15 – Charlotte, NC – Charlotte Metro Credit Union Amphitheatre May 17 – Portsmouth, VA – Atlantic Union Bank Pavilion May 18 – Charlottesville, VA – Ting Pavilion Jun 14 – Las Vegas, NV – The Peart Concert Theater Jun 15 – Tucson, AZ – Centennial Hall at Univ. of Arizona Jun 17 – Taos, NM – Kit Carson Park Jun 18 – Telluride, CO – Telluride Bluegrass Festival Jun 20 – Bonner, MT – KettleHouse Amphitheater Jun 23 – Somerset, WI – Outlaw Music Festival Jun 24 – East Troy, WI – Outlaw Music Festival Jun 25 – St. Louis, MO – Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre Jun 28 – Cuyahoga Falls, OH – Blossom Music Center Jun 29 – Vienna, VA – Wolf Trap Jul 01 – Bethel, NY – Bethel Woods Center For the Arts Jul 02 – Lenox, MA – Tanglewood Jul 03 – Portland, ME – Thompson’s Point Jul 05 – Toronto, ON – Budweiser Stage Jul 07 – Montreal, QC – Montreal Jazz Festival

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If this new song is an indication of the the rest of the lp, it’s a winner. There needs to be a live LP from the first tour.

I love Alison Krauss and have seen her live twice, but I really don’t care for her and Robert Plant singing together. His voice was great when in Zepplin, but IMO the two together, not a fit. Also the music sounds like it is a computer. I think a reason they have been popular together is because all the Zepplin fans want to hear something from Plant and Krauss would sound good singing a cookbook. Just my opinion.

The music sounds like a computer? Ignorant comment.

I agree . Monotonous is the word I think. The Zep T shirts get in line to be rewarded with an Art lesson rather than entertainment. Then again, I suppose that suffering is a type of delight to some.

I agree with you about Krauss. Her voice is angelic. Plant, on the other hand, never did it for me. Ever. Like Neil Young, I find his voice grating and shrill. I don’t care for his singing, and so I’ll just step away from the Plant/Krauss pairing. Good luck to them, but I’m not buying their music.

Harsh Critique… I Enjoy the Earlier Musical Talents of each Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, and the Pairing of Plant and Krauss as a Duet Team. I Greatly Enjoy their Vocal Blending in Performing Songs of the Past.. The Music Awards for their last (2) Albums Speak to their Fan Base and Musical Success…

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Robert Plant, Alison Krauss Reunite for Summer 2024 North American Tour

by Tina Benitez-Eves February 13, 2024, 11:00 am

Robert Plant and Alison Krauss have reunited for a North American tour during the summer of 2024. The Can’t Let Go Tour kicks off on June 2 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and will stretch across the U.S. and Canada before wrapping up on September 1 in Vail, Colorado. The tour features performances at amphitheaters, pavilions, opera houses, and other historic venues. Supporting Plant and Krauss will be JD McPherson, along with bassist Dennis Crouch, drummer Jay Bellerose, string player Stuart Duncan, and Viktor Krauss on keys and guitar.  Following a series of pre-sales beginning February 14, tickets for the Can’t Let Go Tour will go on sale on February 16.

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“We’ve been doing this on and off since 2007,” said Krauss , “and it’s just gotten better every time we’ve gotten together.”  This marks the first time the duo has performed together since releasing their second collaborative album, Raise The Roof in 2021. The album debuted in the Top 10 on the Billboard 200 at No. 7 and spent 20 weeks at No. 1 on the Americana chart.

Plant and Krauss released their debut album Raising Sand in 2007, which went to No. 1 on the Billboard Rock chart and No. 2 on the Country and 200 charts. Raising Sand also earned the duo a Grammy for Album of the Year in 2009 as well as the same award at the Americana Music Honors & Awards a year earlier. “We have had such a great time making those records and touring that I’d love to see it happen again, too,” shared Krauss. “I feel like we’ve made something new when we recorded together. The whole thing has been a surprise for me. And I know it was for Robert too, although he seems to have more bravery in this department.” In January 2024, Plant also announced a U.K. headlining tour with his band Saving Grace, featuring Suzi Dian, with dates running in March and July of 2024. Before Raise the Roof , Plant released his 11th solo album Carry Fire . That year, Krauss also released her fourth solo album Windy City .

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Since releasing Raise the Roof, Krauss said she’s been in the studio recording, while Plant is revisiting some music he’s had archived away. “I’ve also been going through all that stuff that I never released and never quite got finished, and getting excited about it, going, ‘Wow. What am I going to do with that?” said Plant. “It’s the idioms, the visitation, the places that I’ve been musically which were not complete are just mind-boggling, and they’re a little bit overwhelming.” Plant added, “Doing gigs is doing gigs, but actually making magic in the room is the only way you get to a gig,” said Plant. “Once you’ve got it, you can’t really blow it out of the water unless you have a real difference in personality. We don’t have that because we laugh at each other, but underneath it all there’s a lot of love and a strong affinity. It’s good. It’s really good.”

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Robert Plant and Alison Krauss invite the world to Raise The Roof . The long-awaited successor to their monumental 2007 album, Raising Sand, is out now, and to celebrate the occasion the duo announced their first tour in twelve years. Beginning on June 1, 2022, the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and 27x Grammy-winner will bring their brand-new music to an international run of bandshell shows, including Pine Knob Music Theatre on Monday, June 6, 2022 at 8 p.m. Pine Knob Music Theatre is presented by Proud Partners United Wholesale Mortgage, Trinity Health and Ally.

In the weeks leading up to Raise The Roof, the album has been celebrated with a New York Times Sunday Arts & Leisure profile, a multi-page spread in Vanity Fair, as well as features in Variety, Entertainment Weekly, People, Associated Press and far beyond. Says the New York Times, “Raise The Roof almost magically reclaims the spectral tone of Raising Sand, then finds ways to expand on it, delving further into both quiet subtleties and wailing intensity.”

Recorded at Nashville’s Sound Emporium Studios, sessions for Raise The Roof began in late 2019 and wrapped just weeks before the world went into lockdown. Like Raising Sand, T Bone Burnett produced the collection, which delivers a cosmic collision of early blues, country deep cuts, revolutionary folk-rock and lost soul music written by legends and unsung heroes like Merle Haggard, Allen Toussaint, The Everly Brothers, Anne Briggs, Geeshie Wiley, Bert Jansch, Ola Belle Reed, Brenda Burns and more.

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Robert Plant and Alison Krauss announce first tour in over a decade

The collaborators are gearing up to tour the US and Europe next year in support of their new album, 'Raise The Roof'

Led Zeppelin ‘s Robert Plant and singer-songwriter Alison Krauss have announced a 2022 US and European tour, marking their first time hitting the road together in 12 years.

It comes after the pair released their new album ‘Raise The Roof’ yesterday (November 19), marking 14 years since the release of their first collaborative release, ‘Raising Sand’.

‘Raise The Roof’ features 12 new recordings of songs by the likes of Merle Haggard, Allen Toussaint, The Everly Brothers, Anne Briggs, Geeshie Wiley, Bert Jansch and more. The record also includes ‘High and Lonesome’, an original song written by Plant and Burnett.

“We wanted it to move,” Krauss said in a statement about their new album. “We brought other people in, other personalities within the band, and coming back together again in the studio brought a new intimacy to the harmonies.”

The album was produced by T Bone Burnett and features contributions from drummer Jay Bellerose, guitarists Marc Ribot, David Hidalgo, Bill Frisell and Buddy Miller, bassists Dennis Crouch and Viktor Krauss, pedal steel guitarist Russ Pahl and more.

The accompanying tour will kick off on June 1, 2022, at CMAC in Canandaigua, New York, and will include a performance at London’s BST Hyde Park festival on June 26.

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Tickets for US dates go on sale at 10am local time on December 3, following a series of pre-sales beginning November 29. European dates go on sale at 9am CET on November 26, with pre-sales beginning November 24.

See the tour dates below. All tickets can be found on the duo’s official website .

1 – Canandaigua, NY – CMAC 3 – Saratoga Springs, NY – Saratoga Performing Arts Center 4 – Forest Hills, NY – Forest Hills Stadium 6 – Clarkston, MI – DTE Energy Music Theatre 7 – Chicago, IL – Jay Pritzker Pavilion 9 – Indianapolis, IN – TCU Amphitheater at White River State Park 11 – Columbia, MD – Merriweather Post Pavilion 12 – Philadelphia, PA – TD Pavilion @ The Mann 14 – Cary, NC – Koka Booth Amphitheatre 16 – Atlanta, GA – Cadence Bank Amphitheatre at Chastain Park 26 – London, UK – BST Hyde Park

1 – Hamar, NO – Tjuvholmen Arena 2 – Bergen, NO – Bergenhus Fortress 5 – Rättvik, SE – Dalhalla 14 – Lucca, IT – Lucca Summer Festival – Piazza Napoleone 16 – Stuttgart, DE – JazzOpen Stuttgart 2022 18 – Sopot, PL – Opera Lesna 20 – Berlin, DE – Zitadelle

Meanwhile, Led Zeppelin have become one of the latest legendary bands to join TikTok.

The band’s full discography is now available for users to soundtrack their posts with, and the new account promises Led Zeppelin-themed artwork, graphics, archive live performances and more.

The band join the likes of The Beatles and ABBA in joining TikTok in 2021, with the former adding 36 of their biggest hits to the platform including ‘Hey Jude’, ‘Love Me Do,’ ‘The Long and Winding Road,’ ‘I Want To Hold Your Hand,’ ‘Something, ‘Eleanor Rigby’, ‘Day Tripper’ and ‘Paperback Writer.’

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Robert Plant and Alison Krauss add 13 dates to their U.S. summer concert tour, starting in San Diego

Their ‘Raising the Roof’ tour will now also include shows in Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Berkeley, Salt Lake City and Austin

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Robert Plant and Alison Krauss’ 2022 summer U.S. “Raising the Roof” concert tour is adding some additional roofs to raise, starting with a mid-August date in San Diego at The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park.

Plant, the former Led Zeppelin singer, and Krauss, the bluegrass queen who has won 27 Grammy Awards, on Monday announced 13 new dates and cities for the tour. It’s their first joint concert trek since their “Raising Sand” tour in 2008, which included a sold-out San Diego show at Humphreys.

The “Raising Sand” tour was name after Plant and Krauss’ first duo album, which went on to win six Grammys, including Album and Record of the Year. The two did not make another album together until last year’s “Raise the Roof,” which topped a number of 2021 “best of the year” lists.

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Plant and Krauss’ newly announced 2022 tour leg will also include four other California dates: Aug. 17 at Santa Barbara Bowl; Aug. 18 at Los Angeles’ Greek Theatre; Aug. 21 at Berkeley’s Greek Theatre; and Aug. 23 at Napa’s Oxbow River Stage.

Tickets for the tour go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday to the general public and are priced at $59 to $150 for the San Diego concert, plus service charges, through ticketmaster.com. Presales will begin at 7 a.m. Tuesday. More information is available at plantkrauss.com/#tour .

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Aug. 15: San Diego — The Rady Shell @ Jacobs Park

Aug. 17: Santa Barbara — Santa Barbara Bowl

Aug. 18: Los Angeles — The Greek Theatre

Aug. 20: Stateline, Nev. — Lake Tahoe Outdoor Arena at Harvey’s

Aug. 21: Berkeley — The Greek Theatre

Aug. 23: Napa — Oxbow River Stage

Aug. 25: Bend, Ore. — Hayden Homes Amphitheater

Aug. 27: Troutdale, Ore. — Edgefield Amphitheater

Aug. 28: Redmond, Wash. — Marymoor Park

Aug. 30: Salt Lake City — Sandy Amp

Sept. 1: Morrison, Colo. — Red Rocks Amphitheatre

Sept. 3: Grand Prairie, Texas — Texas Trust CU Theatre at Grand Prairie

Sept. 4: Austin, Texas — Moody Amphitheater

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Robert Plant and Alison Krauss Talk Reuniting for Their New Album

By Lisa Robinson

“Let’s catch the fire and see what we’ve got,” Robert Plant said about why he and Alison Krauss went back into the studio to record their new album, Raise the Roof, the follow-up to 2007’s six-time Grammy-winning album Raising Sand. With their combined talents and diverse tastes, the cliché about the odd coupling of bluegrass princess Krauss and rock god Plant doesn’t apply. Along with their first album and tour, this reunion, recorded prior to the pandemic (with a 2022 tour to follow), is a testimony to their mutual respect for a wide spectrum of music—country, soul, folk, and blues. Their collaboration was, once again, produced by T Bone Burnett, who played guitar, contributed song ideas, and assembled the musicians. Here, in two separate phone calls conducted by Lisa Robinson—Plant from England and Krauss from Nashville—they talk about their love of traditional American music and their work with, and admiration for, each other.

Lisa Robinson: Especially after your huge success with Raising Sand, why did it take 14 years for you to work together again?

Robert Plant: You tend to get preoccupied with the forces of the moment. I keep landing in all sorts of different places, and I never think about continuity on any level—although I like adventures. As you might remember, my head is quite easily turned, and if I get an offer to do something a little left of center, I’m gone.

Alison Krauss: We never really stopped talking about it. I used to hear Lucinda Williams [who sings backing vocals on the album] sing “Can’t Let Go” for years, and I thought it would be so much fun to do it with Robert. I’d send him songs and he’d send me songs back. We both did other things, but this was the perfect time.

Plant: Alison and I had both been on the road with projects that at least temporarily were coming to a finale. The door opened, so I just got on a plane and made my way to Alison’s front door again. And T Bone was thrilled—the energy was just growing.

Krauss: We didn’t want it to be a continuation; we wanted this album to have its own identity, and it does. Through the years we thought, wouldn’t this be nice, wouldn’t this be nice, then when it’s time, when things are inspired, everything comes together real quick.

The two of you started working together in 2004 when you performed together at Robert’s request in Cleveland at a Lead Belly tribute concert. Why do you think the combination of the two of you works so well?

Plant: The great thing about us working together was, is, and remains the enthusiasm and the diligence about it. Even though some of these songs are coming out of the ark, they are evocative and quite magical—never mind how they’re translated. It shouldn’t have worked, but it did.

Krauss: The first conversation I ever had with Robert was about [the late banjo legend] Ralph Stanley. When people asked me about Robert and I told them that, they said, “No way.” Bluegrass folks thought that was so amazing, and I had no idea he knew about any of that.

Plant: I know my way around the Delta pretty well, and I still love listening to those records from the 1930s—King Solomon Hill, early Lemon Jefferson stuff. I mean I’m British, but something must have happened along the line; maybe my mother played some weird shit before I was born. Think about it, you and I have known each other a long time, and I thought I knew America—I was steeped in Skip James and Bukka White, but I never really knew America until I worked with Americans.

Krauss: My experience of working with Robert was that he was such a generous personality. When anyone would ask, I would say you’d love him, and he’d love you. He’s a student of all kinds of music. You won’t find anyone more respectful of other people’s experience and expertise in a certain genre. He’d say listen to this, watch this…like Egyptian music or African music—just such a love of history. When he was living in Texas, he was reading about the history of the land; he was fascinated by the music that came from there.

Plant: I feel like a kind of overactive and overly chronologically gifted student. I’m always interested in what’s going to happen around the corner. After Raising Sand, I went on my way and played with Buddy Miller and Patty Griffin, and they were extraordinarily talented people who knew songs and artists I never knew, so I was very lucky. Then I saw Alison, we were both playing on a show with Willie Nelson—I think in Oklahoma—and I was really enjoying hearing her sing in her loquacious, beautiful style. We just led towards each other again.

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After all those old Zeppelin tales about sexual antics and raging your way around the world, you’ve now worked with some very strong women—Alison and Patty. Do you feel you’ve evolved both musically and personally?

Plant: Well, I hear you Lisa, but I don’t always make a great job of everything. Wouldn’t it be great if there were no flaws in the picture, but unfortunately…I’m just bumbling along, and I’ve been very fortunate to spend time with these people.

You always told me you didn’t want to go back and do what you described as “poodle rock.”

Plant: Well, I did have the mullet, so I was at the scene of the crime….

Were you involved in the Zeppelin documentary shown at this year’s Venice Film Festival?

Plant: Minorly. I’m fully aware of all this, but it’s really hard to get romantic about it—despite the fact that it changed my life and allowed me to mature and to move through the sphere. I’m not very good at reminiscing.

I think the slowed-down, sensual version of [Zeppelin’s] “Black Dog” that you and Alison did live on the Raising Sand tour is the best version of that song.

Plant: I agree. And everything has its time if you’re lucky. I was 21, 22, 23 years old when we sang those songs. You’ve got to give us a margin for some untoward enthusiasm. Ultimately, it becomes what it becomes. I listen to that [old] stuff now, and the energy is magnificent, [but] I don’t really know the guy who’s singing. I’ve heard a lot about him, but I don’t know what the hell his game was.

Were you both shocked at getting six Grammys for Raising Sand, including record and album of the year in 2009?

Krauss: Everything about [the success of] that whole record was a shock. Being in the studio together was so lighthearted….

Plant: Bear in mind, I’ve been making records since 1966, and I’d never had a Grammy. At that event, I was thinking, This is not where I’m actually supposed to be. And Alison said, “Oh, shut up.” And every time we went up to the podium, I kept seeing Coldplay start to stand up, and I’d say, “Sit down! My turn! Fuck off!”

Were they standing up because they thought they were going to win or giving you a standing ovation?

Plant: Well, I think they had to modify one for the other halfway through.

Alison, you had the most Grammys of any woman—27—until this past year. Now Beyoncé has 28.

Krauss: I think she is just one of the most amazing people I’ve ever seen. She is a force of nature. Seeing her with Tina Turner [at the 2008 Grammys] was just unbelievable; to see someone honor someone so well and remain their own. I walked by her once, and I remember everything—the dress she had on, and I thought she just had the most beautiful face, just shocking.

You finished this record right before the world shut down. How did COVID affect the album’s completion?

Krauss: We finished the last overdub two days before everything shut down, and then I was in the studio while T Bone and [engineer] Michael Piersante mixed it.

Plant: There were some minor details. I went back to England, where, for the last 10 years, I’ve been working in a studio near Peter Gabriel’s studio near Bath. So I was able to fly my harmonies in here and there, taking instructions from the gang in Nashville.

How did you narrow it down to 12 songs?

Krauss: That was hard. But we had to. We had more than that that we liked. But our label [Rounder] allows us to be artists; it’s a real gift to be able to keep your privacy ’bout what you’re working on and not to have to expose it until you’re ready.

Plant: It’s like, when are you going to let this thing go? Shall we wait until 2022? To be honest, I’m no spring chicken anymore, and I want to hear some singing that’s coming out that’s got a new lean to it. So you’ve just got to let it go.

Why the title Raise the Roof ?

Plant: In England, when we really kick ass and go for it, we say “raise the roof.” There’s no hiding place. Here it comes. It’s a musical explosion.

Krauss: We felt like it was a celebration.

Hair, Marwa Bashir (Plant) and John Grimes (Krauss); makeup and grooming, Lorrie Turk; set design, Ruby Guidara. produced on location by Carey Kotsionis. for details, go to VF.com/credits.

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While the world goes giddy at the prospect of Robert  Plant taking centre stage once again with Led Zeppelin to exhort the hordes of lucky ticket lottery winners to squeeze his lemon, Plant releases an album that some would say more agreeably befits a man of his considerable experience. 

Teaming up with Alison Krauss, the delightful bluegrass singer and fiddle player from Illinois, and producer T Bone Burnett, Plant goes back to a few roots, teasing out the nerves of some wonderful if obscure American country, folk and blues songs of all ages and resurrecting them in thoughtful, fresh surroundings. 

As a result, Raising Sand is devoid of cliché. The Everly Brothers’ Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On) , performed with a primitive, backyard modesty that resists any temptation to show off, shows respect and affection for early rock’n’roll. The same is true of Plant’s vocals, which across the album are usually subtle, understated, tailored to the arrangements and to Krauss’s singing rather than to his reputation for champion-league wailing

He’s commendably subdued in his solo rendition of Townes Van Zandt’s Nothin’ , his voice attuned to a strangely oppressive atmosphere in which Krauss’s violin labours under the weight of some terribly heavy load. And far from hogging the limelight on Gene Clark’s Through the Morning, Through The Night , a stately country and western waltz, Plant hands the leading lines to a melodious Krauss. 

Only once, towards the end of the tuneful Plant/Page co-write Please Read The Letter (a reworking of the track from 1998’s Walking Into Clarksdale ), does he resort to the famous moan, but it’s not a full-blown melodrama. Krauss sings with a sweet, sometimes ethereal beauty, with a bluesy edge on the solo outing Let Your Loss Be Your Lesson , and with a purity that interacts surprisingly well with Plant’s mature counterpart. 

They share things democratically, sometimes joining forces and sometimes performing whole songs, or parts of them, alone, and seem to revel in the collaboration. Nowhere is this more affecting than in Killing The Blues and Stick With Me Baby , gentle, pretty offerings sung in harmony and with the utmost sensitivity. Plant’s breathy restraint gives foundation to the delicacy of Krauss in Killing The Blues , a country ballad with chiming pedal steel and a remarkably unhurried pace. Stick With Me Baby ambles along with a slight swing and a matching, muted, whispery delivery from the partners.

Generally, this is not an up-tempo collection. Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On) has a lively, light-hearted feel and Let Your Loss Be Your Lesson is based on country rock, but elsewhere the focus is on interpretation and innovation rather than velocity. Polly Come Home , another Gene Clark cover, is sparse and beautifully hypnotic, with Plant’s lead vocals murmuring and drifting over the enormous spaces between booming drum beats and lazy guitar licks, while Krauss adds a dreamy presence, audibly drawing breath between her lines.

There’s something of the same atmospheric ambition about the pacier Rich Woman , on which the dual vocals sail along on a sea of shimmering guitar. Sister Rosetta Goes Before Us serves as a showcase for Krauss, with Plant content to croon ‘aah’s in the background as mandolins flutter and fiddles dance around Krauss’s swooping performance, her most intimate on the album. The foundation of the song is the sort of jarring, toytown clippety-clop beloved of, say, Tom Waits , and indeed Waits is represented here with Trampled Rose . Again it’s a lone Krauss vocal, reaching up high for notes and sounds to match the spooky atmospherics of the instruments. 

Plant and Krauss are together again in harmony for Your Long Journey , a jangling, folksy song of love, death and parting – an appropriate if slightly morbid conclusion to the album. As Zeppelin take their place as rock’s biggest band, Plant should be equally as proud of what he has achieved here.

The review was originally published in Classic Rock 112, in September 2007 .

Carol Clerk wrote extensively for Melody Maker in the 80s and 90s, and then for Uncut and Classic Rock . In 1985 she won a journalist of the year award from the Professional Publishers Association for her coverage of the Live Aid concert at Wembley. She ghostwrote gangster Reggie Kray's autobiography and was the author of books about Madonna, the Pogues, Hawkind and others, as well as Vintage Tattoos: The Book of Old-School Skin Art . She died in March 2010.

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A collaboration between the former lead singer of Led Zeppelin and one of the most-awarded Grammy winners in history was always going to be newsworthy. But not even Robert Plant or  Alison Krauss themselves could have imagined the worldwide impact that Raising Sand, released on October 23, 2007, would make both on the public and on their careers.

At the 2009 Grammy Awards, the album took Krauss’ tally of wins from 21 to 26 (she subsequently won a 27th, to tie with Quincy Jones as the living artist with the most victories). The record also won CMA and CMT Awards and went platinum in both the U.S. and the U.K., as well as in Sweden. But over and above all of the commercial achievements, Raising Sand was hailed around the world as a creative high point in both of these long and distinguished careers.

The key to the connection that the album made with audiences everywhere was the team around it, headed by the expert production of T-Bone Burnett, and an inspired choice of cover material. Plant, an avowed devotee of American roots music in all its forms, proved to be perfectly matched with Krauss, the artist who has done more to popularise bluegrass than any other in recent decades.

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While all of the songs on Raising Sand were covers, many of them would have been unfamiliar to contemporary record buyers, and in any case the imaginative treatments of them took the songs into fascinating new areas. The Everly Brothers’ “Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On),” for example, adopted a shimmering, almost rockabilly beat, a fine example of the way that Plant and Krauss’ voices dovetailed perfectly. Allen Toussaint’s “Fortune Teller” was given a spare treatment that contrasted nicely with Benny Spellman’s 1962 soul original for the Minit label.

Two Gene Clark songs that he recorded in 1969 with Doug Dillard, in their work as Dillard & Clark, were included, “Polly Come Home” and “Through The Morning, Through The Night.” So were numbers by other great traditionalists such as Townes Van Zandt (“Nothin’’’), country star Mel Tillis (“Stick With Me Baby”) and the opening “Rich Woman,” written by Dorothy LaBostrie, best known as the co-writer of Little Richard ’s “Tutti Frutti,” and McKinley Millet.

Among the most effective vehicles for Krauss’ charming delivery was “Sister Rosetta Goes Before Us,” written by singer-songwriter Sam Phillips (no relation to the Sun Records founder of the same name). But one of the most widely-remembered track from the project had Plant covering himself, on “Please Read The Letter,” which he first recorded with Zeppelin colleague Jimmy Page for their 1998 album Walking Into Clarksdale . Both are credited as co-writers with Charlie Jones and Michael Lee.

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Krauss and Plant would resume their respective careers after Raising Sand , but it stands as one of the finest albums of the 2000s and a staging post for both of them. In the autumn of 2021, the pair reunited momentously, and again under Burnett’s watchful eye, for the new album   Raise The Roof. 

Buy or stream Raising Sand .

Danny Carman

March 7, 2015 at 3:51 pm

Awesome duo

Melinda Colon.

December 31, 2021 at 1:39 pm

This is the album I go to when I’m happy, when I’m sad. I’m 75 years old. Married 56 years. Sometimes I sit in my Ford Flex and play this album, drink wine and play this full blast. My Flex has a great bass stereo. My grandson wonders why I do this. I do it because that is the one album that expresses my life and love. Especially the last tract.

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Review: Robert Plant, Alison Krauss in Raising Sand Tour

• Published: Oct. 01, 2008, 7:19 a.m.

• Luciana Lopez, The Oregonian

I had high expectations for the Robert Plant/Alison Krauss show at the Rose Garden Theater of the Clouds on Tuesday night. After all, the album they made together (along with T Bone Burnett, who deserves vast credit for bringing the project together), "Raising Sand," topped my 2007 list . And the tour has been getting great reviews across the country. So the show caused me both excitement and some trepidation. The former was rewarded, the latter assuaged: The tour's Portland stop was as excellent as I could have hoped. Of course, considering the talent among Krauss, Plant and Burnett, as well as their accumulated years as pros, that's not a surprise. Plant, of course, is the frontman for Led Zeppelin; Krauss was a bluegrass prodigy who's built a career stretching beyond that genre while still paying it respect; and Burnett has earned fame as a performer, a songwriter and a producer (including on the "Raising Sand" album).

The joining of the three was somewhat of a surprise last year, but the match paid off, with a gorgeous album that drew on everyone's respective backgrounds to make an album none of them could have made alone. Happily, that take-home lesson must have stuck, because the show built on that format, with songs from the album as well as from the previous careers of each of the three main musicians (just a note here: big ups to the backing band, who were simply outstanding -- one multi-instrumentalist played so many instruments I lost count, and the drummer had some of the best dynamics I've heard in awhile).

That meant "Raising Sand" songs, Zeppelin songs, Krauss songs and more, all rearranged for this particular format. Even in a great concert, though, some songs stand out. Krauss' "Down to the River to Pray" (of "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" fame) got performed as an a capella quartet, a beautiful arrangement that let Krauss' voice soar and shine. "Black Country Woman" sounded far better with a banjo than I had ever imagined it could. And the "Battle of Evermore" was one of several songs that drew a standing ovation from an audience appreciative of the way Plant's and Krauss' voices rose and twined together. "Raising Sand" brings out some of Krauss' inner darkness, and some of Plant's hidden softness, with Burnett acting as the bridge between the two.

While Krauss is the youngest of the three main musicians (Plant and Burnett are each 60; Krauss is 37), she was the equal of both the older men, who've had careers longer than she's been alive. The three seemed to have a deep respect and affection for each other, perhaps another reason why the project's been so successful.

Maybe that's also why Plant seemed to hint that the project could continue. "We have got to keep it up," Plant said when he finally addressed the crowd -- "it" being left undefined. Later, at the show's end, he added: "Stick around for the next couple years." Oh really?

Opener Sharon Little, in contrast, is very much a newbie: This is her first tour. She's got talent as a rock singer-songwriter; her voice has confidence and power, with depth of emotion and some real soul. Her stage presence, though, needs work; her body language, her demeanor between songs and even her outfit -- a froufy Cyndi Lauper-ish skirt and a... beret? with.... feathers? or something? -- were frankly distracting. (I usually hate commenting on women's appearances, because I don't want to contribute to the music industry's sexism, but this skirt seriously detracted from her performance.) Still, those things can be changed. What matters is she has the promise as a musician to maintain a career over the long term, if she sets herself to it.

-- Luciana Lopez; [email protected]

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For thousands of years, man has been attracted to the Sand Lake area in search of wildlife. Early-day Indians and later fur traders and white explorers, such as John C. Fremont and Joseph N. Nicollet, hunted waterfowl and other game in and around Sand Lake's marshes and grasses. In the late 1870s, the first homesteaders began settling in the James River Valley. They, too, found Sand Lake and the James River areas excellent places to hunt game, primarily for food. Today, thousands of visitors are likewise drawn to the Sand Lake area by a rich abundance of wildlife. 

However plentiful, the wildlife of the northern prairies was not inexhaustible. Once settlement began, prairie wildlife was increasingly threatened by man's encroachment into their habitat. Native grasslands were plowed and wetlands drained. By the 1930s, virtually all wetlands were dry. A combination of wetland drainage and drought transformed wet prairies into a land of blowing dust and dry wetland basins. Waterfowl numbers plummeted to an all-time recorded low. 

Concerned citizens responded by supporting restoration of waterfowl habitat. Sand Lake National Wildlife Refuge was created in 1935 as a part of the effort to rebuild waterfowl populations. It is managed by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. Once Sand Lake became a refuge, work began to make it even more attractive to wildlife. With the help of local residents, low dams were built to permit manipulation of water levels and marsh vegetation. Uplands were planted to provide food and cover for wildlife. Through these efforts, the Sand Lake area was transformed into a refuge that became nationally famous for its abundant wildlife.

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