AccuRadio Song Of The Day-Robert Plant/Alison Krauss

Artist:Robert Plant/Alison Krauss

Song:Please Read the Letter

Album:Raising Sand

At first most folks will think that Robert Plant and Alison Krauss are an odd couple. But in recent years Plant has experimented with different kinds of music. And their 2007 album Raising Sand was very successful. The album won five Grammys. According to American Songwriter magazine, Plant and Alison met when both appeared on a 2004 Lead Belly tribute show in Cleveland. He already knew about Alison as he heard her on the radio. He contacted her a year later to see if she would like to record with him. Alison suggested that T-Bone Burnett should produce the album. And she also brought in her record label Rounder Records. Plant told the Guardian that Alison taught him how to sing duets. The 2007 album Raising Sand is mostly folk and bluegrass standards. Please Read the Letter is a song written by Plant and Jimmy Page. They recorded it as Page and Plant on the 1998 album Walking into Clarksdale. As I said, the album won five Grammys including Record of the Year for Please Read the Letter and Album of the Year. As you will see in the video, Alison played a fiddle solo. T-Bone Burnett produced and played guitar. The other musicians are session men Marc Ribot on guitar, Dennis Crouch on bass and Jay Bellerose on drums. This album is available on CD. They toured to support it. A follow up album was planned in 2009 and they did record. But it didn't work out. The two released the 2021 album Raise the Roof and toured to support it. Here's the video of Please Read the Letter by Robert Plant/Alison Krauss.