Raising Sand Sep 6 2010

With a Nod to His Past, Plant Moves On Again
wn-of-time heavy rock. Instead banjo, pedal steel guitar, double bass and songs about Jesus pointed in an even more venerable direction: to old-fashioned country music and rockabilly.Plant's last solo LP, Raising Sand, winner of Grammy album of the year in 2009, was a . His new album, Band of Joy, o...

Robert Plant plumbs roots music again
Raising Sand 29, 2010 PLAYLIST Robert Plant plumbs roots music again MARTIN BANDYKE Robert Plant takes a road trip through all sorts of roots music on "Band of Joy" (**** out of four stars, out Sept. 14), his first album since "Raising Sand," the Grammy Award-winning collaboration with bluegrass queen Alison Kr...

Top 10 albums of the autumn
September Having bagged five Grammies for his superlative roots album with Alison Krauss, Raising Sand, Plant has clearly hit a latter-day motherlode....

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Sure, the Honeydrippers sucked but his Raising Sand collaboration with Alison Krauss was a top-to-bottom delight, his solo records almost unfailingly ambitious and the Page & Plant duet of 1994-99 a nice way to acknowledge the past without being excessively beholden to it. Mojo caught up with Pl...

Robert Plant interview: singer happy to entertain without Led Zeppelin reunion
In 2007, his extraordinary, ethereal album with the bluegrass singer Alison Krauss, Raising Sand, set him on another path, exploring roots Americana. It went on to win five Grammy awards in the US, including Album of the Year. But just as his Krauss collaboration was lifting off, Zeppelin reunited f...