The Listening Party is over. Raise the roof it's out now.
Come to an online listening party for Robert Plant and Alison Krauss' first album in 14 years, Raise the roof. With critic and NPR Music correspondent Ann Powers in the host chair, we'll have a live chat with the artists.
When Plant and Krauss first announced their first collaboration more than a decade ago, eyebrows were raised. Here was the lead singer of Led Zeppelin and a bluegrass country singer/violist meeting for something subdued. “While Sand lifting it is indeed diligent, mostly low-key and beautiful,” said Ken Tucker in his review of Clean Air“it's also exquisitely beautiful, with an undercurrent of dark humor that makes a crucial difference to a collection of harmony songs like this.”
Raise the roof rekindles that old spark as the duo perform songs by the Everly Brothers, Calexico, Allen Toussaint and Olla Belle Reed, in addition to an original tune, “High and Lonesome.” The album is in some ways quieter and more haunting than the first, but also deeper and more invested in musical history.
