Raising Sand is a Grammy-award winning collaboration album Robert Plant & Alison Krauss. It was released on 23 October 2007 by Rounder Records. Raising Sand won Album of the Year at both the 2008 Americana Music Honors & Awards and the 2009 Grammy Awards. The album was nominated for the 2008 Mercury Prize in the UK. Featuring covers of established songs, the compilation was picked by the producer, T Bone Burnett.
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Raising Sand is a Grammy-award winning collaboration album Robert Plant & Alison Krauss. It was released on 23 October 2007 by Rounder Records. R… read more
Raising Sand is a Grammy-award winning collaboration album Robert Plant & Alison Krauss. It was released on 23 October 2007 by Rounder Records. Raising Sand won Album of the Year at … read more
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss met at a tribute concert to Leadbelly, and decided to collaborate. They crafted an album together in 2007 titled Raising Sand. The album featured production by T-Bone Burnett and songwriting by Plant, Tom Waits, Sam Phillips, Townes Van Zandt and Gene Clark among others. Throughout 2008, Plant and Krauss, along with Burnett, toured in support of the album. The tour was critically acclaimed. On Feb. 8, 2009, Raising Sand took Album of the Year honors at the Grammy awards. In addition, the song "Please Read the Letter" (a Plant/Page compositi… read more