It could be said that Raising Sand is as much a T-Bone Burnett album as it is an Alison Krauss–Robert Plant album. The perpetually besuited producer was surely the mastermind behind the disc, rounding up a killer group of old songs that went on to win the 2009 Grammy for Album of the Year. Still, without the vocals of Krauss and Plant, it would be nothing more than some really great instrumentals. That year, TIME included the collaboration in its top 10 albums of the year, writing, “The moments when Krauss abandons her precision soprano and lets loose are breathtaking, but it’s Plant, toned down to a delicate mountain twang, who’s the real surprise; you can actually count the moments he showboats on one finger.”
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