Raising Sand
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Free Music Notes for Raising Sand
Free Music Review: Bill's Fifty Words or Less
Hit: 5 Stars
Tennessee mountains,
Mississippi mud,
Honeysuckle wine and
Texas blood.
Rhododendron blooms,
Rusty nails,
Empty rooms and
Mournful wails.
Church door cracks,
Long dusty roads,
Broken hearts and
Heavy loads.
Sneering guitars,
Rattling bones,
Voices from heaven,
Black snake moan.
Funeral cortege and
A Harley ride home.
Mesmerizing Alt-country-bluegrass-rockabilly-gospel-blues Masterwork.
Free Music Review: Unexpected classic.....
Hit: 5 Stars
"Raising Sand" is the haunting and brilliant collaboration between Robert Plant and Allison Krauss; it opens with my favorite track - the Sam Phillips song "Sister Rosetta Goes Before Us", which quickly demonstrates that there's a lot more going on here than the "Led Zeppelin goes Country" preconception that the notion of these two artists working together conjures up. The album continues with track after track enjoyment and surprise. This is yet another triumph for producer T Bone Burnett, who has incisively crafted a breath-taking soundscape, supported by some of the finest musicians working today, where the whole is deliriously more than the sum of the parts. It all sounds so effortless that you know it must have been quite the opposite - dreamy and seductive, this is an unexpected classic.Free Music Review: Less than expected.
Hit: 1 Stars
I'm a fan of Alison's but I was simply disapointed in the merger of these two artists. The musical spark was not there; however, it looks like it is just in their eyes for one another.Free Music Review: Rock God meets Bluegrass Queen
Hit: 5 Stars
I admit the idea seemed kind of silly: matching a rock God with a bluegrass Goddess -- each amazing in their own way but, together? I just wasn't sure.
But good God almighty, there's some serious magic at work here.
Haunting, melancholy, harmonious -- hard to describe but there's something divine in the notes. The pairing is odd but works in a way that's really quite amazing. And seeing them live -- whoa!
If you like deep, moody music (or either of these two musical giants on their own) you must give this album a try. Granted, it's not Zep and it's not Union Station bluegrass -- but that's the point. Together they create something different, a mood... a feeling... an emotion. It's grand. Hurray for the odd pairings! First Emmylou Harris and Mark Knopfler and now this... Raising Sand? No... Raising the bar!
Free Music Review: observation
Hit: 4 Stars
why is there no color at all anywhere on the case or liner notes? It's like viewing the world on a black and white tv set -everything is in various shades of gray. Pretty odd in this day and age to say the least.