Cheap Cds - Raising Sand

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Summary: Raises the hair on your neck
Comment: Sublime, interesting and flawless. Also, the songs are very well-sourced and perfect for this duet.
For me, reminiscent of Gram Parsons/Emmylou Harris in terms of depth, range and colour.

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Summary: eclectic percy
Comment: Should be no surprise to find Robert Plant making great music with any musician. Being famous for
making music in one genre has never stopped this singer from admiring other forms. He has, after
all, appeared with Fairport at Cropredy and was an admirer of the Incredible String Band back in the
day. Nice to hear these two together and with such a great band of musicians. Good also, to hear a
Doc Watson song being aired. Be interesting to hear Zep cover Doc eh?

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Summary: An Over-rated Wasted Opportunity
Comment: I'm a fan of both Plant and Krauss and bought this CD without having heard any tracks in advance. I
reckoned the juxtaposition of two great but very different talents was bound to result in something
new and interesting. Ouch!!! How wrong I was. I sold it on eBay the next week.

This
album sounds like the pair were brought together by their marketing teams to make an unchallenging,
easy-listening sure-fire hit for a bland middle of the road market. Sure, if this was the intention
then the project is a great contribution to their pension funds. But it does nothing to push any
musical boundaries or take any risks.

There's a good selection of songs (I've heard
many of them performed to much higher standards by other artists) but Plant and Krauss don't
capitalise on them at all. The performances are routine, the harmonies - which are few and far
between - are predictable and uninspired, and the very respectable band sound bored. Where are the
soaring vocals, the heartbreak, the anger? Where is the empathy and interaction between the singers,
and with the band?

I understand this album was one of those projects where the singers
never met, choosing instead to record their parts in separate studios at separate times. And
presumably the band parts were recorded first so that Krauss and Plant could add the vocals later,
karaoke style. If this is the case, it's no wonder it sounds so DULL, DULL, DULL.
/>Interestingly, all reports are that their concerts are fabulous. Maybe once they get together they
really do produce magic. But there ain't none of it on the CD.

Like so much other
commercial music (and films, TV programmes etc.) this is aimed at an undemanding mass market that
laps up such tedious fodder and bestows it accolades and awards. Don't believe a word! Unless, that
is, you are a member of the target audience in which case you might find it more stretching that boy
bands, girl bands and other manufactured dross.

Let's hope that after all their
touring and actually singing together RP and AK make a follow-up album that shows what they can
really do. One lame duck isn't gonna put me off them for good...

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Summary: Disappointed
Comment: Heard great things about this album over some period of time before I bought it, heard Gone, gone,
gone and thought Hmmmmm, I'd give it a go.....

Can't say much more than I think it's
just a mediocre musical outing by two accomplished performers.

It's not the electric
mix of eclectic styles that people make it out to be, it's not a ground-breaking album, it's never
going to be in my top ten fave albums [or any list of fave albums].

It is a
raggle-taggle collection of songs, some a bit too similar to its partners on the album to make it an
overall half-decent listen, it is performed reasonably well, but it lacks any dynamic or
soul......all in all not my cup of tea.

If I was on Juke Box Jury I might say I'll
give it foive, but as I can only mark up to 5 it gets a 1 and I'll look to pass it on as a gift to
some unsuspecting member of my wife's family.

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Summary: So Good!!! The Golden god did it again!!
Comment: Since I got my deliver this morning I can't stop playing it. Their voices work so well together, the
music is absorbing and it brings you a very special energy.
And if you want a little bit more
of the Golden god buy also Might Rearranger another fantastic CD of Plant.

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