Robert Plant on his collaborator: “I can hear myself singing underneath, behind, to the left of what Allison’s doing. But invariably, it’s wrong… against that pure, magnificent Alison Krauss voice. I’m quite frightened of it all.”
frontman and the bluegrass-turned-pop singer and violinist — was that it got made at all.
Which raises the question: Why did it take Plant and Krauss 14 years of being besieged with pleas for a follow-up to come through with one? “The question you ask is one that everybody asks,” Plant says, batting away its inevitability. “But it’s a stock question, and it doesn’t exist in my world.” Endeavors will be made to get an answer nonetheless.
She replies, “My brother and I loved when that song came out on MTV. We thought it was the most incredible thing.” Krauss adds: “Through the years we were always sending songs back and forth, saying, ‘Oh, this would be a good one.’ … [But] I try not to do anything that I don’t feel inspired to do — to stay away from anything contrived. And sometimes that’s years and years and years between records.” “I just want to do it at the right time, or things don’t last for you and don’t keep growing in your mind.”
Krauss puts it in less hygienic terms. Plant “is so free with everything that he sings. If someone’s going to play a teeny little thing different in the studio, he’s going to sing it differently. And that’s part of why that’s so magical, because he’s always on the edge, and it’s a beautiful thing. I’ve come from a school of very regimented singing, because if there was a trio, someone’s going to get mad at you if you switch it up; that trio wants consistency.
For Plant, “Raise the Roof” is the latest soul-satisfying chapter in a career reclamation that he says began around 1992. He knew he had to move on when Zeppelin broke up circa 1980, but which path yet untaken remained a question mark; he courted MTV while trying not to sound anything like what he’d left behind, as others swept in to fill that hard-rock void … badly.
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