Out on the tiles

Fourteen years after Raising Sand, the superstar harmony duo return to lofty heights.

John Mulvey

Robert Plant & Alison Krauss ★★★★ Raise The Roof WARNER MUSIC. CD/DL/LP MORE THAN most, Robert Plant knows the value of a good myth. In his telling, one suspects, even a trip to the supermarket can become an epic quest across the Welsh Marches. There will be ancient paths retraced, mystical scholarship indulged and, ultimately, redemption - though what Plant returns with might not be what those at home were expecting. He can bring a certain nobility to career choices both capricious and expedient, and romantic gravity to the most pragmatic decisions. So it is with this second album in the company of Alison Krauss and producer T Bone Burnett, and its artful wrangling of country, folk, blues and R&B into a misty recalibration of Americana. On one level, it…

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