The Music Box review of the new Robert Plant / Alison Krauss collaboration, Raising Sand, saves his highest praise for the album's producer, T Bone Burnett. The review expects that fans of Burnett's work on Sam Phillips’s A Boot and a Shoe will appreciate Burnett's efforts on the new record. Included among the tracks is Philips's "Sister Rosetta Goes Before Us," which "is delivered as a moody hallucination that comes in the wake of crushing heartache." Her own version of the song will appear on her new album, Don't Do Anything, due early next year on Nonesuch. Burnett's own record is also slated for release next spring.
In the latest issue of The Music Box, writer John Metzger reviews the new Robert Plant / Alison Krauss collaboration, Raising Sand. Metzger has kind words for the two singers but saves his highest praise for the album's producer, T Bone Burnett. He calls the project "Burnett's baby" and expects that fans of T Bone's work on Sam Phillips’s A Boot and a Shoe, in particular, will appreciate Burnett's efforts on the new record.
"He did a magnificent job finding the right songs and sculpting the perfect arrangements for Plant and Krauss to perform," Metzger writes. Included among the tracks is Sam Phillips's "Sister Rosetta Goes Before Us," which, he says, "is delivered as a moody hallucination that comes in the wake of crushing heartache."
Sam's own version of the song will appear on her follow-up to A Boot and a Shoe called Don't Do Anything, due out early next year on Nonesuch. Burnett's own record is also slated for release sometime next spring.
To read the full Music Box review of Raising Sand, visit musicbox-online.com.
