T Bone Burnett - electric guitar, mellotron, harmony vocals Robert Plant and Alison Krauss - lead and harmony vocals It's another blend that we've got, and long may we have more of them."
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"I love the whole kaleidoscope of music that I've explored, but this is a place where you can think within the song, you can decide how to bring home an emotion. "It's such a far cry from everything I've done before," says Plant. The rest of "Raise The Roof" includes deep cuts by Merle Haggard, Allen Toussaint, THE EVERLY BROTHERS, Anne Briggs, Geeshie Wiley, Bert Jansch, Calexico and more. "Working with Robert, and with T Bone, is always a great education in music history." "One of my favorite parts of this is the songs and songwriters that I had never heard of," says Krauss. Recorded at Nashville's Sound Emporium Studios, sessions for "Raise The Roof" began in late 2019 and wrapped just weeks before the world went into lockdown. "High And Lonesome" is the collection's lone original, written by Plant and T Bone Burnett, who reprises his "Raising Sand" role as the album's producer. As NPR Music says: "This feels like a warm welcome back from two old friends you haven't seen in a long time," and across "Raise The Roof", their voices "still fit together like a pair of dusty boots nestled atop a welcome mat" ( New York Times). "Can't Let Go" is a rendition of the Randy Weeks/ Lucinda Williams classic that reaffirmed Rock And Roll Hall Of Famer Plant and 27-time Grammy winner Krauss as "one of the most critically adored odd couples of music" ( USA Today). Like its platinum-selling 2007 predecessor, "Raising Sand" - which won six Grammys, including "Album" and "Record Of The Year" - "Raise The Roof" delivers new takes on songs from legends and unsung heroes of folk, blues, country and soul music. Out November 19 on Rounder Records, "Raise The Roof" has been named one of the most anticipated LPs of the fall by the New York Times, New York magazine, Entertainment Weekly and more. Then there's the eight-minute "Once Upon a Time There Was a World," which sounds like an unwitting parody of suicidal teenage angst in its over-the-top sorrow for itself, yet backed with a creepy organ-fuzz arrangement of almost funereal grandeur.Robert Plant and Alison Krauss have released the official lyric video for the song "Can't Let Go", from their first new album in fourteen years.
And some goofy psychedelic touches appear without warning, like the cheap outer space signals in "Colours" the Harpo Marx-like horn interjections in the same tune the atomic explosion that ends "Hang Out" the out-of-nowhere distant, cornered-wolf yells of "A New Man" the weird, slightly off-key plunks of "I Think It's All Right," which ring like a tapped wine glass and the funk rock guitar of "I'm Crazy," which sounds halfway between a chicken-scratch and a drawer being opened and closed, giving way to a harem organ. Although the vocals (all in English) are often lovelorn laments, they drip with snarling attitude veering from don't-give-a-damn bluesiness to abject self-pity, mixing in a psychedelic sense of disorientation that sets the songs aside from the more conventional romantic lyrics of earlier mid-'60s garage bands.
That organ really vibrates with a menace, sometimes like a distant cousin to the Doors, but with a more adolescent, untutored sensibility. Yet mucho eccentricity and spontaneity make it more interesting than many such relics. The Mexican Kaleidoscope's sole, self-titled album is like many American '67-'68 psych-garage obscurities in its morose, frequently minor-keyed blend of ominous organ and fuzz guitars.
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