Tag Archives: Alison Krauss

If You Could Read My Mind

There’s a show taking place at the University Concert Hall in Limerick tonight that I wouldn’t mind seeing but I can’t make it due to work commitments. Even if I was available, however, I’d prefer not to hand over my money to the performer in question. Joe Power hails from Liverpool and is, wait for it, a medium whose main claim to fame is that he can communicate with the dead. I must admit that I’d never heard of the guy until I read about his visit to Limerick in a local newspaper last week. Since then, I’ve read a few articles about him and also watched a rather interesting documentary that attempts to discover what makes him tick

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Best Albums of the 00s: Raising Sand

Raising Sand - Robert Plant & Alison Krauss (2007)

The 2007 collaboration between the former lead singer of Led Zeppelin and an American bluegrass musician is number nine in my chronological countdown of the albums I’ve enjoyed the most since 2000. Raising Sand is a country-flavoured collection of thirteen cover versions of songs written by such renowned songwriters as Gene Clark, Tom Waits and Townes Van Zandt. The songs were chosen by the album’s producer and guitarist, T-Bone Burnett, who also assembled the excellent band that includes such wonderful musicians as Marc Ribot and Norman Blake. The real delight, however, is the pretty impressive vocal collaboration between Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, who also plays a mean fiddle. I must admit that I was surprised when I first heard that they would be working together

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