Robert plant & alison krauss joined npr music's listening party for 'raise the roof'


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UPDATED NOVEMBER 22, 2021 AT 3:47 PM ET _The Listening Party is over. _Raise the Roof _is out now. _ Join us in an online listening party for Robert Plant and Alison Krauss' first album


together in 14 years, _Raise the Roof_. With NPR Music critic and correspondent Ann Powers in the host chair, we'll feature a live conversation with the artists. When Plant and Krauss


first announced their debut collaboration more than a decade ago, eyebrows were raised. Here was Led Zeppelin's lead singer and a bluegrass-country singer/fiddler coming together for


something subdued. "While _Raising Sand_ is indeed assiduously mannerly, mostly low-key and pretty," Ken Tucker said in his review for _Fresh Air_, "it's also starkly


beautiful, with an undercurrent of bleak humor that makes a crucial difference in a collection of harmony songs like this." _Raise the Roof_ reignites that old spark, as the duo


interprets songs by The Everly Brothers, Calexico, Allen Toussaint and Olla Belle Reed, in addition to one original tune, "High and Lonesome." The album is somehow quieter and more


haunting than the first, but also deeper and more invested in music history. Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.