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Universal acclaim- based on 88 Ratings
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Positive: 78 out of 88
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Mixed: 5 out of 88
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Negative: 5 out of 88
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JayT.Nov 15, 2007After two sublimely inventive albums that married progression to musical roots in ways few artists can, Plant decides to embrace the conservative and decades ago overdone. It's both embarrassing and sad, but also very telling that it seems to score higher than any of his truly adventurous solo work.
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MicheleSNov 21, 2007Horrible album. I'm a big AK fan but I don't know what she was thinking when she decided to do this collaboration. Her gorgeous voice is completely drowned out by Plant and the rest of the crew. What a dud!
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Oct 26, 2018I don't know if it was just me, but every track had significant hiss which distracted me from enjoying the album... I don't know if the CD I bought was somehow a dud, but it makes me questions recording or reproduction qualities. Perhaps streaming versions are good quality, but I would suggest not purchasing the CD version. Beyond the hiss, I didn't find the music too inspiring.
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What seems to be an unlikely pairing in the duo of former -- and future apparently--Led Zeppelin vocalist Robert Plant and bluegrass superstar Alison Krauss is actually one of the most effortless-sounding pairings in modern popular music.
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Perhaps only the fantasy duo of King Kong and Bambi could be a more bizarre pairing than Robert Plant and Alison Krauss. Yet on Raising Sand, their haunting and brilliant collaboration, the Led Zeppelin screamer and Nashville's most hypnotic song whisperer seem made for each other
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Robert Plant's pilgrimages to the Deep South led him to Nashville for Raising Sand, an imaginative, seductive collaboration with bluegrass goddess Alison Krauss that explores the desolate valleys between his Delta blues and her Appalachian folk.