Alison Krauss, Robert Plant release new video: ‘Please Read the Letter’
This is the first video Alison Krauss and Robert Plant released. “Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On) from Raising Sand.
Burlington, MA – Robert Plant and Alison Krauss have just completed a new video for “Please Read the Letter” – the second single off of their celebrated T Bone Burnett-produced album Raising Sand. Set in a sparsely decorated gothic mansion, the video offers an elegant and haunting visual companion to the Robert Plant and Jimmy Page penned tune from the album. “Please Read the Letter” which debuted yesterday on CMT, was shot in Los Angeles by director Rocky Schenck.
Click here to see the video for “Please Read the Letter.”
Raising Sand (Rounder Records) was recently certified RIAA Platinum, and garnered a Grammy® award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals for the track “Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On).” Plant and Krauss are set to embark on a world tour with a band led by T Bone Burnett beginning on April 19th in Louisville, KY.
1 commentKrauss and Plant’s Raising Sand hits platinum mark
Alison Krauss and Robert Plant photo by Pamela SpringsteenBurlington, MA — The Robert Plant and Alison Krauss album “Raising Sand,” produced by T Bone Burnett, has been certified RIAA Platinum. The Rounder Records album debuted at #2 on the Billboard Top 200 chart following its release October 23, 2007, marking the highest chart position ever for the label. It remains inside the top 40 five months later.
Last month, Plant and Krauss were recipients of the 2007 Grammy® Award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals, for the track “Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On).” The Grammy® Award was the first-ever for Robert Plant as a solo artist after numerous nominations, and the 21st for Alison Krauss.
Plant and Krauss will begin their Raising Sand World Tour April 19th in Louisville, KY. Dates have been set through July 1, with more July dates to be announced shortly.
Ticket information for all of the Raising Sand Tour dates is available on the artist’s website: www.robertplantalisonkrauss.com,
-From Rounder
No commentsRounder announces Bluegrass Grammy Winners
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss - Raising Sand (Rounder)Burlington, MA - Rounder Records is pleased to announce that Robert Plant and Alison Krauss were presented with a Grammy® award at last night’s 50th Annual Grammy® Awards ceremony at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. Krauss and Plant received the Grammy® award for ‘Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals‘ for “Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On),” from Raising Sand.
The song is the only track from the album eligible for this year’s Grammy® Awards. Raising Sand debuted at #2 on the Billboard 200 chart following its October 23, 2007 release on Rounder Records and was certified RIAA Gold soon after. The album and subsequent tracks from Raising Sand will be eligible for nominations next year, at the 51st annual awards.
Alison Krauss, as a solo artist, collaborator, producer, and with Union Station, now has 21 Grammy® awards to her credit, the most of any female artist or any country artist.
–From Rounder Records
No commentsCMT previews Plant / Krauss Crossroads show
Alison Krauss and Robert Plant photo by Pamela SpringsteenCMT.com has a preview of the highly anticipated Robert Plant and Alison Krauss episode of Crossroads available online. The show is set to air Feb. 11th on CMT at 7 P.M. CST.
The video clip is of “Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On)” from the unlikely duo’s “Raising Sand” album. The CD was released to critical acclaim in Oct of 2007 and can be viewed here. The backing band on the Crossroads show includes T. Bone Burnett on guitar who also produced the project, Dennis Crouch on Bass and Buddy Miller on Guitar.
Plant and Krauss will also kick off their North American tour April 19th at the Palace Theatre in Louisville, Ky. with additional shows in Knoxville, Chattanooga, New Orleans and Birmingham before kicking off the European leg of the tour. Additional dates are still in the works. For more information visit the Robert Plant / Alison Krauss “Raising Sand” website.
In Other Plant Krauss News:
Below is a clip from the BBC’s “Breakfast” show featuring Robert Plant and Alison Krauss who were interviewed about the “Raising Sand” CD.
Krauss, Plant announce select American tour dates
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss - Raising Sand (Rounder)Alison Krauss and Robert Plant, whose “Raising Sand” album has emerged as one of the past year’s major critical and word-of-mouth sales success stories, will begin an extensive US and European tour April 20 with a brief run of dates in the mid-South. The two lauded musicians will then embark on an 11 date tour of Europe in May before commencing more North American dates for June and July (to be announced).
With a band led by “Raising Sand” producer T Bone Burnett, they will be performing songs together onstage from “Raising Sand,” as well as other songs from their careers.
Previewing the tour, on February 11, CMT will air CMT Crossroads: Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, featuring performances of songs from “Raising Sand” as well as material from both artists’ extensive catalogs.
Confirmed “Raising Sand” North American tour dates are (More dates TBA):
**Tickets for these shows will go on sale Friday, January 25 and are available through Ticketmaster.
- 4/20/08 - Louisville, KY - Palace Theatre
- 4/22/08 - Knoxville, TN - Knoxville Civic Coliseum
- 4/23/08 - Chattanooga, TN - Memorial Auditorium
- 4/26/08 - Birmingham, AL - BJCC Arena
