Rounder 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
CMT announces Plant / Krauss “Crossroads” broadcast date
Alison Krauss and Robert Plant photo by Pamela Springsteen“CMT Crossroads: Robert Plant and Alison Krauss” will debut on CMT on Feb. 11 at 8 p.m. Selections in the show include “Please Read the Letter,” “Rich Woman” and “Gone, Gone, Gone (Done Moved On)” from last year’s album collaboration, “Raising Sand.”
In addition, they perform the Alison Krauss & Union Station song, “The Boy Who Wouldn’t Hoe Corn,” as well as the Led Zeppelin songs “Black Dog” and “When the Levee Breaks.” T Bone Burnett, who produced Raising Sand, is featured as a special guest. The show was taped in October near Nashville.
No comments‘Raising Sand’ RIAA Certified Gold - Video Debut Today
Alison Krauss and Robert Plant by Pamela SpringsteenBurlington, MA - Raising Sand, the widely praised and bestselling album by Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, produced by T Bone Burnett - has been certified gold by the RIAA. A surprise hit of the season, Raising Sand has shown little sign of slowing down since a remarkable #2 debut on the Billboard 200 four weeks ago, and remains within the top 25 on the chart. Raising Sand is the highest charting and fastest selling album in the history of Rounder Records.
Plant, Krauss, and T Bone Burnett recently completed work on a music video for first single “Gone, Gone, Gone (Done Moved On).” The surreal clip conceived and directed by Rocky Schenck will have a world premier on CMT November 29, and is confirmed for a premiere on VH1 December 3rd.
Shot in Nashville, the video adds a raucous element to the Everly Brothers song, with scenes bouncing between shimmering mylar glitz and a performance stage reminiscent of a vintage Technicolor movie. The video will enter regular rotation on both networks.
