Robert Plant says he’d like to do one other album with Alison Krauss, after their first collaboration since 2007 was nominated for 3 Grammy awards. “I can’t see any reason why not,” the former Led Zeppelin frontman tells Billboard.
He simply cannot afford a lot time between initiatives. “I suppose if we wait another 14 years it could be a bit dicey for me, to be honest,” Plant added. “I might find it a little bit difficult hitting a top C – but we can say it really works well, and we enjoy each other and that’s a great thing, so it seems like a great idea.”
Raise the Roof grew to become their second consecutive Top 5 smash, following the platinum-selling Raising Sand. The 2021 LP has now earned a trio of Grammy nods, together with finest Americana album, finest American roots music (“High and Lonesome”) and – maybe most apparently – for finest nation duo/group efficiency (“Going Where the Lonely Go”).
“The idea of us being considered to be a country duet is fascinating,” Plant now admits. “The thing is, a nomination is a nomination — the very fact that it’s been recognized that we’ve had a good time is more than I could imagine. I didn’t get many Grammys, so to be nominated as a country duet is out of my normal radar. It’s great.”
Plant truly has eight wins, amid a string of 18 nominations that goes again to 1969 when Led Zeppelin misplaced the finest new artist competitors to Crosby, Stills and Nash. Meanwhile, Krauss’ 27 wins and 44 nominations make her the second-most-recognized lady in Grammys historical past, after Beyonce.
Raising Sand earned the deeply related duo an album of the yr trophy at the Grammys. This yr, the identical class will characteristic Lizzo and Coldplay, amongst others. Plant is blunt about his connection to those modern-era stars (“not a lot,” he admits with fun), whereas nonetheless stressing the universality of the artwork that all of them create.
“It’s different worlds, isn’t it? That’s all it is,” he stated. “It’s just like, do you like this, or do you only appreciate stuff that come out of the Mississippi Delta or New Orleans? We’re all musicians; we all do what we do. You have to appreciate everything from where it stands in its own world.”
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