Raising Sand
Studio album by Alison Krauss and Robert PlantWikipedia
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Oct 23, 2026
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Hit number 22 on the Billboard Albums chart.
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In 2007, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss released Raising Sand.
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This was a collaboration between the former Led Zeppelin frontman and the bluegrass icon.
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T-Bone Burnett was the producer on it, and the album was huge.
Ryan JansonHOST
Wilco.
Ryan JansonHOST
Their first album, A.M., arrived in 1995, and this was their first single.
Ryan JansonHOST
Here's Box Full of Letters.
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Got a box full of letters Making my life to read Some things that you might like to see But they're all addressed to me I wish I had a lot of answers Cause that's the way it should be But all these questions Be directed at me I just can't find the time To write my mind the way I want it to read You'll come back again And I'll still be your friend I got a lot of your records In a separate stack Some things that I might like to hear, but I guess I'll give them back.
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Ryan JansonHOST
Nico Case wrote this song in response to reports of captive animals attacking people and the astonishment that followed.
Ryan JansonHOST
Her point was that humans expect wild animals to behave like people, then seem surprised when they don't.
Ryan JansonHOST
From her 2009 album Middle Cyclone, here's People Got A Lotta Nerve.
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Still the same as us, an elephant never forgets.
Anne MilitelloGUEST
I worked with Pearl Jam, Robert Plant.
Anne MilitelloGUEST
I met Robert Plant through T-Bone Burnett, worked with him and Alison Krauss on the first Raising Sand tour.
Anne MilitelloGUEST
Leonard Cohen, who, icon, legend, you know.
Anne MilitelloGUEST
I worked with Katie Lang, Neil Young, The Decembrists.
Buddy MillerGUEST
I didn't know really what it meant.
Buddy MillerGUEST
But I became friends with her and her husband T-Bone when we were on that tour, good friends, on the Raising Sand, Robert Plant, Alison Krauss tour.
Blake FarmerHOST
And so- Oh, you knew them through touring
Buddy MillerGUEST
with Alison Krauss and Robert Plant? Yeah, I was guitar player on that tour and T-Bone- And they were on it
Rebecca WilsonHOST
So my last question for you, which I ask everybody on the show, is can you recommend a record top to bottom that you love?
Leanne UngarGUEST
So I would pick Raising Sand by Alison Krauss and Robert Plant.
Leanne UngarGUEST
So a, a duet of the two of them.
Leanne UngarGUEST
And the songs that they pick are great, and the arrangements are great, and the sound is so beautiful.
Janda LaneHOST
Fast forward to 2007.
Janda LaneHOST
Plant teams up with bluegrass star Alison Krauss and producer T-Bone Burnett for an album called Raising Sand.
Janda LaneHOST
On paper, it sounded like a pairing from different planets.
Janda LaneHOST
In practice, it was a quiet, eerie, beautiful record, and it swept the Grammys, including Album of the Year and Record of the Year.
Paul MyersHOST
[laughs]
Buddy MillerGUEST
I, I am one of the worst, but I got to play pedal steel on a few songs on the, uh, Robert Plant r- Alison Krauss tour, on the Raising Sand tour.
Buddy MillerGUEST
I, I sat behind it, um, and got away with it.
Buddy MillerGUEST
Although, um, I did say to Alison Krauss, as she would walk off stage after one of the songs, uh, I, I said, "I have a whole lot more respect for you if on your way off stage if you'd kick that thing over," the pedal steel.
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Paul MyersHOST
He strikes me as a very, uh, music first guy.
Paul MyersHOST
Like, you know, there's a- you, you run into musicians who know, you know, who, who've been crate diggers, people who've gone to record stores and flipped through and know the good ones and maybe also are willing to discover the ones they hadn't heard, you know?
Buddy MillerGUEST
And that's what he was doing on that, uh, first Raising Sand tour.
Buddy MillerGUEST
I mean, we sort of bonded through some, uh, pretty rare country music and old stuff, and Johnny Horton, who he would just ca- call by The Singing Fisherman.
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Oh, these sleepless nights will break my heart in two.
MorrisHOST
The other one, if you remember however many years back, 15, 20 years back, when Alison Krauss and Robert Plant did their album Raising Sand and did a brilliant version of Gone, Gone, Gone.
MorrisHOST
Went back to the Everly Brothers' version-
Shane PaceyHOST
Great version
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Oh, these sleepless nights will break my heart in two.
MorrisHOST
The other one, if you remember however many years back, 15, 20 years back, when Alison Krauss and Robert Plant did their album Raising Sand and did a brilliant version of Gone, Gone, Gone.
MorrisHOST
Went back to The Everly Brothers' version-
Farmer JohnHOST
Great version
Craig HavighurstHOST
Not Enough Time to Change, a reflective and melancholy song from Buddy Miller's newest self-titled project.
Craig HavighurstHOST
As we get into our final segment, I explore some of his famous and extraordinary collaborations, starting with The Raising Sand Project, when Robert Plant teamed up with Alison Krauss for a massive Grammy-winning album.
Craig HavighurstHOST
Buddy wasn't on the record, but he was on the tour, and that led to more.
Craig HavighurstHOST
Here's Buddy.
Buddy MillerGUEST
And we hit it off.
Buddy MillerGUEST
And I guess I didn't.
Buddy MillerGUEST
suck that badly on guitar that night because he we went out for um a pint after the after the show with emmy lou and robert and me and probably brady and um he kept my number and when years later when raising sand uh tour came up i get the call all right And then we became friends.
Buddy MillerGUEST
And then when the second record sort of blew up the first time, he approached me about making a record together and putting a band together.