Vol. 5, No. 6, June 2008
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Leather and Lace
Robert Plant and Allison Krauss appear at the Borgata Event Center Sunday, June 8 at 8 p.m. Tickets are $75 and $95.
This tour is one for the record books, joining legendary rocker Robert Plant with soulful bluegrass artist Allison Krauss. The unlikely duo comes to Borgata for one night only, Sunday, June 8.
Plant, the caterwauling Led Zeppelin frontman who looks as if he’s led at least nine hard lives, first met Krauss through visionary producer T Bone Burnett, perhaps the only man alive who thought this team could work.
It works all right. Since the tour kicked off down south in April, reviews and audience response have been almost ecstatic. Before they hit the road, Plant and Krauss collaborated on the album Raising Sand, a collection that blended urban blues, Texas country, bluegrass and folk-rock. Cover tunes included the Everly Brothers’ “Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On),” Doc Watson’s “Your Long Journey,” and even Zeppelin’s “Black Dog,” which was sung to the accompaniment of (gasp) the five-string banjo.
Expect the duo to perform most of that CD’s lineup, including “Killing the Blues,” “Fortune Teller” and “Through the Morning, Through the Night.”
Burnett has said his aim in bringing together the hard-core rocker and the country troubadour was to “take them out of their comfort zone.” He has successfully done that, persuading Krauss to wail and Plant to pray. It should be great to hear Krauss kick ass on the Zeppelin standard “Black Country Woman,” and Plant sing with a gospel quartet on “Down To The River.” Now this was worth waiting for.
