Customer Reviews
eclectic percy - By: blues picker, 05 Nov 2008 
Should be no surprise to find Robert Plant making great music with any musician. Being famous for making musicin one genre has never stopped this singer from admiring other forms. He has, after all, appeared with Fairport at Cropredy & was an admirer of the Incredible String Band backin the day. Nice to hear these two together & with such a great band of musicians. Good also, to hear a Doc Watson song being aired. Be interesting to hear Zep cover Doc eh?
An Over-rated Wasted Opportunity - By: Heathfield, 21 Oct 2008 
I'm a fan of both Plant & Krauss & bought this CD without having heard any tracksin advance. I reckoned the juxtaposition of two great but very different talents was bound to resultin something new & interesting. Ouch!!! How wrong I was. I sold it on eBay the next week.
This album sounds like the pair were brought together by their marketing teams to make an unchallenging, easy-listening sure-fire hit for a bland middle of the road market. Sure, if this was the intention then the project is a great contribution to their pension funds. But it does nothing to push any musical boundaries or take any risks.
There's a good selection of songs (I've heard many of them performed to much higher standards by other artists) but Plant & Krauss don't capitalise on them at all. The performances are routine, the harmonies - which are few & far between - are predictable & uninspired, & the very respectable band sound bored. Where are the soaring vocals, the heartbreak, the anger? Where is the empathy & interaction between the singers, & with the band?
I understand this album was one of those projects where the singers never met, choosing instead to record their partsin separate studios at separate times. And presumably the band parts were recorded first so that Krauss & Plant could add the vocals later, karaoke style. If this is the case, it's no wonder it sounds so DULL, DULL, DULL.
Interestingly, all reports are that their concerts are fabulous. Maybe once they get together they really do produce magic. But there ain't none of it on the CD.
Like so much other commercial music (and films, TV programmes etc.) this is aimed at an undemanding mass market that laps up such tedious fodder & bestows it accolades & awards. Don't believe a word! Unless, that is, you are a member of the target audiencein which case you might find it more stretching that boy bands, girl bands & other manufactured dross.
Let's hope that after all their touring & actually singing together RP & AK make a follow-up album that shows what they can really do. One lame duck isn't gonna put me off them for good...
Disappointed - By: P. Kent, 25 Sep 2008 Heard great things about this album over some period of time before I bought it, heard Gone, gone, gone & thought Hmmmmm, I'd give it a go.....
Can't say much more than I think it's just a mediocre musical outing by two accomplished performers.
It's not the electric mix of eclectic styles that people make it out to be, it's not a ground-breaking album, it's never going to bein my top ten fave albums [or any list of fave albums].
It is a raggle-taggle collection of songs, some a bit too similar to its partners on the album to make it an overall half-decent listen, it is performed reasonably well, but it lacks any dynamic or soul......allin all not my cup of tea.
If I was on Juke Box Jury I might say I'll give it foive, but as I can only mark up to 5 it gets a 1 & I'll look to pass it on as a gift to some unsuspecting member of my wife's family.
So Good!!! The Golden god did it again!! - By: A. Stringhini, 09 Sep 2008 
Since I got my deliver this morning I can't stop playing it. Their voices work so well together, the music is absorbing & it brings you a very special energy.
And if you want a little bit more of the Golden god buy also Might Rearranger another fantastic CD of Plant.
A dreadful waste of talent - and music buyer's money! - By: Father tyme, 22 Jun 2008 Sadly someone obviously suggested to Robert Plant that this would be a good idea....recording a (mostly) countryesque album with Alison Krauss. They were wrong!! I have no problem with Plant (or anyone else for that matter) trying new things, but please..... this was a bad idea that should have stayed just that.... an idea!! Why on earth so many people feel the need to heap praise on this album is beyond me - it has no redeming qualities to my ears whatsoever - even if Robert Plant is involved.......come to think of it that old story of the Emporer's new clothes comes to mind!!
