I pull out zeps Robert Plant’s collaboration with Alison Krauss. Current mood? Calm and comforted.
The two perform (with beautiful harmony) this really PRETTY group of lyrical love letters. The song titled “please read the letter,” fits perfectly as the embodiment of the central plea for this entire album. You listen once through, then you want to go back and listen again. Each song is not independent in this collection, released in 2007. It’s not linear either. We are lucky to have them do it like this, a gift that keeps on giving, an album that maintains its common theme while giving more to the listener each time. Like holding a crystal in the sunlight, different shades glittering from every angle.
“somebody said they saw me, swinging the world by the tail, bouncing over a white cloud, killing the blues.”
And that’s what this album will do for You. Taking heartbreak, rejection, love lost, or whatever; making it palpable and for some reason, as musicians, artists, poets everywhere may confide, finding those emotions softly enjoyable. To feel, is to breathe in the air of love.
T bone Burnett hand picked these songs specifically for the duo, who need no glue to hold the bunch of them together as they are naturally blended and you can hear that. hopeful and longing, yet mature and understanding. Blue grass, red heart, honest hands.
worth flipping all four sides. Again and again. 🔆
