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What would be your favourite album of 2007 and why?
Raising Sand by Robert Plant and Alison Krauss would be my pick. This rather unusual combination of talents brought together by producer T-Bone Burnett has been on my listening list on a continuous loop.
To answer the question why I like this album, you ought to take a look at the artists involved. Alison Krauss has become one of my favourite artist over the last couple of years. Everyone knows Led Zeppelin and its frontman Robert Plant, one of the best known faces of hard rock. Throw in T-Bone Burnett, a Grammy-award winning producer to bring some Americana into the mixture. The effect of this colloboration is absolutely exhilarating.
Though all 13 songs in the album are not new songs, but reworking of existing ones, the duo breathe new life into songs like Rowland Salley’s Killing The Blues (my favourite) and the Everly Brother’s Gone, Gone, Gone (next favourite). This album is an excellent example to demonstrate vocal harmony. As AMG review puts it, “These two voices meld together seamlessly; they will not be swallowed even when the production is bigger than the song. They don’t soar, they don’t roar, they simply sing songs that offer different shades of meaning as a result of this welcome collaboration.”
Since I like listening to music album by album, I really loved the way how each song segued into the next unlike other albums which abruptly change style. I’ve been recommending this album to everyone I know. You can listen to the songs online at the official site. You can read more extensive reviews of this album at Metacritic.
I’ll write about the albums that I loved this year soon.