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ROBERT PLANT, ALISON KRAUSS: 'Raising Sand' Audio Samples, Interview Footage Available

September 17, 2007

LED ZEPPELIN legend Robert Plant and Alison Krauss collaborated on an eclectic repertoire of material on "Raising Sand", due Oct. 23 via Rounder. Among the tracks appearing on the T Bone Burnett-produced project are the EVERLY BROTHERS' "Gone, Gone, Gone (Done Moved On)", TOM WAITS and KATHLEEN BRENNAN's "Trampled Rose" and "Please Read the Letter", first released on the 1998 PLANT/JIMMY PAGE album "Walking Into Clarksdale".

"Raising Sand" track listing:

01. Rich Woman
02. Killing the Blues
03. Sister Rosetta Goes Before Us
04. Polly Come Home
05. Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On)
06. Through the Morning, Through the Night
07. Please Read the Letter
08. Trampled Rose
09. Fortune Teller
10. Stick with Me Baby
11. Nothin'
12. Let Your Loss Be Your Lesson
13. Your Long Journey

Listen to the first single, "Gone, Gone, Gone (Done Moved On)", at this location (Real media). Additional samples are available at Amazon.com.

According to Billboard.com, Plant and Krauss first performed together in 2004 at a Leadbelly tribute at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, but it took several years before they found time to team up in the studio with Burnett in Nashville and Los Angeles.

Watch an eight-minute EPK (Electronic Press Kit) for "Raising Sand":

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