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Fourteen years after their Grammy Award-winning collaboration Raising Sand, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss are releasing a sequel, Raise the Roof, out Nov. 19, as well as planning a 2022 tour.

After Raising Sand debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200, generated platinum sales, and earned six Grammy Awards including Album and Record of the Year, Robert Plant and 27-time Grammy –winner Alison Krauss have decided to collaborate once again to release music as well as plan tour.

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Reports from Billboard say that like the 2007 effort, the new set will be released via Rounder Records. Also like its predecessor, it will consist of covers made famous by acts such as Merle Haggard, the Everly Brothers, Allen Toussaint, Anne Briggs, Geeshie Wiley, Bert Jansch, and more. Other highlights include a Plant-Burnett original, “High and Lonesome,” and the classic “Can’t Let Go,” written by Randy Weeks and first recorded by Lucinda Williams. The one original on the set is co-written by Plant and returning producer T Bone Burnett. 

The first track, released August 12th is called Can’t Let Go. The song was originally recorded in 1998 by Lucinda Williams. Like the other songs on the album, the swampy, surf-influenced “Can’t Let Go” features a driving beat. The musicians decided to expand their collaboration in new exciting directions, accompanied by drummer Jay Bellerose, guitarists Marc Ribot, David Hidalgo, Bill Frisell, and Buddy Miller, bassists Dennis Crouch and Viktor Krauss, along with pedal steel guitarist Russ Pahl among others.

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According to Glide Magazine, The songs selected for Raise The Roof alternately reflect deep-rooted influences and new revelations. For his part, Robert Plant was keen to introduce the English folk traditions he has loved since adolescence, while Krauss cites hearing “Quattro (World Drifts In)” by the American group Calexico, as “the moment I knew we’d make another album.”

“We wanted it to move,” Krauss said of the album in a statement. “We brought other people in, other personalities within the band, and coming back together again in the studio brought a new intimacy to the harmonies.”

“You hear something and you go, ‘Man, listen to that song, we got to sing that song!’ It’s a vacation, really -- the perfect place to go that you least expected to find,” added Plant.

With Plant, Krauss, and Burnett’s return to the studio, a follow-up was expected long ago. However, that project was scrapped. Representatives declined to answer when the songs for the new set were recorded.

Listen to Can’t Let Go below:

-Aditi