You're listening to Song Exploder, where musicians take apart their songs and piece by piece, tell the story of how they were made.

I'm Rishikesh Herway.

This week I want to introduce you to another podcast that I make called Partners.

It's a show about partnerships that was born out of Song Exploder.

Over the years I've made a bunch of episodes with bandmates or with co-writers or an artist and a producer who work together really closely.

All these stories where the song was a result of a really special collaboration.

And I was always fascinated by the origins of those relationships.

When you hear those stories, it becomes clear that what these people made together is something that reflects not just each of them individually,

but this other unique entity that only exists where the two of them fit together.

And I wanted to make a podcast that was entirely about that idea.

Also, I feel like all successful long-term partnerships can sort of be thought of as love stories, because they're a matter of luck and being in the right place, the right time,

but also work and patience and some ineffable magic spark.

So all of that is what Partners is about.

The first season came out in 2020 and the second season just began last week.

You can subscribe to the show at partners.show or wherever you get your podcasts, etc., etc.

But I also just want to play you this episode from season two.

It features two music greats, Robert Plant and Allison Kraus, who have made two incredible albums together. I hope you like it.

We were on the road and they would throw a new song in.

Last second, there are enough elements on my end that I felt could go wrong and then they'd want to throw a new song in there.

Oh, you guys can we just, you know.

Yeah, that very thing was the thing that used to make me go, what's wrong with this woman?

My name is Allison Kraus.

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