Robert Plant and Alison Krauss: The Rolling Stone Interview

Rolling Stone Music Now

Rolling Stone

Music Commentary, Music, Music Interviews

4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Plant and Krauss on their new album, the legacy of Led Zeppelin and 'O Brother, Where Art Thou?,' surviving the '80s and much, much more, in an in-depth conversation with host Brian Hiatt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hey, I'm Brian Hyatt, and this is Rolling Stone Music Now, and I'm excited to have with me,
0:10.3	Allison Kraus and Robert Plant, who are back together.
0:16.4	There was an incredible album,
0:18.6	as you may remember, called Raising Sand in 2007.
0:22.2	They are back with an album that is at least as good. It's an absolutely
0:26.6	beautiful album called Raise the Roof and it's out November 18th. And I'm so glad to have you two with me. Thank you.
0:34.0	Thank you.
0:35.0	What a great introduction.
0:37.0	Robert, I was really struck by, I've seen you live in recent years and your voice is always strong. How do you keep it where it is because
0:45.2	especially a lot of people, your peers, sometimes they've blown their voices out by this point. Yeah, well mine does get worn out.
0:56.3	Yeah, well, mine does get worn out.
0:59.3	I've got a lot of friends who are within the same age group
1:02.1	as me who are still singing from the 60s and stuff.
1:05.6	And you know, it's just a matter of like all singers bringing it gradually, giving it some respect. And it's remarkable because if you sing regularly and more and
1:16.9	more the whole deal changes and you maintain the flexibility that you're
1:21.6	required to do the job properly.
1:23.7	Like right now, I haven't sung for a month or so, two months maybe, so we're doing some work together
1:29.9	right now and I'm having to take it steady. voice is a bit scratchy and that but it'll work
1:34.9	it'll be fine just slowly bring it back again yeah if you saw me before with the space shifters
1:41.9	or whatever it is you, that was a real telling
1:45.2	experience because there was a lot of flexibility in it. But this is even more so because
1:51.2	it requires a rigorous comprehension of melody and try to, with varying amounts of success,
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Rolling Stone, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Rolling Stone and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.