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Article: Robert Plant: The Led Zeppelin singer looks forward to coming back ; Ahead of the Led Zeppelin reunion, singer Robert Plant has scored an unlikely hit album with the bluegrass superstar Alison Krauss. They tell Andy Gill how it happened
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- Belfast Telegraph
- Article date:
- November 14, 2007
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It has secured Plant his highest chart placing since his Led
Zeppelin days, entering the US album chart at No2. This is,
meanwhile, an unprecedented position for Krauss, whose recordings
with her bluegrass band Union Station rely on the core country
audience for their gold and platinum discs.
It's a curious alliance, Plant being well-known for his interests
in rock, blues, psychedelia, folk-rock and North African music, but
never previously exhibiting much of a fascination with country and
bluegrass. How on Earth did they meet?
"I saw her picture in the back of Village Voice and phoned up..."
deadpans Plant.
"This isn't gonna be good!" interjects Krauss, smiling
indulgently from inside a ...