(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Kitchen Table Kibitzing 6/18/2024: Plant and Krauss [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2024-06-18 Albert Edelfelt: Kaukola Ridge at Sunset (1890) Good evening, Kibitzers! The famous heat dome has arrived in the Boston area, and is setting up its equipment this morning as I write. It’s already 84°F, with ten degrees to go to the expected high, and there’s a “heat advisory” up. The rest of the week features an “excessive heat watch”; the predicted highs fluctuate. They were 100°F for tomorrow and Thursday for a while, and right now, they’ve backed it down to the upper 90s. The weather lady says the “feels like” temperature will be over 100, though. I’m staying inside. Meanwhile, I can’t help but notice that “POTENTIAL TROPICAL CYCLONE ONE” is sitting in the Gulf of Mexico, and is said to be moving west very slowly indeed. Since it has very large bands of heavy rain and wind, there’s potential for serious flooding, even far from whatever the center of its track might be. Sounds like it’s time for Dr. Love to move his beloved car to an upper parking deck! As a reminder, it is not even officially summer yet — that’s Thursday. And this potential tropical system didn’t march across the Atlantic as is customary — it just formed right up in its current location. That is… not a good trend. [Today’s video from Dr. Levi Cowan at Tropical Tidbits explains the system, and the map in general.] So anyway! Just the other day, I was snooping around YouTube, as one does, and I happened on some new performance clips by Led Zep vocalist Robert Plant and bluegrass star Alison Krauss. You may recall they first collaborated on the 2007 album Raising Sand, which won five Grammy awards including Album of the Year. They got together again for a much later followup, Raise the Roof, in 2021, at a time when conditions for touring weren’t great due to Covid, and after that they hadn’t worked together much in a while. Now, here they are turning up in new YouTubes this very month, playing festivals in ::waves vaguely toward Framingham:: the midwest-ish? Let’s listen to a few! Here, for example, they perform The Battle of Evermore at Cain's Ballroom in Tulsa, Oklahoma on June 2. [6:23] Here’s the Page & Plant song Please Read the Letter, which was a track on Raising Sand, at Breese Stevens Field in Madison, Wisconsin, on June 8. [6:45] Rock and Roll, in Toledo, Ohio, on June 14. [4:36] Rich Woman (also from Raising Sand), in Prior Lake, Minnesota on June 7. [4:44] In the Mood for a Melody/Matty Groves/Gallows Pole, also at Breese Stevens Field in Madison, Wisconsin, on June 8. [10:27] As a little background, here’s an NPR Tiny Desk (Home) Concert from December 2021 — the in-NPR-studio “Tiny Desk Concert” series had gone to a Covid-era remote format at that time. It didn’t HAVE to be from the performers’ home, they just couldn’t go to NPR. Plant and Krauss, having just released Raising the Roof, assembled their band at Sound Emporium studio in Nashville, where the record had been made, to perform three tracks from it: Can't Let Go, Searching For My Love, and Trouble With My Lover. Additional personnel are listed on the YouTube page. [11:30] And here is the corresponding 2021 PBS NewsHour interview segment about them. (This interested me because I nodded vigorously throughout Krauss’s comments about singing harmony — it’s all true of the a cappella form I used to sing too. It’s interesting to consider the contrast in styles.) We talked about their miraculous producer, T Bone Burnett, here at KTK back in 2020. [7:54] Before a final recent song from the pair, I thought I’d review where they came from stylistically. Robert Plant sings Whole Lotta Love with Led Zeppelin at the Royal Albert Hall, in January 1970. He is 21 years old here. Krauss will be born the following July. [6:17] Later on that same planet, the band Classified Grass competes at the 1985 Kentucky Fried Bluegrass Festival, with Alison Krauss on fiddle and vocals. Krauss is 14 years old here. The band came in 3rd. [4:30] By way of a finale, here is When the Levee Breaks, at the Ozarks Amphitheater in Camden County, Missouri, on June 4. [10:44] [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/6/18/2246914/-Kitchen-Table-Kibitzing-6-18-2024-Plant-and-Krauss?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=more_community&pm_medium=web Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/