Robert Plant says he’d like to do one other album with Alison Krauss, after their first collaboration since 2007 was nominated for 3 Grammy awards. “I can not see any purpose why not,” the previous Led Zeppelin frontman tells Billboard.
He simply cannot afford a lot time between initiatives. “I suppose if we wait one other 14 years it could possibly be a bit dicey for me, to be trustworthy,” Plant added. “I would discover it just a little bit troublesome hitting a prime C – however we will say it actually works nicely, and we take pleasure in one another and that is an incredible factor, so it looks like an incredible concept.”
Increase the Roof turned their second consecutive High 5 smash, following the platinum-selling Elevating Sand. The 2021 LP has now earned a trio of Grammy nods, together with greatest Americana album, greatest American roots tune (“Excessive and Lonesome”) and – maybe most curiously – for greatest nation duo/group efficiency (“Going The place the Lonely Go”).
“The thought of us being thought of to be a rustic duet is fascinating,” Plant now admits. “The factor is, a nomination is a nomination — the actual fact that it’s been acknowledged that we’ve had fun is greater than I might think about. I didn’t get many Grammys, so to be nominated as a rustic duet is out of my regular radar. It’s nice.”
Plant really has eight wins, amid a string of 18 nominations that goes again to 1969 when Led Zeppelin misplaced the most effective new artist competitors to Crosby, Stills and Nash. In the meantime, Krauss’ 27 wins and 44 nominations make her the second-most-recognized lady in Grammys historical past, after Beyonce.
Elevating Sand earned the deeply related duo an album of the 12 months trophy on the Grammys. This 12 months, the identical class will characteristic Lizzo and Coldplay, amongst others. Plant is blunt about his connection to those modern-era stars (“not lots,” he admits with fun), whereas nonetheless stressing the universality of the artwork that all of them create.
“It’s totally different worlds, isn’t it? That’s all it’s,” he stated. “It’s similar to, do you want this, or do you solely admire stuff that come out of the Mississippi Delta or New Orleans? We’re all musicians; all of us do what we do. It’s important to admire every little thing from the place it stands in its personal world.”
Led Zeppelin Solo Albums Ranked
There have been vainness initiatives, bizarre detours and big disappointments – but additionally among the greatest LPs of the succeeding eras.
Why Led Zeppelin Gained’t Reunite Once more
