Alison Krauss Speaks to Rolling Stone

Last month, Robert Plant told Rolling Stone Magazine that a second album with Alison Krauss had been planned but, “The sound wasn’t there.”

He was referring to sessions on the follow up to their Grammy winning album, Raising Sand. Plant went on to record Band of Joy instead of continuing with the Krauss collaboration. Alison Krauss returned to her band, Union Station, and recorded their sixth studio album.

In a piece in Rolling Stone this week, Krauss agreed with Plant that the sound wasn’t there. However, she wants to be clear that’s not the fault of the  musicians they were working with:

I don’t want to make it sound like we’re saying that someone else’s performance wasn’t there -  the band was fantastic, the same as the first record.

They traded compliments in their Rolling Stone stories as well, Plant saying:

Alison’s the best. She’s one of my favourite people.

Krauss is more backhanded in her return compliment:

He’s a delightful person, and I’ll never meet another like him.

Krauss’ new album, Paper Airplane is available April 12th. It is their first album since 2004’s Lonely Runs Both Ways.

Alison Krauss Follows Up Rasing Sand

In 2009, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss returned to the studio to record the follow up to their Grammy winning album, Raising Sand. "The sound just wasn't there," Plant told Rolling Stone about those sessions.

Plant then called on the guitarist on the Raising Sand tour, Buddy Miller, who told Plant, "go back to Alison." They collaborated on Plant's new album, Band of Joy instead while Krauss turned back to her old band, Union Station.

Alison Krauss and Union Station's new album, Paper Airplane, will be released April 12th. It is her first album since Raising Sand was released in 2007, and her first with Union Station since 2004's Lonely Runs Both Ways.




Track list for Paper Airplane:

• Paper Airplane


• Dustbowl Children


• Lie Awake


• Lay My Burden Down


• My Love Follows You Where You Go


• Dimming Of The Day


• On The Outside Looking In


• Miles To Go


• Sinking Stone


• Bonita and Bill Butler