The new track is a follow up after a lead single “Can’t Let Go” released back in August and it’s the only original track on the upcoming LP. “High And Lonesome” following the vibe of the award-winning album Raising Sand from 2007. Raising Sand has won six Grammys, including Album and Record of the Year and reached No 2 on UK Album Chart.

You can listen to the song below.

Krauss and Plant have been named by USA Today as  “one of the most critically adored odd couples of music”. NPR Music added: “This feels like a warm welcome back from two old friends you haven’t seen in a long time,” and their voices “still fit together like a pair of dusty boots nestled atop a welcome mat“.

The forthcoming album has been recorded at Nashville’s Sound Emporium Studios at the end of 2019. Kraus commented on the collaboration: “When we started, Robert had said that if it didn’t work, we’ll try it for three days and say goodbye”. “Robert’s singing is the epitome of freedom and spontaneity,” she added. “And I’m pretty regimented, but there’s a romance in contrast”.

“One of my favourite parts of this is the songs and songwriters that I had never heard of. Working with Robert, and with T Bone, is always a great education in musical history” she continues. Plant’s rock background and Krauss’ country background works magic and is definitely an advantage. Both musicians took their collaboration to a new level and finish working on the album just a few weeks before lockdown. 

“I thought I’d got America down, but here was this whole world of country music I’d not encountered,” he said. “That’s the great thing about me and Alison – we’re ably supported by a world of beautiful music that one of other of us doesn’t know too much about”.

“For the two of us, nothing was written in blood. We were ready to do something new and previously knew how good it was, so join us again. You can see where you are going. You have nothing to lose” – added Plant.

The new release is out on 19th November and can be pre-ordered here.

Robert Plant said about the album: “It’s such a far cry from everything I’ve done before“. “I love the whole kaleidoscope of music that I’ve explored, but this is a place where you can think within the song, you can decide how to bring home an emotion. It’s another blend that we’ve got, and long may we have more of them“.

Raise The Roof tracklisting is as follows:

01. Quattro (World Drifts In)
02. The Price Of Love
03. Go Your Way
04. Trouble With My Lover
05. Searching for My Love
06. Can’t Let Go
07. It Don’t Bother Me
08. You Led Me To The Wrong
09. Last Kind Words Blues
10. High And Lonesome
11. Going Where the Lonely Go
12. Somebody Was Watching Over Me

“Finally the doors are open and after 14 years here’s a sequel to Raising Sand. Full of interesting curves and great musicality in the company of great musicians, we “Raise the Roof”. Listen to our first single from the record “Can’t Let Go”, out now!” the musician shared on social media.

Finally the doors are open and after 14 years here’s a sequel to Raising Sand. Full of interesting curves and great musicality in the company of great musicians, we “Raise the Roof”. Listen to our first single from the record “Can’t Let Go”, out now!https://t.co/gsRxjvTEnd pic.twitter.com/9HCqJv5Po1

— Robert Plant (@RobertPlant) August 12, 2021

In a recent interview with MOJO, he commented about the release and working with Krauss again: “The good thing about Alison and I is that we’re a couple of kindred spirits”.

He also commented about heritage bands: “Most musicians form a band, then they stay in the band until it’s over – 20 years, 30 years, 50 years, whatever it is – and it starts to look sadly decrepit. It’s like people hanging onto a life raft, or staying in a comfortable place.” He didn’t want to stay in the group for decades and decided to move forward making his music. 

“For the two of us, nothing was written in blood. We were ready to do something new and previously knew how good it was, so join us again. You can see where you are going. You have nothing to lose” Plant commented on working with Krauss. Raise The Roof is the pair second release and is due on November 19th. You can pre-order the album here.

Led Zeppelin split up in 1980 after drummer John ‘Bonzo’ Bonham died. Since then, the band reunited on several occasions, but only for one-off gigs. The latest one had happened in 2007 in London as a tribute to Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegun.

Asked about another reunion, Plant commented: “We’re 41 years into it now. It’s a very charming question, and it comes in all languages! but the conversation doesn’t really go now, because that spaceship has [departed].“

Commenting about the album Raising Sand he added: “It’s a miracle, this album. It’s as old as it is new – a couple of people at a certain time in their lives, doing something that neither of them expected. It’s clean”.

“There’s no going back, no going forward, it’s just, ‘This is it, today!’ that’s such a relief for me, and for Alison, too” Robert Pant added at the end.