Plant/Krauss
Mrs. PK and I spent an incredible evening last night getting to hear live interpretations of the Raising Sand album, along with a lot of very interesting surprises. A full day of rain cleared off in time for very pleasant weather for the show.I was impressed with how well Plant subjugated himself (at times) to Krauss and the band as a whole. There were a few songs where he simply faded into the shadows to sing harmony for Alison, and a couple where he just stood off to the side and grooved while he shook maracas. The high point of this was when Krauss did "Down to the River to Pray" (which she did with EmmyLou Harris on the "O Brother Where Art Thou" soundtrack), with no accompaniment other than Plant and a couple of the band members on harmony. They drew out some interesting nuggets outside of what was done on the album. Highlights were Ray Charles' "Leave My Woman Alone", Plant's "In the Mood", along with a really spooky banjo-driven "Black Dog", a nice back-porch version of "Black Mountain Woman", and an incredible, jaw-dropping, mind-blowing, spine-tingling version of "Battle of Evermore" that came right after a transcendent version of Townes Van Zandt's "Nothing". The live version of "Nothing" blew the album version out of the water and it's got me searching for any and all TVZ stuff I might have picked up over the years. Those two songs were the centerpiece of the show and to me really demonstrated how deeply this band dove into the essence of all of these songs. All the songs from the album were done except for "Stick With Me Baby", "Let Your Loss Be Your Lesson", and "Polly Come Home", which seemed like decent omissions given what was performed instead. TBone did "Laissez les Bons Temps Rouler" in the middle of the set, and my only disappointment was that he didn't have/take more of a chance to step up front.If anyone is even thinking of attending any of their remaining dates, I would give you every encouragement to go. I'd go again and pay scalper prices if I had to, it was that good and that mind-blowing at times.As as side note, I saw Tom Petty for the first time on Wednesday night. The band blew the roof off of the place and outside of Springsteen I've never seen a crowd as enthusiastic. Steve Winwood opened and came back out with Petty & the boys to play "Can't Find My Way Home" and "Gimme Some Lovin'". Campbell blew the solo on "Runnin' Down a Dream", but other than that the band was rock solid and appeared to be having a great time.
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Mrs. PK and I spent an incredible evening last night getting to hear live interpretations of the Raising Sand album, along with a lot of very interesting surprises. A full day of rain cleared off in time for very pleasant weather for the show.I was impressed with how well Plant subjugated himself (at times) to Krauss and the band as a whole. There were a few songs where he simply faded into the shadows to sing harmony for Alison, and a couple where he just stood off to the side and grooved while he shook maracas. The high point of this was when Krauss did "Down to the River to Pray" (which she did with EmmyLou Harris on the "O Brother Where Art Thou" soundtrack), with no accompaniment other than Plant and a couple of the band members on harmony. They drew out some interesting nuggets outside of what was done on the album. Highlights were Ray Charles' "Leave My Woman Alone", Plant's "In the Mood", along with a really spooky banjo-driven "Black Dog", a nice back-porch version of "Black Mountain Woman", and an incredible, jaw-dropping, mind-blowing, spine-tingling version of "Battle of Evermore" that came right after a transcendent version of Townes Van Zandt's "Nothing". The live version of "Nothing" blew the album version out of the water and it's got me searching for any and all TVZ stuff I might have picked up over the years. Those two songs were the centerpiece of the show and to me really demonstrated how deeply this band dove into the essence of all of these songs. All the songs from the album were done except for "Stick With Me Baby", "Let Your Loss Be Your Lesson", and "Polly Come Home", which seemed like decent omissions given what was performed instead. TBone did "Laissez les Bons Temps Rouler" in the middle of the set, and my only disappointment was that he didn't have/take more of a chance to step up front.If anyone is even thinking of attending any of their remaining dates, I would give you every encouragement to go. I'd go again and pay scalper prices if I had to, it was that good and that mind-blowing at times.As as side note, I saw Tom Petty for the first time on Wednesday night. The band blew the roof off of the place and outside of Springsteen I've never seen a crowd as enthusiastic. Steve Winwood opened and came back out with Petty & the boys to play "Can't Find My Way Home" and "Gimme Some Lovin'". Campbell blew the solo on "Runnin' Down a Dream", but other than that the band was rock solid and appeared to be having a great time.
