Robert Plant and Alison Krauss: A Fine Mist

Plant Talks About Led Zeppelin's "Stairway" and the State of Radio in a 1993 Interview

The human voice is the most beautiful instrument. It has been ever since the first Cavewoman came out after the first terrifying, moonless night, and broke out singing "Oh what a beautiful morning, oh what a beautiful day," overjoyed that the sun had returned. When the frightened Caveman finally crept out of the cave and went to work banging rocks, the Cavewoman said, "the least you can do is bang either 4/4 or hit it on 'the one.' "

Then two voices came together and it sounded better than ever. One plus one equals two, and as Marvin Gaye and Kim Weston told us, "It Takes Two." But Robert Plant and Alison Krauss came together with Raising Sand in 2007, and one plus one equalled three. Raising Sand won Album of the Year and four other Grammy awards. Plant (hard rock, Celtic mysticism) and Krauss (American bluegrass, folk), have voices so far beyond harmony they create a third, singular voice. Their producer, T Bone Burnett, recently said much the same thing to Jon Pareles in the New Yor…