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Monday Music offers a random Robert track for your listening fulfillment.

Today’s track is live from Seattle, September 25, 2005. Skip’s Song is one of my favorites from “Dreamland”. This is the only live version I’ve heard so far and Robert and Strange Sensation give it a suitably sixties hippy vibe here. It’s a cover of a Moby Grape tune.

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Skip’s Song Skip’s Song

By now we’re all used to hearing Alison Krauss sing with Robert Plant, but you may not have heard her singing Plant before Raising Sand. In 2004, she appeared on her brother Viktor Krauss’ Far from Enough album singing “Big Log”. You’ve heard Alison mention her brother in several interviews for Raising Sand over the last year.

I’m not generally a fan of other people doing Robert’s songs unless Robert is also singing along, but I do like this version of Big Log. Alison and Viktor do a pretty close rendition of the song. Big Log is a wistful, lonesome song to begin with, but Alison’s vocals make it seem more so.

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Big Log Big Log

Monday Music offers a random Robert track for your listening edification.

Still in the Grammy state of mind, here’s another live track of the Grammy-winning “Killing the Blues”. The song was awarded the Grammy for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals at the 51st Grammy ceremony. It was also featured in JCPenney advertising. Raising Sand has won a total of six Grammys, including one last year for “Gone Gone Gone”.

This version of “Killing the Blues” was recorded on June 13, 2008 in Columbia, MD (Washington, DC).

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Killing the Blues Killing the Blues

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Monday Music offers a random Robert track for your listening excitement.

Today’s track is in honor of the 5 Grammys that Robert and Alison gathered for Raising Sand on February 8, 2009. This is Rich Woman, performed live on May 10, 2008 in Dusseldorf.

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Rich Woman Rich Woman

Robert Plant and Alison Krauss made it a clean sweep on February 8, 2009. They took home 5 Grammys–one for every category they were nominated in:

Album of the Year for Raising Sand
Pop Collaboration with Vocals for Rich Woman
Record of the Year for Please Read the Letter
Best Country Collaboration with Vocals for Killing the Blues
Best Contemporary Folk/Americana Album for Raising Sand

Add that to the Grammy already won last year for Gone Gone Gone, that’s six for Raising Sand.

These honors are well deserved. Congratulations to Robert and Alison!

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