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

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!

Robert and Alison came away with five Grammy nominations this year, all well deserved. While Robert hasn’t historically paid that much attention to awards and kudos like this, I’m glad to see the project actually getting the recognition it deserves from the Grammy organization. And keep in mind they’ve already won a grammy for Gone Gone Gone, which made the cut in time to be nominated last year.

While the pundits say wins are assured for Robert and Alison because of their status as legend and Grammy favorite respectively, I think the wins would be well deserved on the basis of the records alone. Even if Grammy voters like to “play it safe”, this time they have a fantastic record to cling to.

May the best man win (and of course, the best man is Robert).