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CERTIFIED CHRISTIAN Together Christian.com Search the Reader APARTMENTS HOUSES/CONDOS JOBS MATCHES CLASSIFIEDS Meet Christian Singles in Your City Thousands of Christian Singles + † Profile Safe Christian Community Christians Join For FREE Chicago Reader STRAIGHT DOPE HOT TYPE SAVAGE LOVE BLOGS together Christian Reader Info Advertising, subscriptions, staff, privacy policy, contact info, freelancers guidelines, etc. CHICAGO DINKS I Saw You Polish refresher course needed Of all the days, Friday the 13th Riding and playing game on the cell phone to pass the Digg this. The List June 19, 2008 Wednesday18 Post to del.icio.us Robert Plant & Alison Krauss Thursday 19 Gilberto Gil Miquel Gil The Hood Internet Mucca Pazza Friday 20 Aceyalone Black Angels Crookers Meatmen Cowillie Nelson Saturday 21 Helena Espvall & Masaki Batoh Jean-Philippe Gross Csimply Saucer E-mail this to a friend Sunday22 C Aluminum Group Thalia Zedek Tuesday 24 Eef Barzelay Partyshank CLiz Phair Shearwater Feedback - Ads by Google CHICAGO DLINKS wednesday 18 CROBERT PLANT & ALISON KRAUSS On last year's wonderful Raising Sand (Rounder), Robert Plant and Alison Krauss proved themselves an exception to the rule about collaborations between strong personalities-instead of a clumsy pastiche, they made a genuinely new sound. Producer T Bone Burnett pushed both singers out of their comfort zones: the classic-rock front man delves into American country and folk, and the angel-voiced bluegrass fiddler explores the earthiness of the blues. Plant and Krauss crisscross the map of Americana, from the Townes Van Zandt tune "Nothin' to Little Milton's soul-blues classic "Let Your Loss Be Your Lesson." Their voices mesh beautifully-Plant exercises surprising restraint and turns in some downright gorgeous performances, while Krauss finds a sensual ache missing from her bluegrass work. The heartbreak in the songs also gets crucial support from the haunting arrangements: the drums create a smoky background pulse rather than a series of needling impacts, and the guitar, pedal steel, fiddle, and banjo weave a gauzy veil that's pierced by meticulously registered solos. Burnett leads the superb road band, which also includes guitarist Buddy Miller, double bassist Dennis Crouch, drummer Jay Bellerose, and Stuart Duncan on mandolin, banjo, and fiddle; expect a few radically retooled Zeppelin FREE TIX Things about me: Transplant from Michigan Lover of: photography, summer time BBQs, Chicken Salsa, inventory...