According to Nashville's
NBC affiliate
WSMV-TV,
LED ZEPPELIN frontman
Robert Plant and bluegrass star
Alison Krauss will perform at the
Bonnaroo festival in Manchester, Tennessee next June to promote their collaborative CD,
"Raising Sand". In addition to the
"Raising Sand" material, they'll perform songs from their catalogs — including
LED ZEPPELIN's
"When the Levee Breaks" and
"Black Dog".
Plant has told
Rolling Stone magazine that he plans to hit the road in early 2008 with
Krauss.
A disc of tender, mostly acoustic duets,
"Raising Sand" — which was produced by
T Bone Burnett — debuted at No. 2 n The Billboard 200 chart in late October, becoming an unexpected hit.
"Raising Sand" includes versions of the
EVERLY BROTHERS'
"Gone, Gone, Gone (Done Moved On)",
TOM WAITS and
KATHLEEN BRENNAN's
"Trampled Rose" and
"Please Read the Letter", first released on the 1998
PLANT/
JIMMY PAGE album
"Walking Into Clarksdale".
According to
Billboard.com,
Plant and
Krauss first performed together in 2004 at a
Leadbelly tribute at the
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, but it took several years before they found time to team up in the studio with
Burnett in Nashville and Los Angeles.
Tennessean.com reported that
Plant and
Krauss taped an episode of
"CMT Crossroads" in October at The Mill at Lebanon in Tennessee that will air at a later date.
Plant and
Krauss were interviewed on
BBC's
"Breakfast" show on October 31 about
"Raising Sand" CD. Watch the nine-minute segment below.