Hey, speaking of bluegrass… when Led Zeppelin founder Robert Plant teamed up with Nashville mama Allison Krauss, critics compared the musical collaboration to a hookup between King Kong and Bambi. But their album “Raising Sand,” produced by T-Bone Burnett, earned the odd duo widespread raves. Boing Boing tv‘s London music correspondent Russell Porter caught up with Plant and Krauss backstage at the Mercury Prize, an annual award for the best album from the UK or Ireland.
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