Did any one else feel like the latter part of the Academy Awards broadcast was sponsored by Alison Krauss and Robert Plant? As the show wound down, I spent so much time wondering how much money was spent licensing the track that I forgot who the sponsor actually was.
So much has been made of Screamin' Robert's miraculous transition to country crooner that you have to wonder if anyone remembers the many ballads in the Led Zep catalogue, and his Honeydrippers projects. But the music on Raising Sand is only country if Chris Isaak is country. In fact, today's earworm, Mel Tillis' "Stick With Me Baby", would sound right at home on Chris' "San Francisco Days" album.
There's a lot of quiet co-conspirator cooing and confirmation against a world that says they'll never last. And it's lovely. But country, it's not.
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