Robert Plant & Alison KraussRaising Sand

Led Zeppelin's howler and a bluegrass virtuoso, an unlikely pairing held together by T Bone Burnett's vision. His production is dry, subterranean, and dreamy, Krauss's honey-sweet soprano set against Plant's restrained tenor. "Killing the Blues" drifts by on ghostly close harmony that raises the hair on your neck. He picked all thirteen songs himself, from the Everly Brothers to Tom Waits. Five Grammys including Album of the Year. Hauntingly moody and wholly new. Sink into it.