Robert Plant and Alison Krauss kicked off their first tour collectively in additional than a decade with a reimagined tackle a Led Zeppelin traditional.
Acting on Wednesday evening in Canandaigua, New York, the 2 broke out “Rock and Roll” for the primary time collectively ― however with a very totally different association from the 1971 Zeppelin hit:
“Rock and Roll” is from Led Zeppelin’s untitled fourth album, usually merely referred to as “Led Zeppelin IV.” Previous to embarking on the tour, Plant joked he now resembles the determine on the album’s cowl:
“I’m now that man,” he mentioned on his Digging Deep podcast in April. “I choose up kindling all over the place I am going and wrap it round with a chunk of baling twine and shunt it on my again simply in case anyone’s driving by, they usually go, ‘There’s that bloke off the ‘Led Zeppelin IV’ album cowl!’”
Plant and Krauss launched their second album collectively final yr, “Elevate the Roof,” a long-awaited follow-up to 2007′s “Elevating Sand,” which took residence 5 Grammy Awards, together with Album of the 12 months.
Right here’s how Plant dealt with the track in live performance almost half a century in the past with Zeppelin:
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