Bluegrass Community Rejects Robert Plant!

["Lee McCauslin" <lee.mccauslin@xxxxxxxxx>]

Well, that would be the headline if I were working for a gossip rag or
Fox News.  The actuality is far more benign and limited to one guy,
not the entire community.

(Cliff notes at bottom.)

So I'm driving home from Ft Myers to Orlando yesterday (I had been
sent down there for an emergancy at a branch so I had to drive 3 hours
to do 30 minutes worth of fixin' and drive back).  Anyway, there's a
whole lotta nothin' between there and here and it was in the evening
so I was flipping around the dial to see what was out there and
stumbled across what I believe to be a public radio station hosting a
bluegrass show.  I heard a few nicely done songs with a lot of picking
and grinning and then the host of the show came on to tell me who I
had been listening to (an aside - one band was called Constant Change
and they were great - I will look up their albums).

So the host announces that later in the show he will be giving away a
copy of a new album.  And even though he had said nothing at all up to
that point that would indicate it, I just knew it was gonna be Raising
Sand.  I was right.  He said to stay tuned for a copy of Alison Kraus
and Robert Plant's album "Rising Sand" - here his co-host corrected
him and said he believed it was "Raising Sand" and added "Robert
Plant.  He's somebody, right?" (I think it was said tongue in
cheekly).  The host said "yes, "Raising..." and then went on to say
(paraphrasing) "The title of this album says Robert Plant and Alison
Kraus but I refuse to refer to it that way - to me it's Alison and
Robert..." and that just struck me as kind of funny.  He said he had
known her since she was a little girl and also mentioned that Robert
had had some success with a previous band.  I am pretty sure he and
his cohost were just joking around but not 100% sure.  At any rate, I
drove out of their signal before he everplayed the Raising Sand song
that would initiate the give-away (one would have to have given him
the song title and Alison's age after her recent birthday to win).  It
just tickled me that the bluegrass host thought of the album as
Alison's with Robert "helping".  Heck, for all I know he may be right
- I don't know who wrote or arranged it and I've only heard a very
little bit of it.

cliff notes:
Driving home late last night
Suddenly I got a fright
no, wait that's a different band...
Bluegrass show host says Raising Sand is Alison's album with Plant
helping and refused to refer to it any other way.
Heard Constant Change bluegrass band and was impressed.