The Music Pages | March 2008


	Cat. No.: 478 0199 Barcode: 0028947801993 Label: Decca CD Release Date: Avail now			ROBERT PLANT & ALISON KRAUSS \| Raising Sand ARTISTS Robert Plant Alison Krauss TRACK LISTING 1. Rich Woman (Dorothy LaBostrie-McKinley Millet) 2. Killing the Blues (Rowland Salley) 3. Sister Rosetta Goes Before Us (Sam Phillips) 4. Polly Come Home (Gene Clark) 5. Gone, Gone, Gone (Done Moved On) (Phil and Don Everly) 6. Through the Morning, Through the Night (Gene Clark) 7. Please Read The Letter (Robert Plant-Michael Lee-Jimmy Page-Charlie Jones) 8. Trampled Rose (Tom Waits-Kathleen Brennan) 9. Fortune Teller (Naomi Neville) 10. Stick With Me Baby (Mel Tillis) 11. Nothin' (Townes Van Zandt) 12. Let Your Loss Be Your Lesson (Milt Campbell) 13. Your Long Journey (A.D. Watson and Rosa Lee Watson) GRAMMY ® AWARD WINNER! BEST POP COLLABORATION WITH VOCALS for Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On) Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, two of the most distinctive vocalists in modern music, recently put the finishing touches on Raising Sand - their astonishing new collaborative album. The album was produced by T Bone Burnett and recorded in Nashville and Los Angeles with a stellar cast of supporting musicians, including guitarists Marc Ribot and Norman Blake, multi-instrumentalist Mike Seeger, drummer Jay Bellerose, and bassist Dennis Crouch. Plant is quick to define Raising Sand as more a band record than a duet record, as it puts the two great singers in a variety of vocal and instrumental combinations - from songs featuring two-part brother-style harmony throughout to solo features for each. Though they come from entirely different traditions, Alison Krauss and Robert Plant create an amazing, unexpected, and entirely new sound when they sing together. The songs range from modern to classic, consisting mostly of lesser-known material from a wide spectrum of great blues, R&B, country, and folk songwriters - Tom Waits, Gene Clark, Little Milton Campbell, Mel Tillis, Townes Van Zandt, Doc Watson, Phil and Don Everly among them. RETURN TO THE TOP

	Cat. No.: 723 0277 Barcode: 0888072302778 Label: Concord CD Release Date: 15 March			RANDY JACKSON \| Randy Jackson’s Music Club ARTISTS Randy Jackson TRACK LISTING Dance Like There's No Tomorrow - featuring Paula Abdul Something To Believe In - featuring Jason Mraz, Van Hunt & Jon McLaughlin What Am I So Afraid Of - featuring Keke Wyatt, Trisha Covington & Kylie Dean Just Walk On By - featuring Joss Stone & Three 6 Mafia Home - featuring John Rich, Anthony Hamilton & Sara Watkins Wang Dang Doodle - featuring Sam Moore, Keb' Mo' & Angie Stone Like A - featuring Crunk Squad Who's Gonna Love You Now - featuring Kelli Selah My R&B - featuring Barbi Esco Real Love - featuring Katherine McPhee & Elliott Yamin Willing To Try - featuring Richie Sambora, Travis Tritt & Lucy Woodward I Understand - featuring Bebe Winans, Kim Burrell, Rance Allen, Mariah Carey & Hezekiah Walker & The Love Fellowship Tabernacle Church Choir Grammy-winning producer, virtuoso musician, hit songwriter, legendary A&R executive and, of course, lovable American Idol judge – Randy Jackson has called upon every aspect of his staggering career to produce Randy Jackson’s Music Club, Vol. 1, his first solo album, released through the Concord Music Group. The album includes a stellar ensemble of artists and features the return of fellow Idol judge Paula Abdul who’s track “Dance Like There’s No Tomorrow” is her first release of new music in over a decade. Other guests on the album include Idol standouts Katherine McPhee and Elliot Yamin, U.K. phenom Joss Stone, country trailblazer Travis Tritt, pop-rock hitmaker Jason Mraz, ace country songwriter-producer John Rich (of Big & Rich), R&B luminary Sam Moore and Bon Jovi guitarist-harmonizer Richie Sambora. Randy also works once more with the incredible Mariah Carey who guests on the gospel track “Understand” along with Bebe Winans and Hezekiah Walker, Kim Burrell & Rance Allen. The collection also features major up and coming talent such as the wonderful Barbie Esco on the track “My R&B” and Kelli Selah on “Who’s Gonna Love You Now” among many others. With the release of Randy Jackson’s Music Club, Vol. 1, Jackson has created a record he likens to “listening to a great radio station,” albeit one that kicks down the walls of conventional formatting. Touching on R&B, pop, country, blues, hip-hop, rock, jazz, fusion, gospel and more, Jackson – who produced all the tracks, demonstrates his facility with virtually every modern musical style. “I didn’t want to make it all one genre, because that’s not who I am,” Jackson insists. “There’s something here for every listener.” “I’m really pleased that a bunch of wonderful, talented people showed up,” Jackson said of his experience producing Randy Jackson’s Music Club, Vol. 1. “I’m really blessed by the way it all came together.” RETURN TO THE TOP

	Cat. No.: 723 0455 Barcode: 0888072304550 Label: Fantasy/Concord CD Release Date: Available Now			TIFT MERRITT \| Another Country ARTISTS Tift Merritt TRACK LISTING Something To Me Broken Another Country Hopes Too High Morning Is My Destination - Keep You Happy I Know What I'm Looking For Now Tell Me Something True My Heart Is Free Tender Branch Mille Tendresses After two records and a Grammy nomination, Tift Merritt took hiatus with a piano in Paris and was rewarded with an unbridled inspiration and a wealth of her most accomplished songs to date. On February 26, Concord Music Group’s Fantasy Records will release Merritt’s Another Country. After intensive touring, Merritt erased her grueling schedule and rented a flat with a piano in Paris’s 10th arrondisment planning to take time off. Merritt recalls, “Days were wonderful there. I wore the same clothes nearly everyday. I would take a coffee in the street, say hello to the good people in the little wine store across from my door,” she writes. “I cannot explain what happened except to say that there were never enough hours in the day to write, and there was always kindness at hand. I took pictures. I wrote stories. I played piano. I wrote songs.” These songs together comprise Merritt’s third recording Another Country. Merritt describes the writing as a plainspoken look at the distance we all attempt to cross: between two people, between one heart and the rest of the world. Another Country was written by Tift Merritt, produced by George Drakoulias, and recorded by David Bianco. The players include guitarists Charlie Sexton and Doug Pettibone and Tift’s longtime band, Zeke Hutchins (drums), Jay Brown (bass) and Danny Eisenberg (keyboards). A writer, singer and sometime photographer Tift Merritt is a North Carolina native who lives in New York City and longs for Paris. RETURN TO THE TOP