Weekend Song – Robert Plant/Alison Krauss

Here’s a great new ballad that sounds like a classic. It’s like an old George Jones tune, or with a bit of drive could have been written by Hoagy Carmichael. Instead it was written by Chris Issak’s bass guitarist Roly Salley for his own 2005 album.

It ended up on the 2007 collaborative LP by Alison Krauss and Robert Plant. It’s got a great opening line, extracted here and a chorus that’s so beautiful that it to put it here feels like something approaching desecration.

Alison Krauss said of this: “When you combine a melody that lifts you up with a lyric like that, it’s a twisted thing. When you get that combination, that is really something.”

Enjoy.

Leaves were falling, just like embers, in colors red and gold,
they set us on fire burning just like moonbeams in our eyes.

Listen: Killing The Blues

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