Concert review: Robert Plant and Alison Krauss an absolute delight at first of two sold-out Vancouver shows
Arena rock legend Robert Plant and star bluegrass artist Alison Krauss make great music together
It hasn’t really been a long time since Robert Plant rock n’ rolled. On the first of two back-to-back sold-out Queen Elizabeth Theatre shows with Alison Krauss, one of contemporary music’s odder pairings frequently cut loose.
With that cast of creative geniuses providing the groove, the 75-year-old British vocalist and 53-year-old American singer and fiddler flow together to turn everything from Benny Spellman’s upbeat Fortune Teller and Randy Weeks’ chestnut Can’t Let Go and even Plant’s solo-era career hit In the Mood into something new and often exciting. While Plant can still bellow, he is most comfortable keeping to his more expressive lower register — think Thank You or In My Time of Dying — than those signature banshee shrieks.
