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Raise the Roof was produced by T-Bone Burnett (who also worked on Raising Sand), and it primarily finds Plant and Krauss covering songs by artists like Merle Haggard, Allen Toussaint, the Everly Brothers, and Bert Jansch, although it does feature one original, “High and Lonesome. Just Sampha, a piano and three heart-wrenching songs that seem to double as coping mechanisms.

The album comes 13 years after their surprise 2007 hit, Raising Sand, which went on to win five Grammys, including Album of the Year. A Tiny Desk Concert as intimate as it gets (that's saying something). Plant and Krauss’ collaborative album, Raise the Roof, arrived Nov. The young Juilliard graduate is racking up debuts with the worlds most important orchestras, he just pocketed the 25,000 Avery Fisher Career Grant and he can boast none other than violin legend Itzhak Perlman as his mentor. Complete with strings, horns and musical direction from Tiny Desk alum Matthew Burnett (whose credits also include Daniel Caesar 's Tiny Desk), Reyez deftly danced between tracks with the. Violinist Randall Goosby has arrived and not just at the Tiny Desk.

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In the clip, the duo is joined by several musicians, including guitarist JD McPherson. Janu In celebration of her stunning debut album, Three Dimensions Deep, the singer-songwriter and producer plays a deeply intimate Tiny Desk home concert. Inviting NPR to his home studio, FKJ, short for French Kiwi Juice, performs a dreamy one-man Tiny Desk Concert, offering viewers a look into the making of select songs. Jessie Reyez's legendary layers vocal dynamism, cross-genre playfulness, unapologetic realness were on full display at her El Tiny concert.

The set includes a rendition of “Can’t Let Go,” originally recorded by Lucinda Williams, a cover of Bobby Moore & the Rhythm Aces’ “Searching for My Love,” and “Trouble With My Lover,” written by Allen Toussaint and recorded in the Sixties by Betty Harris. The pair filmed the concert at Sound Emporium, the studio where they recorded their new album, Raise the Roof. Robert Plant and Alison Krauss joined forces for NPR’s Tiny Desk (Home) Concert series, performing three songs. The experience led me to an idea: I figured it would be cool to piece together a quick little ranking of my top 10 Tiny Desk concerts that you need to listen or re-listen to (Usher is in there).

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