{"id":548,"date":"2009-02-11T12:06:29","date_gmt":"2009-02-11T18:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenharness.com\/blog\/?p=548"},"modified":"2009-02-09T22:07:19","modified_gmt":"2009-02-10T04:07:19","slug":"raising-sand-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/glenharness.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/raising-sand-redux\/","title":{"rendered":"Raising Sand, Redux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well over a year ago, I <a href=\"http:\/\/glenharness.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/robert-plantalison-krauss-raising-sand\/\">wrote<\/a> about the collaboration between Robert Plant and Allison Krauss, two artists that couldn&#8217;t be more different.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;d just released a collaboration called <em>Raising Sand<\/em>. It had all the earmarks of a great project: two incredible vocalists and an incredible producer in T Bone Burnett.<\/p>\n<p>But to me, the music wasn&#8217;t up to the abilities of the vocalists. It seemed like the music just laid there and didn&#8217;t do anything.<\/p>\n<p>I guess someone somewhere liked it, at least enough folks in the Recording Academy at least. It won a total of five GRAMMYs the other night: Record Of The Year, Album Of The Year, Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals, Best Country Collaboration With Vocals, and Best Contemporary Folk\/Americana Album.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sorry, but I just don&#8217;t get it. The songs are just awful. Burnett, Plant, and Krauss could have picked much better songs. With all the talent here in Nashville, there&#8217;s really no excuse to record such lousy songs. And then to win not one but five GRAMMYs?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m here to say that this emperor has no clothes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plant and Krauss won 5 Grammys. They&#8217;re not worthy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[65,97],"class_list":["post-548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-grammy","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/glenharness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/glenharness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/glenharness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/glenharness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/glenharness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/glenharness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":550,"href":"http:\/\/glenharness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions\/550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/glenharness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/glenharness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/glenharness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}