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JD McPherson | OurVinyl Sessions

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So good!

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JD McPherson - "Sunshine Getaway"

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Halloween 2014

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Robert Plant and Alison Krauss at Rose Music Center at the Heights, Huber Heights, Ohio, May 3, 2023

Emerging from opposite sides of the stage without introduction, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss clasped hands when they met in the middle and launched into “Rich Woman.”

It was the first of 17 selections from 2007’s Raising Sand and 2021’s Raise the Roof - plus a few smartly reimagined Led Zeppelin numbers - the pair played May 3 in opening the summer concert season at Rose Music Center at the Heights in Huber Heights, Ohio. But the first night of proverbial summer was “really fucking cold,” as Plant, in layers with hand warmers in his pockets, put it while Krauss stood beside him with her hands pulled into the sleeves of her heavy winter coat.

“Welcome to Norway,” the maracas-playing Plant said to the sold-out house that remained standing throughout the 90-minute, low-ember-glow of a performance.

Stoking the warm aural flame were drummer Jay Bellerose, who employed mallets, sticks, shakers and tambourine on his kit; double bassist Dennis Crouch; multi-instrumentalists Viktor Krauss (Alison’s brother) on guitar and piano and Stuart Duncan on guitar, mandolin and violin; and guitarist JD McPherson. The latter pulled double duty, opening the gig with a self-described “quick, efficient, (3)0-minute rock ‘n’ roll set” that mixed originals and such covers as Iggy Pop’s “Lust for Life” into a blend of 1950s rockabilly with sax and 1970s, guitar-based rock.

Plant and Krauss went back further, setting songs like “Fortune Teller,” “Please Read the Letter” and “Gone Gone Gone” in hazy, swirling arrangements that evoked misty sounds of bygone eras that wafted through vintage amps. The stage, with lighting and beige and white curtains to give the outdoor shed the ambiance of an indoor theater, bolstered the aural illusion.

Long reluctant to revisit his past, Plant transformed “Rock and Roll” into a country rocker built upon Duncan’s violin. He and Krauss would play twin lines on a dark, moody version of “When the Levee Breaks.” Its bright, sonic anthesis, the slowed-by-half “The Battle of Evermore,” sparkled on Duncan’s mandolin as Krauss subbed in for Sandy Denny on vocals.

Singing gently and passionately, Plant and Krauss wavered out of perfect key only occasionally, the former likely owing to his 74 years and the latter - who ceded all banter to her partner - fighting against the cold air and adjusting her earpiece.

Slightly less than flawless is nevertheless a Herculean achievement - particularly given the unseasonable temperatures and the newness of this leg of the Raising the Roof tour.

Grade card: Robert Plant and Alison Krauss at Rose Music Center at the Heights - 5/3/23 - A

5/4/23

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JD McPherson - Head Over Heels (2015) JD McPherson from: "Let the Good Times Roll" (LP|CD)

Roots Music | Rock and Roll

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Album Personnel: JD McPherson: Lead Vocals / Guitar Raynier Jacob Jacildo: Keyboards / Backing Vocals Doug Corcoran: Saxophone / Organ / Steel Guitar / Backing Vocals Jimmy Sutton: Acoustic Bass / Electric Bass / Backing Vocals Jason Smay: Drums / Backing Vocals

Mark Neill: Guitar / Keyboards / Backing Vocals

Produced by JD McPherson | Mark Neill

Recorded: @ The Soil of The South Studios in Valdosta, Georgia USA 2015

Additionally 3CG Studios in Tulsa, Oklahoma USA and Hi-Style Studio in Chicago, Illinois, USA

Album Released: on February 10, 2015

Rounder Records

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Happy December!

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JD McPherson - Shining Like Gold

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Let the sky open up and let the Good Times roll!

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The Caezars “S/T”

The Caezars “S/T” It seems a lifetime since we were extoling the virtues of the Caezars and declaring they have ‘the song-writing skills and live-ability to re-energise Rockabilly music for a whole new generation’. Although as we found out at Red Rooster Festival (see review here) it was actually about 10 years ago. We were absolutely delighted to learn not only that they were back together and…

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Every Single Christmas by JD McPherson

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