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    Q&A: Robert Plant and Alison Krauss on the secrets to aging gracefully

    Robert Plant picked up the phone at his home in western England and offered a detailed weather report as he peered through a picture window in a sitting room. "It's a beautiful evening here," said the 73-year-old singer best known as the golden-god frontman of Led Zeppelin. "That said, in the U.K. we're unaccustomed to 38 degrees Celsius" — about 100 degrees Fahrenheit — "which is what's been ...
    by Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times Aug 18, 2022 5 minutes
    Robert Plant and Alison Krauss perform before accepting the Album of the Year award for their album "Raising the Sand," during the 51st annual Grammy awards held at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on Feb. 8, 2009.

    Robert Plant picked up the phone at his home in western England and offered a detailed weather report as he peered through a picture window in a sitting room.

    "It's a beautiful evening here," said the 73-year-old singer best known as the golden-god frontman of Led Zeppelin. "That said, in the U.K. we're unaccustomed to 38 degrees Celsius" — about 100 degrees Fahrenheit — "which is what's been going on today. There's a major panic around the country with the water supplies.

    "So: lovely, but also a little ominous."

    The description isn't a bad one for the music Plant makes with Alison Krauss, the veteran bluegrass singer and fiddler he met nearly 20 years ago when they sang together as part of a Lead Belly tribute concert. In 2007, the two teamed with producer T Bone Burnett for an album, "Raising Sand," which showcased their haunting vocal interplay in lushly arranged.

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