Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music CriticIn the annals of popular music, has there ever been a more successful confluence of two existing solo brands than Robert Plant and Alison Krauss?
Pretty much as a rule, duos start out in that configuration, then crash in clashes of egos; they’re not things that begin 20, 30, 40 years into respective careers.
The long-lost fad of CSNY-style supergroups is one thing, but superduos never really became a thing at all, at least in that same joining-of-the-titans sense.
Apparently there’s an eternal shortage of superstars willing to put themselves in an ongoing creative situation that could result at any moment in that scariest of scenarios for an alpha creative: a tie.Yet here, like kismet, are Plant and Krauss, the exception to the rule.
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