PLANT & KRAUSS

Robert Plant and Allison Krauss came together to make a great album of roots blues rock music this year. It was heaped with praise and amply awarded. You remember Plant as the lead singer in the Golden Hindenburg (see clip) and Krauss as a simple washer woman in Dogpatch, USA, but together, well...just listen. Good stuff.

(The video of Plant & Krauss was pulled due to questions of copyright infringement, so here is a replacement clip of Plant's old band from the gloriously excessive '70s)

Hear Plant and Krauss sing "Please Read the Letter" from their album Raising Sand--just click the button:

I DIED A HUNDRED TIMES

British soul singer Amy Winehouse is big trouble. You know it, and I know it. The US government agrees, and denied the singer a visa to enter the country and attend the Grammys, where she's been nominated for six awards, including Album of the Year. It's well known that she's struggling with rehab (insert obvious comments here) but we think the girl deserves a break.
The Department of Homeland Security (perhaps fearing bad publicity) finally issued a waiver to the "dangerous" soul singer, but Amy has decided to stay home. The latest in a long line of self-destructive, addicted, soulful singers, she will perform via satellite.

Yup, there are more important things in the world (insert your list here) but we had to run this clip of Amy performing "Back to Black" at the 2007 Glastonbury Music Festival. Wicked cool.