Song · Robert Plant & Alison Krauss
“Can't Let Go” by Robert Plant & Alison Krauss
From the album Raise the Roof (2021)
“Can't Let Go” by Robert Plant & Alison Krauss appears on 16 radio countdowns from 12 stations between 2021 and 2025. It was first released in 2021 on the album Raise the Roof. Its best result is #4 on the WYEP Top 91 Songs of 2021. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #17 indie & aaa song of 2021, #1,515 indie & aaa song of all time and #102 of the '20s.
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"Can't Let Go" was the lead single from Raise the Roof, the 2021 album from Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, and it's a Randy Weeks song that Lucinda Williams made her own on Car Wheels on a Gravel Road back in 1998. Plant and Krauss sing it together over a band that reads like a roots-music dream team: Bill Frisell on electric guitar, David Hidalgo on acoustic, Viktor Krauss on double bass, Russ Pahl on electric bass and Jay Bellerose on drums and percussion, with Hidalgo and Bellerose supplying the handclaps.
T-Bone Burnett produced, Mike Piersante recorded and mixed, and Rachael Moore handled extra recording. The result is country rock with a loose, swampy swing, and it climbed to number 8 on Billboard's Adult Alternative Airplay chart, 6 places higher than Williams' version had managed there.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 22 | Exit 97.7 Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY | WEXT Top 97 of 2021 | 97 |
| 2021 | 43 | WFUV New York, NY | WFUV Top 90 Songs of 2021 | 90 |
| 2021 | 99 | WRNR 103.1 Annapolis, MD | WRNR Top 103.1 Songs of 2021 | 104 |
| 2021 | 43 | WTMD Baltimore, MD | WTMD Top 89 Songs of 2021 | 89 |
| 2021 | 99 | 107.1 The Peak Westchester County, NY | WXPK Top 107 Songs of 2021 | 107 |
| 2021 | 50 | WXPN Philadelphia, PA | WXPN Top 100 Most Played Songs of 2021 | 100 |
| 2021 | 43 | 90.9 The Bridge Kansas City, MO | 90.9 The Bridge Top 90 Songs of 2021 | 90 |
| 2021 | 4 | WYEP Pittsburgh, PA | WYEP Top 91 Songs of 2021 | 91 |
| 2021 | 171 | Lightning 100 Nashville, TN | Lightning 100 Top 200 Songs of 2021 | 200 |
| 2021 | 14 | The Current Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN | The Current Top 89 Songs of 2021 | 89 |
| 2021 | 18 | WERS 88.9 Boston, MA | WERS Top 88 Songs of 2021 | 88 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 329 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Colorado Sound Songs of All Time | 1055 |
| 2023 | 323 | WYEP | WYEP Countdown to Fall 2023 | 1229 |
| 2024 | 798 | WXPN | WXPN The 885 Greatest Songs of the 21st Century (2024) | 885 |
| 2024 | 268 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 850 Cover Songs | 850 |
| 2025 | 451 | The Current | 893 Essential Songs of The Current: 2005 to Now | 893 |
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