Song · Robert Plant & Alison Krauss
“Killing The Blues” by Robert Plant & Alison Krauss
From the album Raising Sand (2007)
“Killing The Blues” by Robert Plant & Alison Krauss appears on 4 radio countdowns from 3 stations between 2024 and 2025. It was first released in 2007 on the album Raising Sand. Its best result is #293 on The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Songs of the 21st Century. In the combined RockLists rankings it is #3,196 indie & aaa song of all time.
"Killing the Blues" is one of the songs producer T Bone Burnett handpicked for Raising Sand, the first album pairing rock singer Robert Plant with bluegrass-country singer Alison Krauss, which Rounder released in October 2007. It's a Rowland Salley song, words and music, and Plant and Krauss sing it together.
Burnett plays electric and acoustic guitar on it, with Marc Ribot adding more electric guitar, Greg Leisz on pedal steel, Dennis Crouch on double bass and Jay Bellerose on drums, and Mike Piersante recorded and mixed the track. Critics fell hard for the album, Rolling Stone put it at No. 24 on its list of 2007's top 50, and Raising Sand went on to win Album of the Year at both the Americana Music Honors & Awards and the Grammys.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 293 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Songs of the 21st Century | 1055 |
| 2024 | 761 | WXPN | WXPN The 885 Greatest Songs of the 21st Century (2024) | 885 |
| 2024 | 344 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 850 Cover Songs | 850 |
| 2025 | 794 | The Current | 893 Essential Songs of The Current: 2005 to Now | 893 |
Also listed as: Killing the Blues.
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