Song · Robert Plant & Alison Krauss
“Please Read The Letter” by Robert Plant & Alison Krauss
From the album Raising Sand (2007)
“Please Read The Letter” by Robert Plant & Alison Krauss appears on 9 radio countdowns from 5 stations between 2007 and 2026. It was first released in 2007 on the album Raising Sand. Its best result is #38 on the Lightning 100 Top 100 Songs of 2008. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #67 indie & aaa song of 2008, #2,203 indie & aaa song of all time and #105 of the '00s.
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Robert Plant first cut "Please Read the Letter" with Jimmy Page for Walking into Clarksdale in 1998, the only studio album the pair made as Page and Plant, and years later he brought it back for Raising Sand, his 2007 album with Alison Krauss. Page, Plant, Charlie Jones and Michael Lee share the writing credit, and Plant has said it's a song about longing for someone, about unfinished business.
Here the two voices do the heavy lifting, Plant and Krauss together, with Krauss on fiddle too, over Marc Ribot's electric and acoustic guitars, T-Bone Burnett's acoustic, Dennis Crouch on bass and Jay Bellerose on drums; Mike Piersante recorded and mixed it. It took Record of the Year at the 2009 Grammys, and only after that did it crack Billboard's Bubbling Under chart.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 49 | WXPN Philadelphia, PA | WXPN Year in Review: Top 100 Songs of 2007 | 100 |
| 2008 | 38 | Lightning 100 Nashville, TN | Lightning 100 Top 100 Songs of 2008 | 100 |
| 2008 | 51 | 107.1 The Peak Westchester County, NY | WXPK Top 107 Songs of 2008 | 107 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 60 | WYEP | WYEP 913 Songs That Matter from the Last Decade | 913 |
| 2009 | 83 | WYEP | WYEP 913 Essential Songs | 913 |
| 2013 | 356 | WXPN | WXPN 885 Greatest Songs of the New Millennium (2013) | 885 |
| 2024 | 383 | WXPN | WXPN The 885 Greatest Songs of the 21st Century (2024) | 885 |
| 2025 | 299 | WYEP | WYEP Best Songs of the 21st Century (So Far) | 714 |
| 2026 | 602 | KXT | KXT 917 Song Countdown | 917 |
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