I haven't treated myself to a new *real* album from the CD store in some time -- I'm a legal online downloader, thank you very much -- so I treated myself to two new releases this week.I've been anticipating the Robert Plant and Alison Krauss album, "Raising Sand," for weeks, in part thanks to the tracks I heard on The Current.
The first I heard was "Stick With Me Baby," and I'm sticking with it here. It set off that Everything But the Girl gong in my heart's songbook. Early impression of the album: It's pleasant enough, but if you bought Willie Nelson's "Teatro," you're in for pretty much the same flavor of treat here, with duets.
The other album I got is the perfect argument in favor of online downloading. Iron & Wine's "The Shepherd's Dog" hits one with some fairly ugly cover art, which, combined with a lyric sheet that folds out to a page roughly equivalent in size (and refolding complexity) to a state map, has the discerning listener pleading, "iTunes, please."Luckily, the music is good.
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--> Stick With Me Baby, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss
--> Resurrection Fern, Iron & Wine
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