Raising Sand, ranked among the most challenging songs of his career.
“It’s just the most difficult piece of music to sing at the tempo that we sang it at,” Plant explained on the latest episode of his
Digging Deep podcast. “It’s one of the toughest calls I’ve had, apart from my audition in the Yardbirds.”
While Gene Clark’s original version of the song -- released in 1969 on the Dillard & Clark LP
Through the Morning, Through the Night -- was a mid-tempo country tune, Plant and Krauss opted to slow the pace down to an intoxicating sway.