From Hell To Breakfast: Musical Review, With Recipe: Raising Sand & Spinach Madeline

On those occassions when you feel like your raw intelligence is that of a postage stamp compared to your kids, friends, enemies, and other people whom you suspect of having more money, better breath, and better sex than you have, you might consider popping in the unlikely CD Raising Sand by Robert Plant and Allison Krauss. 

Be sure the CD player is on shuffle. This CD is rigged to make the most of Plant's subtle, crooner-ish, bluesy, been-to-hell-and-left-my-soul-there voice and Allison Krauss's unearthly I-was-born-old harmonies. Consequently some of the songs feel a little long unless you're crazy about roots music meeting the blues and smooching them. (I happen to be.) It will help not to know what's coming up. 

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