Music Exploder – Companions: Robert Plant & Alison Krauss

Bonus Episode

This week, I need to introduce you to a different podcast that I make, referred to as Companions. It’s a present about partnerships that was born out of Music Exploder. I’ve made a bunch of episodes with bandmates, or co-writers, or an artist and a producer who labored collectively, all these tales the place the songs have been the results of a extremely particular collaboration. And I used to be all the time fascinated by the origins of the connection, as a part of the story of the origin of the music. If you hear these tales, it turns into clear that what these individuals made collectively is one thing that displays not simply every of them individually, however this different, distinctive entity that solely exists the place the 2 of them meet. And I needed to make a podcast that was completely about that concept. And I really feel like all profitable long-term partnerships might be considered love tales. It’s a matter of luck, and being in the precise place on the proper time, and in addition work and persistence, plus some ineffable magic spark. In order that’s what Companions is about. The primary season got here out in 2020, and the second season simply started final week. You may subscribe to the present at Companions.present, or wherever you get your podcasts, and many others, however I additionally simply need to play you this episode from season 2, with two music greats, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, who’ve made two unbelievable albums collectively.

You should purchase or stream each of their albums,Elevating Sand and Increase the Roof.

Illustration by Carlos Lerma.