Speaking from personal experience, many music fans met last year?s Raising Sand with a sizable dose of skepticism: "The dude from Led Zeppelin and a bluegrass fiddle player? Really?" But they didn?t count on the bewitching alchemy of Alison Krauss and Robert Plant?s voices, aided by Fort Worth-raised producer T Bone Burnett?s haunting soundscapes, recasting everything from perky Everly ...

If you?ve spent any time tracking the career of T-Bone Burnett, you?re probably not surprised at how magnificently this concert succeeded.

The names Robert Plant and Alison Krauss were on the tickets, but the featured act at a sold-out Greek Theatre on Friday night was no duet.

Brendan Benson and bluegrass? Cult tunesmith Jon Brion and the new Robert Plant & Alison Krauss collaboration? These are the makings of the next album from the blunted groove merchants who gave us "Down" and "All Mixed Up" and "Amber"? Well, they're at least one element, anyway, says Nick Hexum, lead singer and chief songwriter for the rap-rock-reggae-etc. outfit 311. "Those harmonies ...

Brendan Benson and bluegrass? Cult tunesmith Jon Brion and the new Robert Plant & Alison Krauss collaboration?

Dan Tyminski is a reluctant lead singer, which is surprising for a few reasons. First of all, he consistently holds his own as a vocalist and guitarist in Alison Krauss & Union Station, which is one of the most formidable bands in any genre of music.

Dan Tyminski has been a crucial part of bluegrass music's two most monumental commercial successes. His guitar and voice are key elements in Alison Krauss' Union Station band, and his howling vocal on "I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow" helped propel the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack into the sales stratosphere.

Robert Plant, Alison Krauss 8pm Mon, Jul 7. $49.50-89.50. Nokia Theatre at Grand Prairie, 1001 Performance Pl, Grand Prairie. 214-373-8000.

The Led Zeppelin reunion got all the big headlines last year, but the really good reviews went to singer Robert Plant ?s collaboration with bluegrass star Alison Krauss . The resulting album, Raising Sand, produced by T-Bone Burnett, has been nominated for umpteen statuettes in just about every music-awards show you can name, and numerous critics have strained themselves with their gushing praise.

When it was announced that Robert Plant and Alison Krauss were making an album together, the cohabitation of neat and fussy Felix Unger and slovenly Oscar Madison in Neil Simon?s ?The Odd Couple? sprang to mind.