A sublime Saturday night at Ottawa\u0027s RBC Bluesfest, with Robert Plant, Allison Krauss, Daniel Lanois and Blackie and the Rodeo Kings.
Next to him was Krauss, in a gorgeous patterned dress, who elevated the show with her graceful playing and added a layer of ethereal vocals. Not to say that Plant hogged the mic, but my one minor quibble is that it would have been nice to see Krauss featured in a bigger way.
Blackie, as you may know, is a Canadian roots-rock supergroup that consists of Tom Wilson , Colin Linden and Stephen Fearing. They already played Ottawa once this year, stopping at the National Arts Centre last winter. As good as that show was, this one was even better — and not just because everything sounds better on a big stage under a summer sky.
Lanois wasted no time in taking the reins, orchestrating the music with a simple nod or brief glance to the others. He alternated between guitar and pedal steel, and featured a handful of songs from his solo career, reaching way back for Under the Stormy Sky and then pulling a fully realized rendition of The Maker out of his bag of tricks before leading the charge on a multi guitar-fuelled Lotta Love to Give.
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