Raising Sand is a Grammy-award winning collaboration album Robert Plant & Alison Krauss. It was released on 23 October 2007 by Rounder Records. Raising Sand won Album of the Year at both the 2008 Americana Music Honors & Awards and the 2009 Grammy Awards. The album was nominated for the 2008 Mercury Prize in the UK. Featuring covers of established songs, the compilation was picked by the producer, T Bone Burnett.