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Meropi Kyriacou Honored as TNH Educator of the Year
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
NEW YORK — Robert Plant and Alison Krauss have reunited for another album more than a dozen years after their collaboration "Raising Sand" became a critical and commercial hit, earning six Grammy Awards.
The 12-track "Raise the Roof" will be out Nov. 19 from Rounder Records and is a collection of covers like its predecessor. It was completed in Nashville just weeks before the 2020 lockdown and is once again produced by T-Bone Burnett.
The new album has Plant and Krauss singing songs by Merle Haggard, Allen Toussaint, The Everly Brothers, Anne Briggs, Geeshie Wiley, Bert Jansch, Betty Harris and the band Calexico, among others. There is also a Plant-Burnett original.
The former Led Zeppelin frontman, previously best known for his high-decibel shrieking and rock star theatrics, found more docile Nashville melodies with country and bluegrass icon Krauss on their first collaboration.
"Raising Sand" won album of the year at the 2008 Americana Music Honors & Awards, debuted #2 on the Billboard 200, generated platinum sales and was hailed around the world as a creative high point in both musicians' long and distinguished careers.
That album featured The Everly Brothers' "Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On)," Allen Toussaint's "Fortune Teller," Townes Van Zandt's "Nothin''' and country star Mel Tillis' "Stick With Me Baby."
The new album will include covers of Harris' "Trouble With My Lover," Wiley's "Last Kind Words Blues," Jimmy Reed's "High and Lonesome" and Ola Belle Reed's "You Led Me to the Wrong."
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
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