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The first wave of national fame came for bluegrass fiddler Alison Krauss in 1990 when, at the age of 19, she walked away from the Grammy Awards with the trophy for Best Bluegrass Album. The win was a feat not only because of the artist’s age, but because the album that earned her such recognition, I’ve Got That Old Feeling, was actually the third in Krauss’s collection. Her first effort, Too Late to Cry, was released when the Champaign, Illinois, native was 16; she had signed a contract with Rounder Records—one of the most prestigious folk music labels in the industry—at the age of 14. And Krauss’s accomplishments at such a young age and astounding virtuosity have consistently been matched by her faithfulness to bluegrass, the oldest, and perhaps most underrated, of traditional American musical forms. Krauss had now matured from a teen phenom into an accomplished musician and producer.

In 1988 Krauss was chosen by the National Council for the Traditional Arts as one of six fiddlers representative of American folk music styles—a nomination that placed her among some of the best-known and most experienced fiddlers in the country. According to News-week’s Bill Christophersen, the style for which Krauss was elected was "western fiddling—a tradition that shuns blistering tempos for ornate improvisation. Western fiddlers pull a long bow, reeling off cascades of notes and turning hoedowns into showpieces."

"A Real Contest Queen"
Krauss first picked up the fiddle when she was five. In a remarkably short time, she was playing professionally, making a name for herself at music competitions across the country. Musician contributor Jim Macnie recounted how "[Krauss] became notorious for scarfing up top prize in a slew of Midwestern competitions" and quoted the fiddler as having admitted, "My parents and I drove all the time, sometimes even hit two or three a weekend. Yeah, I was a real contest queen." In 1984, 13-year-old Alison walked away with the top fiddling prize at the National Flatpicking Championship in Win-field, Kansas; the subsequent year brought her considerable attention at the Newport Folk Festival, in Rhode Island, one of the largest events on the folk music calendar. She was also busy picking up first prizes at state fiddling championships across the country, including Illinois, Indiana, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Wisconsin.

Although the Grammy Award that she earned in 1990 marked a high point in Krauss’s career, there were several other signs of her artistic coming of age in the early 1990s. She was a big winner with the International Bluegrass Music Association, which conferred upon her awards including Female Vocalist of the Year, Entertainer of the Year, and Album of the Year. And, in a move that echoed her early triumphs on the competition circuit, she became one of the chief draws at

major folk music events across the country in 1991, including Telluride, in Colorado, and Winterhawk, in New York. 1991 also saw Krauss’s first appearance at Jamboree USA, where she opened for bluegrass/country great Ricky Skaggs.

Expanded the Boundaries of Bluegrass
By this time, Krauss was becoming renowned for a unique quality in her musicianship—her ability to add a dimension, a styling, to the traditional bluegrass form that gave it a barrier-breaking power. As her reputation developed and broadened, she continued to maintain that special ability, as was reflected in Dan DeLuca’s comments in the Philadelphia Inquirer: "Krauss and [her band] Union Station respect bluegrass rules, but play with a crackling intensity that largely avoids the sameness that plagues the genre." David Wild’s review of I’ve Got That Old Feeling for Rolling Stone similarly claimed, "Krauss makes traditional bluegrass seem utterly contemporary." Her expertise allowed Krauss to take bluegrass into the larger music mainstream, compelling listeners who were otherwise disinclined toward the sound to embrace its possibilities.

Ultimately, Krauss chose to downplay her role as a fiddle virtuoso to pursue a more modest commitment to the music itself. Scott Alarik, who interviewed Krauss for the Boston Globe in 1991, documented the fiddler’s shift from phenomenon to bluegrass purist, explaining, "Just as she was gaining national prominence as a fiddle prodigy, she began eschewing hot licks in favor of a more restrained, melodic style—and to showcase her vocals. By 16, she was playing with the austere musicality of a master." Consequently, as some reviewers were applauding Krauss’s ability to make musical masterpieces out of the humble raw materials of blue-grass, others began to praise the integrity of her budding professionalism. At a 1991 Philadelphia concert, the Inquirer’s DeLuca was struck by her musical restraint. "Although her playing consistently dazzled the adoring crowd," the journalist recalled, "Krauss never once extended a solo to the point where it became more important than the song itself." In the same vein, Jim Bessman of Billboard noted that Krauss was "reluctant to do anything that might diverge from pure bluegrass conventions."

While many critics encouraged Krauss’s dedication to bluegrass, producers from country music labels began trying to woo her away from the Rounder Records world of folk music with visions of commercial success. Public interest in Krauss was evident; as early as 1989, record reviewers were touting her potential as an international star. Goldmine writer Kit Kiefer declared, "Krauss has the talent and the looks to become the next truly great country music artist." Krauss’s sweet soprano has, in fact, regularly prompted comparisons to country divas Dolly Parton and Emmylou Harris. For that matter, much of the country music industry’s interest in Krauss has been based more on her status as a vocalist than as a fiddler. Although the musician herself may be primarily devoted to her skills as an instrumentalist, she has not neglected the development of her vocal talents; she began studying voice with William Warfield, an important name in the world of opera, at the University of Illinois in 1988.

Actively Courted by Major Country Labels
Edward Morris, writing in Billboard in 1991, captured the extent of the country music industry’s courtship of Krauss, attesting, "At a recent Krauss concert at [Nashville’s] Station Inn, the audience included [such industry heavyweights as] personal managers Ken Levitan and David Skepner and MCA Records executive VP and [Artists & Repertoire] chief Tony Brown." Affirmed Globe contributor Alarik, "A few major labels in Nashville thought she could do well in commercial country music." He quoted Krauss’s response: ’They wanted me to do records that were more geared toward country radio; you know, with electric guitars, drums, pedal steel. That just wasn’t something I was interested in doing. One particular offer sounded really good. My parents were really excited, and our lawyer was excited. I finally decided I hadn’t had my fill of playing bluegrass. I don’t think I ever will."

Despite her decision to stay with Rounder, Krauss enjoyed considerable success with country music fans. In 1990, she made several key appearances in vital country formats, taping an episode of television’s Hee Haw and becoming a regular on the Grand Ole Opry. She subsequently solidified her popularity with a performance at the Country Music Association’s awards show.

The universality of attention being paid to Krauss’s work has made it more difficult for the fiddler to control how her music is defined. She told Alarik, "[If Union Station] signs with a major label some day, it won’t be commercial country music I’ll be doing; not that it’s something I don’t like—we listen to it in the van all the time. The main issue is that we don’t want to be told what to play and how to play it." Although the Illinois Entertainer’s Bill Dalton labeled Krauss’s 1989 album, Two Highways, as a country offering, it wasn’t until the reviews for I’ve Got That Old Feeling began emerging that the battle over what Krauss really played—blue-grass or country—was explicitly declared. A music critic for the Village Voice asserted that the "queen of blue-grass has gone and made a country record." The City Paper, of Baltimore, was even bolder, stating, ’This release is packed with fine bluegrass pickers,… but for the most part the material is mainstream Nashville that’s been shoehorned into bluegrass instrumentation."

That claim was seemingly bolstered by I’ve Got That Old Feeling’s ten-week residency on Billboard’s country album charts. The video for the title track—a rare venture for Rounder Records—enjoyed heavy rotation on cable’s Country Music Television (CMT); it was subsequently named "video hit #1" on that channel. Krauss’s second video release, for "Steel Rails," also became prominent on CMT. Though Krauss may prefer to view herself primarily as a bluegrass musician and has not courted the country mainstream, her appeal has clearly crossed over into that territory. In July of 1993, Krauss was inducted into the Grand Ole Opry, the first bluegrass singer to be so honored in almost three decades.

Every Time You Say Goodbye, released in 1992, also contained a country music flair. The album showcases the tight vocal harmonies and musicianship of Union Station that have successfully supported Krauss’s high, pure vocals and impressive fiddling. It won a Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album. Krauss released I Know Who Holds Tomorrow with the Cox Family on Rounder in 1994. The album won a Grammy Award for Best Southern Gospel, Country Gospel, or Bluegrass Gospel Album that year. Though not as spectacular a collection as Every Time You Say Goodbye, according to Thorn Owens of All Music Guide, I Know Who Holds Tomorrow contains Krauss’s typically impressive combination of "jaw-dropping fiddling and breathtaking singing."

Surprise Crossover Success
Though Krauss’s previous award-winning records had created new excitement for bluegrass and earned her great acclaim, it was the surprise crossover success of the compilation Now That I’ve Found You: A Collection that launched Krauss into the upper stratum of mainstream popularity. The album, comprised of nine songs from Krauss’s catalog of recorded music from 1987 to 1994 as well as three previously unreleased songs and the Grammy Award-nominated "When You Say Nothing at All" from Keith Whitley: A Tribute Album, charted at number two on Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart and number 13 on the Top 200 pop chart. Likely responsible for the album’s pop appeal were covers of the Foundations’ 1967 pop song "Baby, Now That I’ve Found You," Bad Company’s "Oh, Atlanta," and the Beatles’ "I Will."

Krauss and Union Station released So Long, So Wrong in 1997, the first album of new material by the group since Every Time You Say Goodbye in 1992. Called "devilishly pleasing" by Alana Nash in Entertainment Weekly, the album returned to a traditional bluegrass focus. "It’s much more challenging to make something new-sounding with the same five instruments and less options," Krauss told Jim Bessman in Billboard, "and the band only gets tighter the longer we play together… I guess we’re more mature, which sounds so stupid, but it’s true…."

Forget About It, released in 1999, was another of Krauss’s "solo" records. "What happens with my ‘solo’ records is that the band gets a chance to play with other musicians, and they like doing that," Krauss told Timothy White in Billboard. Krauss lends a great deal of thought to the mood of the music she produces, and told White that Forget About It had regret as its theme. "I say the … record has a sadness to it, but I like it, ’cause I think it’s the positive kind, still looking for the way up to the good, wherever people can find it."

The year 2001 saw the remarkable multiplatinum success of the soundtrack to the film O Brother, Where Art Thou? Appearing on the soundtrack was an esteemed collection of American country, folk, and bluegrass musicians, including Krauss, Ralph Stanley, Emmylou Harris, John Hartford, the Fairfield Four, Gillian Welch, the Cox Family, the Stanley Brothers, Norman Blake, and the Whites. Mario Tarradell of the Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service called Krauss’s version of "Down to the River to Pray" "uplifting and breathtaking." Another notable track was "Didn’t Leave Nobody But the Baby," which was sung a cappella by Krauss, Harris, and Welch. "[T]he song has a bluesy edge that only punctuates the sadness of the lyrics," Tarradell commented.

Krauss and Union Station released New Favorite in 2001, an album that created a "progressive slant to Union Station’s traditional bluegrass feel," according to Zac Johnson of All Music Guide. The group released the two-disc Live set recorded at the Palace Theater in Louisville, Kentucky, in 2002. Krauss has also become a successful producer, working with award-winning bluegrass group Nickel Creek and the Cox Family.

Selected discography
Too Late to Cry, Rounder, 1987.
(With Union Station) Two Highways, Rounder, 1989.
I’ve Got That Old Feeling, Rounder, 1990.
(With Union Station) Every Time You Say Goodbye, Rounder, 1992.
(With the Cox Family) I Know Who Holds Tomorrow, Rounder, 1994.
(Contributor) Keith Whitley: A Tribute Album, BNA, 1994.
Now That I’ve Found You: A Collection, Rounder, 1995.
(Contributor) Twister (soundtrack), Warner Bros., 1996.
(Contributor) Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (soundtrack), Warner Bros., 1997.
(With Union Station) So Long, So Wrong, Rounder, 1997.
(Contributor) The Prince of Egypt: Nashville (soundtrack), DreamWorks, 1998.
(Contributor) Buffy The Vampire Slayer (soundtrack), TVT, 1999.
Forget About It, Rounder, 1999.
(Contributor) Happy, Texas (soundtrack), Arista, 1999.
(Contributor) O Brother, Where Art Thou? (soundtrack), Mercury, 2000.
(With Union Station) New Favorite, Rounder, 2001.
(Contributor) Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (soundtrack), DMZ/Columbia, 2002.
(With Union Station) Live, Rounder, 2002.

Sources
Periodicals
Billboard, October 27, 1990; November 10, 1990; July 17, 1993; May 20, 1995, p. 8; November 4, 1995, p. 55; February 22, 1997, p. 26; June 5, 1999, p. 3; August 21, 1999, p. 29; August 18, 2001, p. 14; November 2, 2002, p. 11.
Boston Globe, January 11, 1991.
City Paper (Baltimore), January 11, 1990.
Down Beat, October 1989.
Entertainment Weekly, February 10, 1995, p. 66; March 28, 1997, p. 66.
Goldmine, November 3, 1989.
Illinois Entertainer (Des Plaines), November 1989.
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service, August 28, 2001, p. K2508; December 12, 2001, p. K5.
Musician, February 1991.
Newsweek, October 1, 1990.
Philadelphia Inquirer, March 26, 1991.
Rolling Stone, November 15, 1990.
Village Voice, November 20, 1990.

Online
"Alison Krauss," All Music Guide, http://www.allmusic.com (February 28, 2003).
Alison Krauss and Union Station Official Website, http://www.alisonkrauss.com (February 27, 2003).
Rounder Records, http://www.rounder.com (February 27, 2003).
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Alison Krauss helped bring bluegrass to a new audience in the '90s. Blending bluegrass with folk, Krauss was instantly acclaimed from the start of her career, but it wasn't until her platinum-selling 1995 compilation Now That I've Found You that she became a mainstream star. Between her 1987 debut Too Late to Cry and Now That I've Found You, she matured from a child prodigy to a versatile, ambitious, and diverse musician and, in the process, made some of the freshest bluegrass of the late '80s and early '90s.

When she was five years old, Krauss began playing the violin, taking classical lessons. She soon tired of the regimen of classical playing and began performing country and bluegrass licks. At the age of eight, she began entering talent contests in and around her native Champaign, IL. Two years later, she had her own band. In 1983, when she was 12 years old, she won the Illinois State Fiddle Championship and the Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass in America named her the Most Promising Fiddler in the Midwest. In 1985, Krauss made her recording debut on an album, playing on a record made by her brother Viktor, Jim Hoiles, and Bruce Weiss. The album was called Different Strokes and appeared on the independent Fiddle Tunes label. Later that year, she signed to Rounder Records. She was 14 years old at the time.

Too Late to Cry, Krauss' debut album, appeared in 1987 to very positive reviews. The album was recorded with Krauss' backup band, the Union Station, which featured guitarist Jeff White, banjoist Alison Brown, and bassist Viktor Krauss; the following year, the group won the Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass in America's National Band Championship contest. In 1989, Krauss and Union Station released Two Highways, which was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Recording. Although the album didn't win the award, her next album, 1990's I've Got That Old Feeling, did. The success of I've Got That Old Feeling was unprecedented for bluegrass acts in the '80s and it laid the groundwork for Krauss' breakthrough in the '90s. By this time, Union Station's lineup had more or less settled. It now featured mandolinist Adam Steffey, banjoist/guitarist Ron Block, bassist Barry Bales, and guitarist Tim Stafford; Stafford later left the group and was replaced by Dan Tyminski.

In 1992, Alison Krauss & Union Station released Every Time You Say Goodbye, which featured a typically eclectic array of material. The album appeared in the country charts and Krauss' videos were shown on Country Music Television. I Know Who Holds Tomorrow was released in 1994 and was even more successful. But it was the 1995 compilation Now That I've Found You: A Collection that made Krauss a star. The album reached number two on the country charts and -- even more remarkably -- went into the pop Top Ten and sold over a million copies. Its success confirmed her status as bluegrass' leading light in the '90s.

Krauss & Union Station followed the unexpected success of Now That I've Found You with So Long, So Wrong in spring 1997. Forget About It followed in mid-1999. A year later, Krauss & Union Station joined the likes of John Hartford, Ralph Stanley, and others for the multi-million-selling soundtrack O Brother, Where Art Thou? A North American tour showcasing some of the album's stellar musicians followed in summer 2002, allowing Krauss and her band's popularity to soar. New Favorite appeared in November and went gold within four months. A live album followed soon after, and in 2004 Krauss released Lonely Runs Both Ways. A Hundred Miles or More, a collection drawn from Krauss' Rounder albums, along with sides recorded for various soundtrack projects and five previously unreleased tracks, appeared in 2007. Also appearing in 2007 was Raising Sand, an acclaimed, multi-platinum collaboration with Robert Plant. She was back with Union Station for 2011’s Paper Airplane, which was self-produced by the band and engineered by Mike Shipley. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi
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Alison Krauss

Alison Krauss at MerleFest, 2007
Background information
Born (1971-07-23) July 23, 1971 (age 40)
Decatur, Illinois, US
Occupations Musician, Songwriter, Producer, Bandleader
Instruments Vocals, Fiddle, Viola
Years active 1984–present
Labels Rounder
Associated acts Dan Tyminski, Robert Plant, John Waite, Rhonda Vincent, Dolly Parton, Brad Paisley, Ricky Skaggs, Vince Gill, Jerry Douglas
Website AlisonKrauss.com

Alison Maria Krauss (born July 23, 1971) is an American bluegrass-country singer, songwriter and fiddler. She entered the music industry at an early age, winning local contests by the age of ten and recording for the first time at fourteen. She signed with Rounder Records in 1985 and released her first solo album in 1987. She was invited to join the band with which she still performs, Alison Krauss and Union Station (AKUS), and later released her first album with them as a group in 1989.

She has released fourteen albums, appeared on numerous soundtracks, and helped renew interest in bluegrass music in the United States. Her soundtrack performances have led to further popularity, including the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack, an album also credited with raising American interest in bluegrass, and the Cold Mountain soundtrack, which led to her performance at the 2004 Academy Awards. As of 2012, she has won 27 Grammy Awards from 41 nominations, making her the most awarded living recipient, and three back of the most honoured artist, classical conductor Sir Georg Solti.[1] She is also the most awarded singer and the most awarded female artist in Grammy history.[2] At the time of her first award, at the 1991 Grammy Awards, she was the second youngest winner ever (currently tied as third youngest).

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Biography

Alison Maria Krauss[3] was born in Decatur, Illinois. Her parents are originally from Columbus, Mississippi. Krauss was raised in Champaign, Illinois. She began studying classical violin at age five but soon switched to bluegrass. Krauss said she first became involved with music because "[my] mother tried to find interesting things for me to do" and "wanted to get me involved in music, in addition to art and sports[4] At the age eight she started entering local talent contests, and at ten she had her own band. At 13 she won the Walnut Valley Festival Fiddle Championship,[5] and the Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass in America named her the "Most Promising Fiddler in the Midwest".[citation needed] Krauss first met Dan Tyminski around 1984 at a festival held by the Society. Every current member of her band, Union Station, first met her at these festivals.[6]

1985–1991: Early career

Krauss made her recording debut in 1985 on the independent album, Different Strokes, featuring her brother Viktor, Swamp Weiss and Jim Hoiles. From the age of 12 she performed with bassist and songwriter John Pennell in a band called "Silver Rail", replacing their previous fiddler Andrea Zonn.[7] Pennell later changed the band's name to Union Station after another band was discovered with the name Silver Rail.[8] Pennell remains one of her favorite songwriters[9] and wrote some of her early work including the popular "Every Time You Say Goodbye".

Later that year she signed to Rounder Records, and in 1987, at 16, she released her debut album Too Late to Cry with Union Station as her backup band.[10]

Krauss' debut solo album was followed shortly by her first group album with Union Station in 1989 Two Highways.[11] The album includes the traditional tunes, Wild Bill Jones and Beaumont Rag, along with a bluegrass interpretation of The Allman Brothers' "Midnight Rider". Alison Krauss and Union Station would later perform at the 1989 Newport Folk Festival.[citation needed]

Krauss' contract with Rounder required her to alternate between releasing a solo album and an album with Union Station, and she released the solo album I've Got That Old Feeling in 1990. It was her first album to rise onto the Billboard charts, peaking in the top seventy-five on the country chart. The album also was a notable point in her career as she earned her first Grammy Award, the single "Steel Rails" was her first single tracked by Billboard, and the title single "I've Got That Old Feeling" was the first song for which she recorded a music video.

1992–1999: Rising success

Alison Krauss & Union Station
Name Role
Alison Krauss Lead vocals, fiddle, viola
Larry Atamanuik Drums, percussion
Barry Bales Bass
Ron Block Guitar, banjo
Jerry Douglas Dobro
Dan Tyminski Guitar, mandolin

Krauss' second Union Station album Everytime You Say Goodbye was released in 1992, and she went on to win her second Grammy for Best Bluegrass Album of the year. She then joined the Grand Ole Opry in 1993 at the age of 21.[11] She was the youngest cast member at the time, and the first bluegrass artist to join the Opry in twenty-nine years.[citation needed] She also collaborated on a project with the Cox Family in 1994, a bluegrass album called I Know Who Holds Tomorrow. Mandolin and guitar player Dan Tyminski replaced Tim Stafford in Union Station in 1994. Late in the year, Krauss recorded with the band Shenandoah on its single "Somewhere in the Vicinity of the Heart", which brought her to the country music Top Ten for the first time. Also in 1994, Krauss collaborated with Suzy Bogguss, Kathy Mattea, and Crosby, Stills, and Nash to contribute "Teach Your Children" to the AIDS benefit album Red Hot + Country produced by the Red Hot Organization. In 1997, she recorded vocals and violin for "Half a Mind", on Tommy Shaw's 7 Deadly Zens album.

Now That I've Found You: A Collection, a compilation of older releases and some covers of her favorite works by other artists, was released in 1995. Some of these covers include Bad Company's "Oh Atlanta", The Foundations' & Dan Schafer's "Baby, Now That I've Found You", which was used in the Australian hit comedy movie The Castle, and The Beatles' "I Will."[12] A cover of Keith Whitley's "When You Say Nothing at All" reached the top five on the Billboard country chart;[citation needed] the album peaked in the top fifteen on the all-genre Billboard 200 chart, and sold two million copies to become Krauss' first double-platinum album.[citation needed] Krauss also was nominated for four Country Music Association Awards and won all of them.[citation needed]

So Long So Wrong, another Union Station album, was released in 1997 and won the Grammy for Best Bluegrass Album. One critic said its sound was "rather untraditional" and "likely [to] change quite a few . . . minds about bluegrass."[13] Included on the album is the track "It Doesn't Matter", which was featured in the second season premiere episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer[14] and was included on the Buffy soundtrack in 1999.

Her next solo release in 1999, Forget About It, included one of her two tracks to appear on the Billboard adult contemporary chart, "Stay".[citation needed] The album was certified gold, and charted within the top seventy-five of the Billboard 200 and in the top five of the country chart.[citation needed] In addition, the track "That Kind of Love" was included in another episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.[15]

2000–present: Current career

Adam Steffey left Union Station in 1998, and was replaced with renowned Dobro player Jerry Douglas.[16] Douglas had provided studio back-up to Krauss's records since 1987's Too Late To Cry. Their next album, New Favorite, was released on August 14, 2001. The album went on to win the Grammy for Best Bluegrass Album, with the single "The Lucky One" winning a Grammy as well. New Favorite was followed up by the double platinum double album Live in 2002 and a release of a DVD of the same live performance in 2003. Both the album and the DVD were recorded during a performance at The Louisville Palace and both the album and DVD have been certified double Platinum. Also in 2002 she played a singing voice for one of the characters in "Eight Crazy Nights"

Lonely Runs Both Ways was released in 2004, and eventually became another Alison Krauss & Union Station gold certified album. Ron Block described Lonely Runs Both Ways as "pretty much... what we've always done" in terms of song selection and the style in which those songs were recorded.[citation needed] Krauss believes the group "was probably the most unprepared we've ever been" for the album and that songs were chosen as needed rather than planned beforehand.[4] She also performed a duet with Brad Paisley on his album Mud on the Tires in the single "Whiskey Lullaby". The single was quickly ranked in the top fifty of the Billboard Hot 100 and the top five of the Hot Country Songs, and won the Country Music Association Awards for "Best Musical Event" and "Best Music Video" of the year.[citation needed]

Krauss recorded a collaborative album, Raising Sand with Robert Plant in 2007 which would ultimately be RIAA certified platinum. Raising Sand was nominated for and won 5 Grammys at the 51st Grammy Awards including Album of the Year, Best Contemporary Folk/Americana Album, and Record of the Year ("Please Read the Letter"). Krauss and Plant recorded a Crossroads special in October 2007 for the Country Music Television network which first aired on February 12, 2008. The pair are currently working on a new album.[17] Alison Krauss has announced a new album release called Paper Airplane with Union Station on April 12, 2011, the follow-up album to "Lonely Runs Both Ways" (2004)

Personal life

Alison Krauss was married to Pat Bergeson from 1997-2001. Together they had a son in 1999.

Other work

Alison Krauss on stage with Robert Plant at Birmingham's NIA, 5th May 2008

Krauss has made multiple guest appearances on other records with lead vocals, harmony vocals, or fiddle playing. In 1993 she recorded vocals for the Phish song "If I Could" in Los Angeles.[18] In 1997 she contributed harmony vocals in both English and Irish to Irish traditional band Altan's Runaway Sunday album. She has contributed to numerous motion picture soundtracks, most notably the soundtrack O Brother, Where Art Thou? in 2000. She and co-vocalist Dan Tyminski contributed multiple tracks to the soundtrack, including "I'll Fly Away" (with Gillian Welch), "Down to the River to Pray", and "I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow".[citation needed] She also makes a guest appearance on Heart's March 2010 concert DVD "Night At Sky Church", providing the lead vocals for the song "These Dreams".[19]

In the film, Tyminski's vocals on "I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow" were used for George Clooney's character.[20] The soundtrack sold over seven million copies and won the Grammy for Album of the Year in 2002.[citation needed] The unexpected success of the album has been partially credited, as was Krauss herself,[21] with bringing a new interest in bluegrass to the United States. She has said, however, that she believes Americans already liked bluegrass and other less-heard musical genres, and that the film merely provided easy exposure to the music.[22] She did not appear in the movie, at her own request, as she was nine months pregnant during its filming.[23]

In 2007, Krauss released the anthology A Hundred Miles Or More: A Collection which was a collection of soundtrack work, duets with artists such as John Waite, James Taylor, Brad Paisley and esteemed fiddle player Natalie MacMaster, and newer tracks.[citation needed] The album was very commercially successful, but was received with a lukewarm reception from critics.[citation needed] One of the tracks, "Missing You", a duet with Waite (and a cover of his hit single from 1984), was similarly received as a single.[citation needed] On August 11, television network Great American Country aired a one-hour special, "Alison Krauss: A Hundred Miles or More" based on the album and featured many of the album's duets and solo performances.[citation needed]

Other soundtracks for which Krauss has performed include Twister, The Prince of Egypt, Eight Crazy Nights, Mona Lisa Smile, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Alias, Bambi II and Cold Mountain. She also contributed the song "Jubilee" to the 2004 documentary Paper Clips. The Cold Mountain songs "The Scarlet Tide" by T-Bone Burnett and Elvis Costello, and "You Will Be My Ain True Love", by her and Sting were nominated for an Academy Award, and she performed both songs at the 76th Academy Awards, the first with Costello and Burnett and the other with Sting.[24] She also worked as a producer for Nickel Creek on their debut self-titled album in 2000 and the follow-up This Side in 2002, which won Krauss her first Grammy as a music producer.[citation needed]

Reception and influences

Krauss's earliest musical experience was as an instrumentalist, though her style has grown to focus more on her vocals[11] with a band providing most of the instrumentation. Musicians she enjoys include Lou Gramm of Foreigner and Paul Rodgers of Bad Company.[25][26][27] Krauss' family listened to "folk records" while she was growing up, but she had friends who exposed her to groups such as AC/DC, Carly Simon, The Rolling Stones, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and ELO.[28] She cites Dolly Parton, with whom she has since collaborated a number of times, as a major influence. Some credit Krauss and Union Station, at least partially, with a recent revival of interest in bluegrass music in the United States.[21] Despite being together for nearly two decades and winning numerous awards, she said the group was "just beginning right now" (in 2002) because "in spite of all the great things that have happened for the band, [she] feel[s] musically it's just really beginning."[22] Although she alternates between solo releases and works with the band, she has said there is no difference in her involvement between the two.[23]

As a group, AKUS have been called "American favourites," "world-beaters,"[29] and "the tightest band around."[30] While they have been successful as a group, many reviews note Krauss still "remains the undisputed star and rock-solid foundation" and have described her as the "band's focus"[31] with an "angelic"[30] voice that "flows like honey".[31] Her work has been compared to that of The Cox Family, Bill Monroe, and Del McCoury,[citation needed] and has in turn been credited with influencing various "Newgrass" artists including Nickel Creek, for which she acted as record producer on two of their albums.[32] In addition to her work with Nickel Creek, she has acted as producer to the Cox Family, Reba McEntire and Alan Jackson.[33] Adam Sweeting of The Guardian has said Krauss and Union Station are "superb when they stick to hoedowns and hillbilly music, but much less convincing when they lurch towards the middle of the road,"[34] and Blender magazine has said the "flavorless repertoire [Krauss] sings... steers her toward Lite FM".[35] In addition, Q magazine and The Onion AV Club have said their newer releases are "pretty much the usual," and that although Krauss is generally "adventurous," these recent releases contain nothing to "alienate the masses".[36]

Voice, themes, and musical style

Krauss possesses a soprano[37] voice which has been described as "angelic".[30] She has said her musical influences include J. D. Crowe, Ricky Skaggs, and Tony Rice.[38] Many of her songs are described as sad,[39] and are often about love, especially lost love. Though she has a close involvement with her group and a long career in music, she rarely performs music she has written herself. She has also described her general approach to constructing an album as starting with a single song and selecting other tracks based on the first, to give the final album a somewhat consistent theme and mood.[23][40] She most commonly performs in the bluegrass and country genres, though she has had two songs on the adult contemporary charts, has worked with rock artists such as Phish[11] and Sting,[24] and is sometimes said to stray into pop music.[7][41]

Music videos

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The video for "Goodbye is All We Have" shows the group traveling, meeting at a crossroads, playing the song, and walking away together. About this sound Audio sample (help·info)

Krauss did not think she would make music videos at the beginning of her career, and after recording her first she was convinced it was so bad that she would never do another. Nonetheless, she has gone on to make further videos. Many of the first videos she saw were by bluegrass artists, although Dan Tyminski has noted that the video for Thriller was very popular at the time she was first exposed to music videos. She has made suggestions on the style or theme to some videos, though she tends to leave such decisions up to the director of the particular video. The group chooses directors by seeking out people who have previously directed videos bandmembers have enjoyed. The director for a video to "If I Didn't Know Any Better" from Lonely Runs Both Ways, for example, was selected because Krauss enjoyed work he had done with Def Leppard, and she wondered what he could do with their music. While style decisions are generally left to the various directors of the videos, many —including for "The Lucky One", "Restless", "Goodbye is All We Have", "New Favorite", and "If I Didn't Know Any Better"—follow a pattern. In all of these videos Krauss walks, sometimes interacting with other people, while the rest of the band follows her.[6][42]

Performances

Krauss has said she used to dislike working in the studio where she had to play the same song repeatedly, but has come to like studio work roughly the same as live stage performances. Her own favorite concert experiences include watching three Foreigner concerts during a single tour, a Dolly Parton concert, and a Larry Sparks concert.[43] She appeared on Austin City Limits in 1992 and opened the show in 1995 with Union Station.[44] The New Favorite tour, after AKUS' album of the same name, was planned to start September 12, 2001 in Cincinnati, Ohio, but was delayed until September 28 in Savannah, Georgia following the September 11 terrorist attacks[45] Krauss also took part in the Down from the Mountain tour in 2002, which featured many artists from the O Brother, Where Art Thou.[46][47] Down from the Mountain was followed by the Great High Mountain Tour, which was composed of musicians from both O Brother and Cold Mountain, including Krauss.[42] She has also given several notable smaller performances including at Carnegie Hall (with the Grand Ole Opry),[48] on Lifetime Television in a concert of female performers, on the radio show A Prairie Home Companion[49] where she sang two songs not previously recorded on any of her albums, and a performance at the White House attended by then-President Bill Clinton and then-Vice President Al Gore.[50]

Awards

See also: List of awards and nominations received by Alison Krauss

Alison Krauss has won a record twenty-seven Grammy Awards[51] over the course of her career as a solo artist, as a group with Union Station, as a duet with Robert Plant, and as a record producer. She's currently tied with Quincy Jones as the second most winner of Grammy Awards. Only the late classical conductor Sir Georg Solti has more overall Grammys (31).[52] She overtook Aretha Franklin for the most female wins at the 46th Grammy Awards where Krauss won three, bringing her total at the time to seventeen (Franklin won her sixteenth that night).[53] The Recording Academy (which presents the Grammy Awards) presented her with a special musical achievement honor in 2005.[54] She has also won 14 International Bluegrass Music Association Awards,[55] 8 Country Music Association Awards,[56][57] 2 Gospel Music Association Awards,[citation needed] 2 CMT Music Awards,[58][59][60] 2 Academy of Country Music Awards,[61] and 1 Canadian Country Music Award.[62] Country Music Television ranked Krauss 12th on their "40 Greatest Women of Country Music" list in 2002.[63]

At the 76th Academy Awards in February 2004, where she performed two nominated songs from the Cold Mountain soundtrack, Alison Krauss was chosen by Hollywood shoe designer Stuart Weitzman to wear a pair of $2 million 'Cinderella' sandals with 4½ inch clear glass stiletto heels and two straps adorned with 565 Kwiat diamonds set in platinum. Feeling like a rather unglamorous choice, Krauss said, "When I first heard, I was like, 'What were they thinking?' I have the worst feet of anybody who will be there that night!" In addition to the fairy-tale-inspired shoes, Weitzman outfitted Krauss with a Palm Trēo 600 smartphone, bejeweled with 3,000 clear-and-topaz-colored Swarovski crystals. The shoes were returned, but Krauss kept the crystal-covered phone. Weitzman chose Krauss to show off his fashions at the urging of his daughters, who are fans of Krauss' music.[64][65]

Discography

Main article: Alison Krauss discography

Filmography

Film
Year Film Role Notes
1997 Annabelle's Wish Additional Voices Uncredited
Voice only
2002 Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights Jennifer Voice only
Television
Year Film Role Notes
1991 Hee Haw Herself 1 episode
Episode: #22.21
1996 Austin City Limits Herself 5 episodes, 1996–2005
1997 Miracle on Highway 31 Herself TV movie
2005 Sesame Street Herself 1 episode
Episode: "American Fruit Stand"
2006 CMT Cross Country Performer with Vince Gill
2008 CMT Crossroads Performer with Robert Plant

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