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Alison Krauss (born July 23, 1971) is a renowned American bluegrass/country singer and fiddle player. She entered the music industry at a young age, winning local contests by the age of ten and recording for the first time on her brother's album at fourteen. She signed with Rounder Records in 1985 and released her first solo album at sixteen in 1987. She was invited to join the band with which she still performs, Alison Krauss & Union Station (AKUS), and later released her first album with th...Read More >
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The sound on Alison Krauss + Union Station Live is nothing short of state of the art. The Sony DSD recording process is simply the most transparent and least colored methodology currently available. Chief engineer Larry Paczosa, assisted by Neal Cappellino, Tracy Martinson, Eric Bickel, Thomas Johnson, and K.C.Groves, captured the pristine quality of Alison Krauss and Union Station’s live show. Frank Edmundson, their road manager and house sound engineer who recently passed away at age 49, was renown in bluegrass circles as one of the best live sound guys around. The sonics on Alison Krauss + Union Station Live give you a taste of just how good amplified music can sound when done well.
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Alison Krauss has been wowing audiences since she first signed a record deal with Rounder at the tender age of 14! Her first album was released two years later, and it's been success after success whether recording with her band Union Station, or as a solo artist. She's won 13 Grammy Awards, joined the Grand Old Opry cast in 1993, and has recently turned to producing with three albums for the Cox Family, a Nickel Creek CD and a single for Reba McEntire under her belt. Now she is conquering the video market. LIVE was issued as both a double CD and as a deluxe two DVD set. The first DVD consists of the complete concert, filmed at the Louisville Palace in Louisville, Kentucky and the second disc includes features like interviews, behind the scenes footage, photos, a discography and a video all easily accessible and intuitive.
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Alison Krauss is largely responsible for bringing Bluegrass music to wider audiences. Blending Bluegrass' rustic instrumentation with Folk-Pop songwriting sensibilities, Krauss succeeds in fusing tradition with innovation to create lush, textured songs that stick in your head like a commercial jingle (without any of the annoying Chinese-water-torture aspects that commercials induce). Her soft voice floats around her songs in the same way Joni Mitchell's does on Blue. Krauss' harmonies are caramel-coated with the assistance of the Cox Family singers, her loyal Union Station band, mandolin player Sam Bush, pianist Matt Rollings, and drummer Jim Keltner.
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Alison Krauss was born in Decatur, Illinois, but was raised in Champaign, Illinois.[3] She began studying classical violin at five years old but soon switched to bluegrass. Krauss said she first became involved with music because her "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 age eight she started entering local talent contests, and at ten she had her own band. At twelve she won the Texas State Fiddle Championship; at thirteen 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. 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]
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Alison Krauss, at the age of 33, has achieved more career milestones than most people do in their lifetime. Her first album was released when she was 16. She has released ten studio albums, all on Rounder Records, with her long time band of highly acclaimed musicians, Union Station.
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