Alison Krauss

Alison Krauss (2007)

Alison Krauss (born July 23, 1971 in Decatur , Illinois ) is an American singer, violinist and fiddle player who has significantly influenced bluegrass music since the 1990s. She also works as a producer. In her career, Krauss has received 27 Grammys so far , making her the artist with the most awards, ahead of Beyoncé (22) and Aretha Franklin (18).

biography

Krauss learned to play the violin at the age of five and took classical music lessons. However, she soon got tired of classical music and was enthusiastic about country and bluegrass licks . At the age of eight, she began participating in talent competitions in and around her hometown of Champaign, Illinois . Two years later she had her own band. In 1984 she won the Illinois State Fiddle Championship as in the two following years. The Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass in America named her the "Most Promising Fiddler" in the Midwest. She was sponsored by the Father of Bluegrass, Bill Monroe .

Alison Krauss made her recording debut in 1985 on an album by her brother Viktor, which he had recorded with Jim Hoiles and Bruce Weiss. It's called Different Strokes and was released on the independent Fiddle Tunes label. Krauss released his first own album, Too Late To Cry , in 1987 at the age of 16. In Europe she was particularly popular with her work on the soundtrack for the film O Brother, Where Art Thou? known in 2000. In 2005 her duet Whiskey Lullaby with Brad Paisley was named "Song of the Year" at the CMA Awards .

Krauss has been working with the backing band Union Station for many years , consisting of Dan Tyminski ( guitar , vocals ), Ron Block ( banjo , guitar, vocals), Jerry Douglas ( Dobro ) and Barry Bales (bass, vocals). In addition, Krauss is also active as a producer, u. a. for the bluegrass bands Nickel Creek and The Cox Family and for Alan Jackson .

In 2007, Alison Krauss met the former Led Zeppelin singer , Robert Plant , while preparing for a joint contribution to a “Tribute to Leadbelly ” concert. This collaboration resulted in a joint music project that resulted in the album Raising Sand in October 2007 . It won five Grammys in 2009.

Bertram Eisenhauer rated the work of Alison Krauss in 2011 in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung :

"Not knowing Alison Krauss and her music is detrimental to mental health, and yet the thirty-nine-year-old is not well known outside of her American homeland."

- Bertram Eisenhauer : FAZ from May 5, 2011

Awards

• In addition to her 27 Grammys, she also received nine CMA Awards and 14 International Bluegrass Music Awards .
• In 2012 she received an honorary doctorate in music from Berklee College of Music .

Discography

Studio albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)						Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US	Country
1990	I've Got That Old Feeling	-	-	-	-	-	Country61 (10 weeks) Country	First published: June 13, 1990
1999	Forget About It	-	-	-	UK77 (2 weeks) UK	US60 gold (8 weeks)US	Country5 (95 weeks) Country	First published: August 3, 1999
2017	Windy City	DE66 (1 week) DE	-	CH72 (1 week) CH	UK6 (4 weeks) UK	US9 (6 weeks) US	Country1 (8 weeks) Country	First published: February 17, 2017

more publishments

• 1985: Different Strokes
• 1987: Too Late To Cry

With Union Station

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)						Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US	Country
1992	Every Time You Say Goodbye	-	-	-	-	-	Country75 (1 week) Country	First published: February 14, 1992
1997	So Long So Wrong	-	-	-	-	US45 gold (14 weeks)US	Country4 (57 weeks) Country	First published: March 25, 1997
2001	New Favorite	-	-	-	UK72 (1 week) UK	US35 gold (53 weeks)US	Country3 (104 weeks) Country	First published: August 14, 2001
2002	live	-	-	-	-	US36 × 2 Double platinum (70 weeks)US	Country9 (104 weeks) Country	First release: November 5th, 2002 live album
2004	Lonely Runs Both Ways	-	-	-	-	US29 gold (30 weeks)US	Country6 (92 weeks) Country	First published: November 23, 2004
2011	Paper airplane	DE51 (2 weeks) DE	-	-	UK11 silver (8 weeks)UK	US3 (21 weeks) US	Country1 (63 weeks) Country	First published: April 12, 2011

more publishments

• 1989: Two Highways

Compilations

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)						Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US	Country
1995	Now That I've Found You: A Collection	-	-	-	UK- silver UK	US13 × 2 Double platinum (66 weeks)US	Country2 (104 weeks) Country	First published: February 7, 1995
2007	A Hundred Miles or More: A Collection	-	-	-	UK38 silver (5 weeks)UK	US10 gold (45 weeks)US	Country3 (78 weeks) Country	First published: April 3, 2007
2009	Essential	-	-	-	UK13 silver (6 weeks)UK	-	-	First published: July 21, 2009

more publishments

• 2005: Home on the Highways: Band Picked Favorites

Collaborations

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)						Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US	Country
2007	Raising sand	DE28 (10 weeks) DE	AT31 (3 weeks) AT	CH33 (17 weeks) CH	UK2 × 2 Double platinum (63 weeks)UK	US2 platinum (72 weeks)US	Country2 (79 weeks) Country	First published: October 23, 2007 with Robert Plant

more publishments

• 1994: I Know Who Holds Tomorrow (with The Cox Family )

Video albums

• 2002: Live (US:platinum)
• 2004: Down From The Mountain
• 2009: A Hundred Miles Or More: Live From The Tracking Room

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)						Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US	Country
1991	Steel Rails I've Got That Old Feeling	-	-	-	-	-	Country73 (1 week) Country
1995	When You Say Nothing at All Keith Whitley: A Tribute Album	-	-	-	UK81 (1 week) UK	US53 gold (18 weeks)US	Country3 (20 weeks) Country	First published: April 1995 with Union Station
	Baby Now That I've Found You Now That I've Found You: A Collection	-	-	-	UK95 (1 week) UK	-	Country49 (13 weeks) Country	First published: August 1995
1997	Find My Way Back to My Heart So Long, So Wrong	-	-	-	-	-	Country73 (2 weeks) Country	with Union Station
1999	Forget About It Forget About It	-	-	-	-	-	Country67 (4 weeks) Country
2001	The Lucky One New Favorite	-	-	-	-	-	Country46 (16 weeks) Country
2004	Restless Lonely Runs Both Ways	-	-	-	-	-	Country36 (20 weeks) Country
2007	Missing You A Hundred Miles or More: A Collection	-	-	-	-	-	Country34 (21 weeks) Country	with John Waite
The following songs did not appear as single, but were made available for download and streaming through the album and were thus able to achieve a placement:
2003	Coat of Many Colors Just Because I'm a Woman: Songs of Dolly Parton	-	-	-	-	-	Country57 (2 weeks) Country	with Shania Twain
2005	Shimmy Down the Chimney Shimmy Down the Chimney: A Country Christmas	-	-	-	-	-	Country58 (1 week) Country

more publishments

• 1991: I've Got That Old Feeling
• 1992: Heartstrings (with Union Station)
• 1992: New Fool (with Union Station)
• 1993: Every Time You Say Goodbye (with Union Station)
• 1996: Baby Mine
• 1997: Looking in the Eyes of Love (with Union Station)
• 1999: Stay
• 2000: Maybe
• 2002: Let Me Touch You for a While
• 2002: New Favorite
• 2003: How's the World Treating You (with James Taylor )
• 2003: Every Time You Say Goodbye (with Union Station)
• 2005: Goodbye Is All We Have
• 2006: If I Didn't Know Any Better
• 2007: Simple Love
• 2008: Shadows (with Tony Rice )
• 2011: Paper Airplane (with Union Station)
• 2012: My Love Follows You Where You Go " (with Union Station)

Guest Posts

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)						Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US	Country
1994	Teach Your Children Red Hot + Country	-	-	-	-	-	Country75 (1 week) Country	with The Red Hots
1995	Somewhere in the Vicinity of the Heart In the Vicinity of the Heart	-	-	-	-	-	Country7 (20 weeks) Country	with Shenandoah
1997	It's Not Over Thank God for Believers	-	-	-	-	-	Country34 (13 weeks) Country	with Mark Chesnutt & Vince Gill
1998	Same old train	-	-	-	-	-	Country59 (5 weeks) Country	with various artists
1999	Buy Me a Rose She Rides Wild Horses	-	-	-	-	US40 (20 weeks) US	Country1 (37 weeks) Country	First published: October 1999 with Kenny Rogers & Billy Dean
2004	Whiskey Lullaby Mud on the Tires	-	-	-	-	US41 × 2 Double platinum (18 weeks)US	Country3 (24 weeks) Country	First published: March 2004 with Brad Paisley
2006	The Reason Why These Days	-	-	-	-	-	Country28 (25 weeks) Country	with Vince Gill

more publishments

• 1994: Walk Over God's Heaven (with The Cox Family)
• 1997: Whenever I Call You Friend (with Michael Johnson )
• 1999: Get Me Through December (with Natalie MacMaster)
• 2007: Gone, Gone, Gone (Done Moved On) (with Robert Plant)
• 2007: Stick With Me Baby (with Robert Plant)
• 2008: Please Read the Letter (with Robert Plant)
• 2008: Rich Woman (with Robert Plant)
• 2012: I Just Come Here for the Music (with Don Williams )
• 2014: Blue Blue Day (with Mandy Barnett)
• 2016: Come Find Me (with Alabama )
• 2017: How I Want To Be (with Sundance Head)
• 2018: Love Heals (with Levi Hummon)

Soundtracks

• 1997: It Doesn't Matter ( Buffy the Vampire Slayer )
• 2003: O Brother, Where Art Thou? ( O Brother, Where Art Thou? )
• 2003: Mona Lisa's Smile ( Mona Lisa's Smile )
• 2004: In Search Of Cold Mountain ( Cold Mountain ) (Song: You Will Be My Ain True Love )

Web links

Commons : Alison Krauss  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website

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1. ↑ https://www.grammy.com/grammys/artists/alison-krauss
2. ↑ Krauss in front of Beyoncé and Aretha Franklin ( Memento from February 8, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
3. ^ Roberta A. Johnson: Shelbyville - "The Fiddle Capitol of Illinois" for 50 years. Shelbyville Daily Union, accessed January 26, 2015 . 
4. ↑ ^{a b} Bertram Eisenhauer: She can even become coquettish. FAZ, May 5, 2011, accessed on November 4, 2015 . 
5. ↑ http://www.cmaworld.com/cma-awards/50awards-old/past-winners/?appSession=83G5D7LS2L68ZGFV5PL470TR8R2SK720C9C5J1GW32PZ9N588L2G2033WY9N03HE50S4L10M9OM7AO21G59RTWPKUZQYMMZ7CG14ZM12X080675W7FIVSU13G4671H51  ( page no longer available , searching web archives )  Info: The link is automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20090223141121/http://www.ibma.org/ibma.awards/recipients/index.asp
7. ↑ Laudation (YouTube)
8. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
9. ↑ Music Sales Awards: UK US