Alison Krauss

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Alison Krauss is the powerhouse in front of the band Alison Krauss & Union Station. A bluegrass singer and virtuoso fiddle player who grew up in Champaign, Illinois, Krauss signed with Rounder Records at 14, released her first album Too Late To Cry at age 16 and now counts 10 studio records to her name. Alison Krauss is the winner of 21 Grammy awards, making her The Recording Academy’s most honored female recording artist.

In addition to her work on movie soundtracks such as O Brother, Where Art Thou? and Cold Mountain, Alison is also a record producer (Nickel Creek, The Cox Family, Alan Jackson) and has contributed as an instrumentalist or vocalist on albums of every genre-classical, jazz, pop, country, bluegrass and even polka.

In 2007 she made ‘Raising Sand’ with Robert Plant, the lead singer of Led Zeppelin -they are touring together this year.

O Brother, Where Art Thou?
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Now That I've Found You: A Collection
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A Hundred Miles Or More: A Collection
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Forget About It
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Top Tracks

1	Down To The River To Pray full track	1,190
2	When You Say Nothing At All full track	522
3	Baby, Now That I've Found You full track	262
4	The Scarlet Tide full track	210
5	You Will Be My Ain True Love	205
6	Baby Mine full track	171
7	Stay full track	160
8	That Kind of Love full track	150
9	It Doesn't Matter full track	148
10	I Will full track	142
11	Forget About It full track	140
12	Every Time You Say Goodbye full track	134
13	Maybe full track	118
14	Sleep On full track	107
15	Simple Love full track	106

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abdullah_farrag wrote:
last week

i just love her

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gratefulmolly wrote:
last week

just saw her tonight in golden gate park, soooo amazing

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giselej wrote:
last week

Biggest fan ever xD

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iikozen wrote:
last week

I love her gifted voice and music!!!

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TheAcidQueen_x wrote:
last month

BOOOOOOO, she ruined the Raising Sand album. Her music is boring anyway.

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ffion_nia wrote:
last month

ahhhhh. lovely

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Lexus11180 wrote:
last month

I really want to see her live :(

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elsmarie wrote:
last month

love this artist ..

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cbcountry wrote:
August 2008

one of the best artist out there seen three times live want to see 3 more times.

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ogu49 wrote:
August 2008

simplemente fascinante

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taobliss wrote:
July 2008

That voice is haunting and she plays fiddle too....

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RodeoRich wrote:
July 2008

When Allison Krauss sings you get a glimpse of what it must sound like in heaven. She has the most beautiful voice on the planet!!

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balintd wrote:
July 2008

down to the river to pray is awesome...and the scene in the movie "o brother, where art thou" with this song is one of the most beautiful scenes ever

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jewleesings wrote:
July 2008

alison krauss brings up so many lovely memories<3

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musiclive999 wrote:
May 2008

I love covering her songs with my acoustic band, what a great voice and love those musicians in Union Station!

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Caesaria82 wrote:
May 2008

Restless <3

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Elleebelle wrote:
April 2008

Allison and Robert Plant are perfection together~fantastic show!

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Kai_Master wrote:
April 2008

When You Say Nothing At All is one of my top songs in my romantic playlist. ^^ I never read the lyrics, I hope it is really romantic! lol

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Jodi_Ann wrote:
March 2008

Since you like Alison, You may like this as well! http://www.last.fm/music/Jodi+Ann

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soaree wrote:
March 2008

she's been a regular on my playlists since many years ago.. damn that makes me feel old. I've also addicted many people with her songs. she's the only musician I am gettin' the web-newspaper from.. pisses me off that she only does american tours tho. >.< (as far as I know).. I recommend her to anyone. and their mothers too. and their better halves. :P haha /p ^^

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