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Alison Krauss in session

Alison Krauss joins Bob Harris in session, discussing her latest album Windy City and playing live.

Alison Krauss joins Bob in session, discussing her latest album "Windy City" and playing live.

With her silky vocals, warm personality, and estimable skills as a fiddler, Alison Krauss helped bring bluegrass to a new audience with music that stayed true to the roots of the style while adding appeal for country and pop audiences. Blending bluegrass with folk and country accents, 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.

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. 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.

In 2013, Krauss began work on a solo album with producer Buddy Cannon, but between dealing with vocal problems and extensive touring with Union Station, it wasn't until 2017 that the album was released. A collection of classic tunes performed in the countrypolitan style, Windy City was also Krauss' first album for Capitol after a long association with Rounder.

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Thu 6 Apr 2017 19:00
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Music Played

  • Carl Perkins

    Matchbox

    • The Best of The Sun sessions.
    • Music Club.
    • 014.

  • Drake White

    Elvis

  • Sam Outlaw

    Tenderheart

    • Tenderheart.
    • Six Shooter/Thirty Tigers.
    • 004.

  • Tom Petty

    Free Fallin'

    • Tom Petty - Full Moon Fever.
    • MCA.

  • Tim McGraw & Faith Hill

    Speak To A Girl

    • Single.
    • Sony Music Entertainment.
    • 1.

  • Alison Krauss

    Dream Of Me

  • Nickel Creek

    Speak

  • Jon Pardi

    She Ain't In It

  • Miranda Lambert

    Covered Wagon

  • Jason Isbell

    Hope The High Road

    • Single.
    • Southeastern Records.Thirty Tigers.
    • 001.

  • Danni Nicholls

    A Little Redemption

Broadcast

  • Thu 6 Apr 2017 19:00
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2