Talk story about Alison Krauss and her bluegrass band, Union Station... Bluegrass music is enjoying a resurgence right now.
2: The bluegrass nightingale Alison Krauss swings by with her impeccable band, Union Station, featuring the Dobro virtuoso Jerry Douglas.
That's when the bluegrass fiddler Alison Krauss invited Ms. Brown to play banjo in her band, Union Station.
By Daniel Menaker The New Yorker, December 6 , 1999P. 54 Talk story about Alison Krauss and her bluegrass band, Union Station... Bluegrass music is enjoying a resurgence right now.
The New Yorker, December 6 , 1999P. 54 Talk story about Alison Krauss and her bluegrass band, Union Station... Bluegrass music is enjoying a resurgence right now.
At home in the US she is a major star, having sold more than 11m albums solo and with her band, Union Station; she has won more Grammys – 26 of them – than any other female artist.
That was 1995, and although she and her band, Union Station, were already famous in bluegrass circles, she was gaining much more widespread attention for a solo CD, "Now That I've Found You".
After her musical and commercial triumph with Robert Plant on the 2007 album "Raising Sand" — and, Mr. Plant has said, the beginnings of a sequel that were scrapped — she's back to plaintive with her string band, Union Station, on "Paper Airplane" (Rounder).
The event was due to feature indie-rock band Scouting For Girls, rapper Chipmunk, boy-band Union J and local X Factor finalist Sam Callahan and 3,000 tickets had been sold.
Indie-rock band Scouting For Girls were due to appear at the one-day festival, along with rapper Chipmunk, boy-band Union J and local X Factor finalist Sam Callahan.
Bands of Union men fought their way out of the hill counties to sign up.
