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Alison Krauss & Union Station - Two Highways Audio CD

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Alison Krauss & Union Station Band: Alison Krauss & Union Station
Title: Two Highways
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Release Date: 1992-02-14
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Two Highways 2: I'm Alone Again 3: Wild Bill Jones 4: Beaumont Rag 5: Heaven's Bright Shore 6: Love You in Vain 7: Here Comes Goodbye 8: As Lovely as You 9: Windy City Rag 10: Lord Don't Forsake Me 11: Teardrops Will Kiss the Morning Dew 12: Midnight Rider

One of the great bluegrass albums
But this early effort was very strong in every respect. Although noone remains from this version of Union Station, this CD contains some fantastic stuff!! I agree with many folks here that Alison's recent recordings are overproduced with "softening" of the vocals. Get it. .


Along the Road to Fame
These were the days when Krauss was more famous as a fiddle wunderkind than a pop sensation, and when her voice sounded like a young Brenda Lee or Jimmy Martin's kid sister, rather than the limp but no doubt moneymaking dishrag it does today (Krauss's best contribution these days is her production work with new groups like Nickel Creek. I was lucky enough to see this young lady (and young she was!) on tour twice when this album had just come out, at the Kalamazoo State Theater along with Hot Rize!, another good old fashioned bluegrass treat. )

These songs. . . . none of which were written by Krauss herself, by the way. . . are fine examples of what in the eighties was termed "newgrass", a bluer than bluegrass, saucy treatment of American string band tradition. The best example might be Union Station's version of (wait for it) the Allman Brothers' "Midnight Rider", which as an Allmans fan I like better than the original. Many of the other songs are written by John Pennell, founder of the band, still a member, and one who can be credited with discovering Krauss' talent as early as five years before this disc was recorded.

The personnel of Union Station has morphed throughout the years, and a few of the songs are led vocally by musicians who are no longer in the band. But most are Krauss' babies, and she shows them off like a proud country mama. If you have never had a chance to hear Alison Krauss during her early years on the road, do check this, her solo album, or both, out. Your heart will leap to the whirlwind melodies, and you will thank yourself, believe me.


not my type
However, I am impressed that we found it at Amazon, my husband had been looking for a couple of the songs for a long long time. I ordered this for my husband, i am not familiar with the music here; i think i remember my uncle singing some of songs on this album.


unequalled since...
It was my introduction to AK and Union Station, and I have to say that nothing I've heard from them since has lived up to it. This is a great album, really extraordinary. It features her fiddle playing as much as her vocals, unlike some later albums, and doesn't have the sickly sweet quality of some later music. One of my top 10 favorite albums ever. Worth it just for Midnight Rider.


In her second album, Alison hits Full Stride
More of a "band" album than her debut, this one also features guitar phenom Jeff White on lead vocals on a few tunes and the instrumentals are among the best Alison has ever recorded, mainly due to Mr. Still only 17 in 1989 when this, her second album, was released, Alison Krauss made a mark that has kept her atop the heap in Bluegrass ever since. White's hot flat-picking. Old Beaumont Rag got a good workout here!

The album features both traditional material like "Wild Bill Jones" (sung by Jeff White - now performed exquisitely by Dan Tyminski in Alison's Band), and innovative arrangements of material from other genre's. The Allman Brother's "Midnight Flyer" gets turned from rhythmic yearning ballad into a banjo-driven barn burner, with vocals that soar and harmonies that are absolutely hair-raising.

Alyson's voice is noticeably smoother than in the debut album and I would guess it was about HERE that critics began saying that she had the voice of an angel.

I don't personally know what an angel sounds like, but it would be a HIGH compliment to say one sounded like Alison Krauss on "Two Highways".


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