Profile of Alison Krauss on Famous Like Me

Alison Krauss (born on July 23, 1971 in Decatur, Illinois), is a bluegrass singer and virtuoso fiddle player who grew up in Champaign, Illinois. Krauss has had several platinum-selling albums, has received seventeen Grammy Awards (more than any other woman in the history of the Grammys), and been a featured performer in the Oscars. In 1995 she was awarded Female Vocalist of the Year by the Country Music Association.

A protégé of Bill Monroe, her music has wide appeal, beyond its traditional popularity within country and folk circles. Best known for her work on the O Brother, Where Art Thou? movie soundtrack, as well as its companion album, Down from the Mountain, Krauss's music is also featured prominently on the Cold Mountain soundtrack, for which she was nominated for an Oscar. Her band, Union Station, is a traditional bluegrass ensemble, but Krauss is not a complete purist, having covered songs by, among others, the Beatles. Union Station are: Barry Bales (bass, harmony vocals), Ron Block (banjo, guitar, lead & harmony vocals), Jerry Douglas (dobro), and Dan Tyminski (acoustic guitar, mandolin, lead & harmony vocals).

Discography

• Different Strokes 1985
• Too Late to Cry 1987
• Two Highways 1989
• I've Got That Old Feeling 1990
• Every Time You Say Goodbye 1992
• I Know Who Holds Tomorrow (with The Cox Family) 1994
• Now That I've Found You: A Collection 1995
• So Long So Wrong 1997
• Forget About It 1999
• New Favorite 2001
• Live 2002
• Lonely Runs Both Ways 2004

Samples

• Download sample of "Down to the River to Pray" from the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack

Grammy Awards

• 2003 Best Country Collaboration with Vocals: James Taylor & Alison Krauss for How's The World Treating You
• 2003 Best Bluegrass Album: Alison Krauss & Union Station for Live
• 2003 Best Country Instrumental Performance: Alison Krauss & Union Station for Cluck Old Hen
• 2002 Best Contemporary Folk Album: Nickel Creek, artist, Alison Krauss, producer.
• 2001 Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal: Alison Krauss & Union Station for The Lucky One
• 2001 Best Bluegrass Album: Gary Paczosa (engineer) & Alison Krauss & Union Station (producers and artists) for New Favorite
• 2001 Album of the Year: for O Brother, Where Art Thou? - soundtrack
• 1998 Best Country Collaboration with Vocals: Alison Krauss, Clint Black, Dwight Yoakam, Earl Scruggs, Emmylou Harris, Joe Diffie, Marty Stuart, Merle Haggard, Pam Tillis, Patty Loveless, Randy Travis, Ricky Skaggs & Travis Tritt,artists, for Same Old Train
• 1997 Best Bluegrass Album: Alison Krauss & Union Station for So Long So Wrong
• 1997 Best Country Instrumental Performance: Alison Krauss & Union Station for Little Liza Jane
• 1997 Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal: Alison Krauss & Union Station for Looking in the Eyes of Love
• 1996 Best Country Collaboration with Vocals: Alison Krauss & Union Station & Vince Gill for High Lonesome Sound
• 1996 Best Female Country Vocal Performance: for Baby, Now That I've Found You
• 1995 Best Country Collaboration with Vocals: Alison Krauss & Shenandoah for Somewhere in the Vicinity of the Heart
• 1994 Best Southern Gospel, Country Gospel Or Bluegrass Gospel Album: Alison Krauss & Cox Family (Evelyn Cox, Lynn Cox, Sidney Cox, Suzanne Cox, Willard Cox) for I Know Who Holds Tomorrow
• 1992 Best Bluegrass Album: Alison Krauss & Union Station for Every Time You Say Goodbye
• 1990 Best Bluegrass Album: Alison Krauss for I've Got That Old Feeling

From the Grammy awards web site

Country Music Association Awards

• 2004 Music Video of the Year: Whiskey Lullaby (directed by Rick Schroder)
• 2004 Musical Event of the Year: Whiskey Lullaby (Brad Paisley and Alison Krauss)
• 2001 Album of the Year: O Brother, Where Art Thou? - Mercury
• 1995 Female Vocalist of the Year
• 1995 Vocal Event of the Year: Somewhere In The Vicinity of the Heart (Alison Krauss and Shenandoah)
• 1995 Horizon Award
• 1995 Single of the Year: When You Say Nothing At All - BNA

From CMA Awards List for Alison Krauss

International Bluegrass Music Association Awards

• 2004 Recorded Event of the Year: Joe Nichols, Rhonda Vincent, Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell, James Taylor, Alison Krauss, Vince Gill, Terri Clark, Merle Haggard, Carl Jackson, Ronnie Dunn, Rebecca Lynn Howard, Glen Campbell, Leslie Satcher, Kathy Louvin, Pamela Brown Hayes, Linda Ronstadt, Patty Loveless, Jon Randall, Harley Allen, Dierks Bentley, Larry Cordle, Jerry Salley, Dolly Parton, Sonya Isaacs, Marty Stuart, Del McCoury, Pam Tillis, Johnny Cash & the Jordanaires for Livin’ Lovin’ Losin: Songs of the Louvin Brothers
• 2003 Album of the Year: Alison Krauss + Union Station for Live
• 2002 Album of the Year: Fairfield Four, John Hartford, Alison Krauss + Union Station, Dan Tyminski, The Cox Family, Gillian Welch, David Rawlings, The Whites, Chris Thomas King with Colin Linden, and Emmylou Harris for Down from the Mountain
• 2001 Album of the Year: Norman Blake, James Carter & The Prisoners, The Cox Family, Fairfield Four, Emmylou Harris, John Hartford, Chris Thomas King, Alison Krauss, Harry McClintock, The Peasall Sisters, The Soggy Bottom Boys, Ralph Stanley, The Stanley Brothers, Gillian Welch, The Whites for O Brother, Where Art Thou? - soundtrack
• 2001 Gospel Recorded Performance of the Year: Alison Krauss + Union Station for Live
• 1995 Song of the Year: Vince Gill with Alison Krauss & Gillian Welch for High I'll Fly Away from O Brother, Where Art Thou?
• 1995 Entertainer of the Year
• 1995 Female Vocalist of the Year
• 1993 Female Vocalist of the Year
• 1993 Album of the Year: Every Time You Say Goodbye
• 1991 Female Vocalist of the Year
• 1991 Entertainer of the Year
• 1990 Female Vocalist of the Year

Other Awards

• 2005 CMT Music Awards: Collaborative Video of the Year category for Alison Krauss and Brad Paisley for their duet Whiskey Lullaby
• 2005 Academy of Country Music Awards: Vocal Event of the Year: Alison Krauss and Brad Paisley for Whiskey Lullaby
• 2005 Academy of Country Music Awards: Video of the Year: Alison Krauss and Brad Paisley for Whiskey Lullaby
• 2000 Canadian Country Music Award, Vocal/Instrumental Collaboration with Natalie Mac Master for Get Me Through December
• 1998 Dove Award (Gospel Music Association), Bluegrass Recorded Song of the Year with Fernando Ortega for Children of the Living God

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