I've been a musician for around 35-36yrs and seldomly have heard someone with such pitch control over strong & exacting notes like this. And lawd have mercy, she's got some set of pipes on her! I met her and Dan Tyminsky back around 2004 when she opened for Willie Nelson on a summer package tour in Greenville SC. She's so polite and soft spoken. You wouldn't immediately think she could belt 'em out like that, because she's so petite, but that all changes when she sings.
Listen up you all,shut up talking about her looks.She looked great back then and she looks even better right now.And what a talented singer with such a great voice.
I was born and raised in Georgia and my family lives in Atlanta. Every time I'm driving to ATL from New Orleans to visit them, I listen to this song. It's tradition.
Right on chiaarabocelli. I saw her in ~1989 in the basement of the Natural History Museum in Wash DC. She was plain jane, painfully shy, could barely speak to the audience. She hid behind her fiddle. She opened her mouth to sing and we all fell in love with her. We were the Lucky Ones. Long way from then to now -- see her video with Robert Plant, Gone, Gone, Gone.
I heard this song when I was 6 and new right away that I wanted to be a singer! She is my first and best inspiration. I love you Allison and God bless!
Yeah, well I think they all look great! Especially Jerry Douglas! Total hottie! Alison looks great too. Looking at them here makes me think..."Ahhhh...they were all little babies once weren't they." Barry Bales, I mean look at him! Can we asay uhdorable! Jerry Douglas is still hot even now! And Ron Block hasn't even aged. They're all awesome and what they look like sure aint important when they make the music they make.
I was a fan of Alison back when she was a pleasingly plump redhead...I didn't care about her outer shell...it was her music within in her that I admired. Then when she was transformed in that slick packaging and became more mass-market appealing....that's when everyone else...not just those who liked great music....discovered her.
Alison has a voice that STICKS in my mind LONG after the song is over!! It overwhelms me. Like no other singer. 1). Alison Krauss 2). Emmylou Harris 3). Norah Jones 4). Bonnie Raitt ...... ALL of these girls have that effect on me. Alison Krauss (please notice) I placed in the number "1" spot.
Her singing has improved over the years. She's such a good fiddler, I wish more of her stuff -- then and now -- would feature her abilities as a fiddler.
My Favorite song by Allison. I love this. It always gives me joy. The problem is I only have a cassette to listen to and no cassette player. lol I will get the cd soon. I love you Allison Krause ! ! ! ! ! !
I remember my dad had an album of hers when I was in middle school, and her vocals were soo impressive! Then I found out later she also had videos of entire concerts so I ordered one, and was blown away even more how she maintains such control like that is beyond me
Don't tell the band Bad Company that I like Allison's version more than their's even though it's their song. Everytime I hear this I get homesick for the place I grew up...Georgia. Geez, I can visualize the red clay and smell those magnolias.
OK all you Aussies. Check out a couple of your country men/women. Look up the Greencards started by two Aussies and a Brit. Some of the smokinest bluegrass music ever.
Alison has always stood on her own talent and looks, she never tryed to look like or sound like Patsy, what one dumb statement below. This woman is so talented omg who cant see that , plus she gets better looking each year.
Thank you so much for putting this up! My role model sounds so good here! I love to watch her early performances! God bless you and her always!!! Holly in East Tennessee
Lucky for us Alison liked rock music and chose to cover this Bad Company song. Alison should have toured with Paul Rodgers and not that hag Robert Plant. Paul Rodgers is just about my all time favorite singer and then take someone like Alison Krauss and you've got the makings of one of the best duos that we've never heard.
Went commercial? She has been singing and touring since she was 14 .just because people buy her records in large quantities doesn't mean she is "sold out,".she and the band union station has always considered the music and the song to be the reason for what they do .monetary considerations for not dictate what they do or don't do.nothing wrong with getting paid for what you love doing as far as I am concerned
True, but she is near perfect in voice and face and body now! Money and public exposure, advisors, etc., etc., etc. can help a person become more refined and more appealing in every way!
@flashtwobeards well i am just sayin- that adam was out and jerry was in. both were great-- it i had to decide--i would pick----and the winner goes to ---------ADAM STEFFEY. but he went on to record with the dixie chicks-that is a pretty good resume-
That mandolin player would be replaced by Dan Tyminski. I have some of the old Akus live shows and the studio albums and I liked the original mandolin player as well.
@Rcksaltnnails I think she's pretty damn hot now ! Jusy show's how she has blossomed with age like a fine wine . Glad she lost the perm though..... Oh! and her voice is amazin' as well ; )
Oh come on, she's got so much going for her, to recommend her, do you (or did you) really care about how she makes herself up?---such a minor matter. I don't think you do, actually. You admire her, surely, and so do I.
No----if you had even bothered to read what I've written, you would have known that wasn't it. Please go back and read it again. By the way, it's "SHE and Patrick Bergeson...."
@ytdsgdjgfueyxn537 I see your point to an extent but I know that I a not avoiding reality. I came to this sight to listen to music for it to take me away for a moment from reality. Is that so wrong to forget for the moment, to get lost in the music the sound of her voice, and to read like minds who enjoy her music, not to read about people arguing, or "debating" about polotics? I live with the reality of things every day, I am analytical and like a good debate, but not about our differences.
@ctune1 Wow isn't it funny how you can own an album listen to it until you wear the grooves out and still remember wrong . And I sounded so convincing I probably made somebody else get it wrong as well . I sure had me fooled .
Of course I admire her, always have. It's just that after she bleeched her hair, lost her baby fat, and became something of a sex symbol, everybody found out about our "secret"!
I say more power to her and her band if they aren't strictly bluegrass. That is a terribly constricted style of music. Bluegrass players only play in the key of G. There is a limited number of licks they can do, so they have to prove their musicality by pure speed of picking. And singing through the nose! It's "lowest common denominator music" - music of a limited cultural outlook and limited music styles, like gypsy jazz or gangsta rap. Look up "gangstagrass." It proves my point.
Yeah, she's talented, but what is she doing singing "Oh Atlanta" which is not a bluegrass song ??? Why does her band put up with that ? There's millions of great bluegrass songs and she has to pick a pet song that's not even bluegrass !!!
@ytdsgdjgfueyxn537 I see your point to an extent but I know that I a not avoiding reality. I came to that sight to listen to music for it to take me away for a moment from reality. Is that so wrong to forget for the moment, to get lost in the music the sound of her voice, and to read like minds who enjoy her music, not to read about people arguing, or "debating" about polotics? I live with the reality of things every day, I am analytical and like a good debate, but not about our differences.
