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Alison Krauss & Union Station take "bluegrass back to the future" (Spin Magazine). Grammy, CMA (Country Music Association) and IBMA (International Bluegrass Music Association) award winners, this top-flight road and studio band serve up another stellar album, once again setting the standard in their field. Alison Krauss & Union Station rely on no gimmicks -- just down-home virtuosity and some of the loveliest, most heartfelt singing you're likely to hear.
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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful
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This is a superb album.The combination of expert ensemble playing,good songs and the perfect voice of Alison Krause came as a glorious and welcome surprise.I bought this CD because I had heard AK sing and wanted to hear more.I didn't expect to be so impressed by both her and Union Station.There isn't a poor track on this album.I am a new convert to bluegrass.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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So Long So Wrong was released in 1995 and to date marked the last true bluegrass album for Alison.
The album contains her usual mix of traditional bluegrass songs, more contemporary numbers, an instrumental where the band just let rip, truly traditional numbers sung by the male members of the band, including Dan Tyminsky (O'Brother Where Art Thou), and the album rounds off with a gospel number.
The album does not contain a bad song and even today it stands up stongly against her more contemporary recent releases.
The stand out track for me has to be 'Find My Way Back To My Heart.' This was the first Alison Krauss song I ever heard and from that day forward I was converted.
If you don't have this album it is really worth parting some money for. It's beautiful and well worth every penny.
The album contains her usual mix of traditional bluegrass songs, more contemporary numbers, an instrumental where the band just let rip, truly traditional numbers sung by the male members of the band, including Dan Tyminsky (O'Brother Where Art Thou), and the album rounds off with a gospel number.
The album does not contain a bad song and even today it stands up stongly against her more contemporary recent releases.
The stand out track for me has to be 'Find My Way Back To My Heart.' This was the first Alison Krauss song I ever heard and from that day forward I was converted.
If you don't have this album it is really worth parting some money for. It's beautiful and well worth every penny.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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I am a longstanding fan of Irish Traditional Music and so, when I was standing in a Birmingham record store quite a few years back and my ear caught the sound of "Happiness", I immediately asked the assistant the name of the band. I couldn't believe my ears at the clear and clean perfection of the sound. I've known this CD for a number of years and yet it always sounds virtually as fresh as the first time I heard it, very unusual for music which can be easily remembered - at least for me!
One of the clever things about this CD is the way the softer songs are interspersed with the more boisterous numbers. The first song `So Long So wrong' is a kind of compromise, but the lively songs, complete with Ron Block's fast banjo picking and (mostly) Adam Steffey's mandolin, are `No Place to Hide' (Adam Steffey vocals), `The Road Is a Lover', `I'll Remember You Love in My Prayers' and `Blue Trail of Sorrow' (Dan Tyminski vocals), Little Liza Jane (a short speed-record breaking instrumental), and `Pain of a Troubled Life' (Ron Block vocals). All the others are softer Alison Krauss vocals. The last song, written by Ron Block, has a Gospel song, `There Is a Reason', a very moving close to this collection.
This is the last AKUS album to include Adam Steffey, whose mandolin playing is extraordinary. Playing at phenomenal speed, every note is pure and clean. I've never heard anything like it from any other mandolin player of repute. Out of this world!
I have four AKUS albums, all of them of the highest quality and some with songs which, individually, surpass some of the songs on this album. Yet, in spite of this, I still find `So Long So Wrong' the best AKUS album overall and the one which can be played most without tiring. This is probably a good reason why I thought to review it now after so long.
One of the clever things about this CD is the way the softer songs are interspersed with the more boisterous numbers. The first song `So Long So wrong' is a kind of compromise, but the lively songs, complete with Ron Block's fast banjo picking and (mostly) Adam Steffey's mandolin, are `No Place to Hide' (Adam Steffey vocals), `The Road Is a Lover', `I'll Remember You Love in My Prayers' and `Blue Trail of Sorrow' (Dan Tyminski vocals), Little Liza Jane (a short speed-record breaking instrumental), and `Pain of a Troubled Life' (Ron Block vocals). All the others are softer Alison Krauss vocals. The last song, written by Ron Block, has a Gospel song, `There Is a Reason', a very moving close to this collection.
This is the last AKUS album to include Adam Steffey, whose mandolin playing is extraordinary. Playing at phenomenal speed, every note is pure and clean. I've never heard anything like it from any other mandolin player of repute. Out of this world!
I have four AKUS albums, all of them of the highest quality and some with songs which, individually, surpass some of the songs on this album. Yet, in spite of this, I still find `So Long So Wrong' the best AKUS album overall and the one which can be played most without tiring. This is probably a good reason why I thought to review it now after so long.
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Alison Krauss
Typical Alison Krauss CD. Fantastic recording for all Alison Krauss fans. Well made and received well within the agreed time limit
Published 5 months ago by stuart hill
AKUS, now that I've found you, I can't let you go...
I'm working backwards, from the latest stuff. In this case, the virtuoso dobro player (Jerry Douglas) has yet to join and the virtuoso mandolin player (Adam Steffey) has yet to... Read more
Published 10 months ago by Teemacs
loved this from play one and still loving it
I am new to country music and bluegrass and chose this because of other reviews. I have not been disappointed. The vocals are clear and melodies sweet. Read more
Published 19 months ago by iainm2
upbeat & downbeat and damn good ..
I Bought New favorite and lonely runs both ways about 12 months ago, I decided that I preferred 'New Favorite' as lonely runs both ways was a touch too sweet for me. Read more
Published on 1 Feb 2010 by M. J. Rose
BLUEGRASS YOU DON'T SNORT AT
Three men with dodgy facial hair, and one clean-shaven other join the ever-so attractive blonde lead female vocalist Alison Krauss (obviously clean-shaven! Read more
Published on 10 Mar 2003 by Mr. Richard J. Carter
Not as good as the others, but passable
This CD is good but it's not anything compared to her earlyer CDs. I don't have any major complaint other than the laberling of the songs on the back of the box. Read more
Published on 18 April 2001 by "tallymcque"
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