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Alison Krauss and Union Station is a group fronted by Alison Krauss. Alison Krauss is a legend within music; she is the most awarded female artist, the most awarded singer and the second most awarded artist overall in Grammy history with around 27 Grammy Awards in a career hardly spanning slightly over two decades – a fact that makes her a singer on the very top of the list of artists to view at a live performance, provided you have Alison Krauss and Union Station tickets at hand. She usually plays with the band Union Station, and they are collectively termed as Alison Krauss and Union Station.

Born on the 23 rd of July in 1971, Alison Krauss is a singer from within the bluegrass-country genre as well as a songwriter and a fiddler of immense rapport. She began performing at a young age, and won various local contests when she was ten years old. She recorded her first album after being signed on by Rounder Records in 1985 at an age of fourteen. Alison Krauss joined the band Union Station, collectively known as Alison Krauss and Union Station with the group releasing its first album in 1989, four years after releasing her solo debut album was released. All in all, Alison Krauss has released around eleven albums, performed on various movie soundtracks and been responsible for the renewal of interest in the bluegrass genre in the US.

In terms of soundtracks, she has released the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack album, an album that further helped raise popularity for the bluegrass genre as well as the soundtrack for movie Cold Mountain, for which she performed at the Academy Awards in 2004. Alison Krauss began studying classical music at an age of five but shifted to bluegrass when she found that she was interest in it. At 8, she was singing in local contests and at an age of 10 had her very own band. At an age of 13, she managed to win the Walnut Valley Festival Fiddle Championship so much so that the Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass in America awarded her the title of the Most Promising Fiddler in the Midwest. In fact, she met most of the members of Union Station at these festivals in which she performed.

Her first band, at an age of 12 was Silver Rail alongwith songwriter bassist, John Penell. He later formed the band Union Station and asked Alison Krauss to perform in this band as a fiddler. Her debut album at an age of 16 was Too Late to Cry and the band Union Station acted as the backup band for the album’s music. Union Station and Alison Krauss released their first album two years later, titled as Two Highways in 1989. A year later saw the release of her second album, I’ve Got That Old Feeling, an album that peaked at 75 on the Billboard Country charts. She also earned her first Grammy Award for the album, and the single I’ve Got That Old Feeling was her first music video.

Alongwith Union Station band members, drummer and percussionist Larry Atamanuik, Bassist Barry Bales, guitarist and banjo player Ron Block, dobro player Jerry Douglas and guitarist and mandolin player Dan Tyminski with her acting as the lead vocalist, fiddler and viola player, AKUS’s second album was released in 1992 and resulted in her winning the Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album in 1992. She then worked on a number of collaborations with other artists. 1995 saw the release of a compilation of some of her older work and covers of various songs, covers that became part of movies and even reached No. 5 on the Billboard Country Charts. The album itself peaked at 15 on the Billboard 200 chart as well as selling t Million copies and achiving a double platinum certification from the RIAA. She was also nominated for and won four CMA Awards.

The next Union Station album was released in 1997 and it won the Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass album with a track featured on the show Buffy the Vampire Slayer as well as on the Buffy movie. Alison Krauss’s next solo album was released in 1999 and two of its tracked appeared on the Billboard 200 and on the Billboard country chart with gold certification. AKUS again released an album in 2004, Lonely Runs Both Ways which was certified gold. She worked on single Whiskey Lullaby with Brad Paisley, a single that appeared on the Billboard Hot 100, won 2 CMA award and was ranked 5 th on the Hot Country Songs. All in all, an immensely successful artist and band, for which you must grab Alison Krauss and Union Station tickets for a lovely time filled with bluegrass music.