When You Say Nothing At All - Alison Krauss

Advantages: Some great songs, great voice
Disadvantages: Read the review

...in music is Country. Actually, behind rock, country and bluesgrass music is probably my favourite style and forms a significant proportion of my music collection. Artists such as Randy Travis, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Nickelcreek and a host of others feature regularly on my Zen MP3 player. Another artist that I have enjoyed for a few years now is Alison Krauss. I forget exactly how I stumbled across it, but the first Alison Krauss song I heard was a cover of ‘You’re The Lucky One’. Whilst I enjoyed her singing and arrangement of the song, there was nothing about it that really struck me a particularly special and so I happily listened to that one song, with a couple of others, thinking nothing of it. A couple of years or so after hearing that track I came across a duet she did with Brad Paisley, (I was actually looking for Paisley... Read review

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Advantages: One of the most amazing voices ever.
Disadvantages: umm.. that there isn't more?

...through so we didn't realise what it was called or from but knew we loved it and have been trying to track it down since. This is a great DVD and one I should review another time! <<okay, here comes the actual review!>> The other DVD is called Alison Krauss and Union Station Live and is a concert DVD. Allison Krauss has an amazing, clear voice and the band are incredible too. One of the members of Union station, Dan Tyminski, actually provided the singing voice for George Clooney's character in 'O Brother' and you can hear him sing one of the more well known songs from the movie on this DVD. --- This is a double DVD and well worth the price because you get one disc of the actual concert and another with interviews, stills and other background material on the whole band. The concert disc is a recording of a performance in a spectacular... Read review

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Advantages: Seriously talented Bluegrass performers
Disadvantages: A few weak tracks

...I bought this CD after catching the second hallf of this concert when it was shown on BBC4. I'd never bought, or considered listening to Bluegrass before but was so taken by it that I ordered this double CD the next morning off Amazon. It turns out that Alison Krauss is pretty well known in the States and gained immediate recognition for her talent with her first album "I've got that old feeling" (1990), when she was just a teenager. I'd never heard of her. She really does have an amazing, powerful and hauntingly clear voice. In fact all my favourite tracks on this double CD are the ones that she sings. She also plays the fiddle rather well and she's nice looking - Wow, so much talent in one human being! Her band, Union Station, are all seriously talented musicians with Dan Tyminski on guitar, mandolin and vocals, Ron Block... Read review

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