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AboutAlison Krauss helped bring bluegrass to a new audience in
the '90s. Blending bluegrass with folk, Krauss was instantly
acclaimed from the start of her career, but it wasn't until her
platinum-selling 1995 compilation, Now That I've Found You,
that she became a mainstream star. Between her 1987 debut
Too Late to Cry and Now That I've Found You, she matured
from a child prodigy to a versatile, ambitious, and diverse
musician and, in the process, made some of the freshest
bluegrass of the late '80s and early '90s.

When she was five years old, Krauss began playing the violin,
taking classical lessons. She soon tired of the regiments of
classical playing and began performing country and
bluegrass licks. At the age of eight, she began entering talent
contests in and around her native Champaign, IL. Two years
later, she had her own band. In 1983, when she was 12 years
old, she won the Illinois State Fiddle Championship and the
Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass in America named
her the Most Promising Fiddler in the Midwest. In 1985,
Krauss made her recording debut on an album, playing on a
record made by her brother Viktor, Jim Hoiles, and Bruce
Weiss. The album was called Different Strokes and appeared
on the independent Fiddle Tunes label. Later that year, she
signed to Rounder Records. She was 14 years old at the time.

Too Late to Cry, Krauss' debut album, appeared in 1987 to
very positive reviews. The album was recorded with Krauss'
backup band, the Union Station, which featured guitarist Jeff
White, banjoist Alison Brown, and bassist Viktor Krauss; the
following year, the group won the Society for the Preservation
of Bluegrass in America's National Band Championship
contest. In 1989, Krauss and Union Station released Two
Highways, which was nominated for the Grammy Award for
Best Bluegrass Recording. Although the album didn't win the
award, her next album, 1990's I've Got That Old Feeling, did.
The success of I've Got That Old Feeling was unprecedented
for bluegrass acts in the '80s and it laid the groundwork for
Krauss' breakthrough in the '90s. By this time, the Union
Station's lineup had more or less settled; it now featured
mandolinist Adam Steffey, banjoist/guitarist Ron Block,
bassist Barry Bales, and guitarist Tim Stafford; Stafford later
left the group and was replaced by Dan Tyminski.

In 1992, Alison Krauss & Union Station released Every Time
You Say Goodbye, which featured a typically eclectic array of
material: everything from "Orange Blossom Special" to the
Beatles' "I Will" and Shawn Colvin's "I Don't Know Why" were
covered. The album appeared in the country charts and
Krauss' videos were shown on Country Music Television. I
Know Who Holds Tomorrow was released in 1994 and was
even more successful. But it was the 1995 compilation, Now
That I've Found You: A Collection, that made Krauss a star.
The album reached number two on the country charts and —
even more remarkably — went into the pop Top Ten and sold
over a million copies. Its success confirmed her status as
bluegrass' leading light in the '90s. Krauss & Union Station
followed the unexpected success of Now That I've Found You
with So Long, So Wrong in the spring 1997. Forget About It
followed in mid-1999. A year later, Alison Krauss & Union
Station joined the likes of John Hartford, Ralph Stanley and
others for the multi-million selling soundtrack O Brother,
Where Art Thou?. A North American tour showcasing some of
the album's stellar musicians followed in summer 2002,
allowing Krauss and her band's popularity to soar. New
Favorite appeared in November and went gold within four
months.

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