Alison Krauss News

Ralph Stanley has already won three Grammys, and tonight he goes for his fourth.

But when you're about to perform some of the most beloved music in history and on a grand stage in front of the man who made it all famous ... well, that calls for grander measures.

As joyful as Robert Plant's experience singing in the studio with bluegrass star Alison Krauss was, he says the real fireworks have been at their freewheeling shows on tour, where each performance is entirely different from the last.

Reaching back to the days of abject poverty in Appalachia where the melancholy music told stories of a harsh life, rises a vocal style only perfected by a few artists such as Ralph Stanley and Dan Tyminski.

After a foray into bluegrass in 2010, with the lauded album "Up on the Ridge," which found Dierks Bentley working with the likes of the Punch Brothers, Del McCoury, and Alison Krauss, the country singer dipped back to the Nashville well for his new album, "Home." The freewheeling vocalist gets misty-eyed about America on the title track, but he ... (more)

Clintwood, VA -- The Ralph Stanley Museum & Traditional Mountain Music Center will host Dr.

Alison Krauss & Union Station featuring Jerry Douglas , along with Norah Jones and James Taylor , are among the artists honoring Paul McCartney as the 2012 MusiCares Person of the Year.

Alison Krauss & Union Station featuring Jerry Douglas will bring its Paper Airplane Tour 2012 to Atlantic City at Caesars Atlantic City Circus Maximus Theater on Friday, April 20th.

Okay, getting right into The Goat Rodeo Sessions album, can you tell give us a little insight into one of its songs, perhaps, "Where's My Bow?" SD : That song started as a little mandolin riff that I came up with a couple of years ago.

Modern bluegrass queen Alison Krauss will be fiddling around Norfolk in April, promoters announced.

Alison 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.

Alison Krauss & Union Station featuring Jerry Douglas will bring its Paper Airplane Tour 2012 to Thalia Mara Hall on Friday, May 4th.

Clintwood, VA -- The Ralph Stanley Museum & Traditional Mountain Music Center will host Dr.