Friday; September 11, 2008
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Singer, Songwriter & Fiddler
ALISON KRAUSS
Best (Female) Artist
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Singer, Songwriter & Fiddler
ALISON KRAUSS
Best (Female) Artist
I’m sure you’ve heard, by now, that Alison Krauss & Robert Plant (Led Zeppelin lead singer) are Touring, together in 2008.
Well, although that may very well be true – the Led Zeppelin Reunion Tour has caused rescheduling.
Yes, Alison & Robert headlined Bonnaroo 2008 Music & Arts Festival. They joined Pearl Jam, Metallica, Jack Johnson, Kanye West, Phil Lesh & Friends, My Morning Jacket, The Allman Brothers Band, Willie Nelson, B.B. King, Sigur Ros, Levon Helm, The Bluegrass Allstarts Featuring: Luke Bulls, Sam Bush, Jerry Douglas, Bela Fleck, Edgar Meyer and Bryan Sutton, Younder Mountain String Band, Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings, Pat Green, Solomon Burke, and many, many more, more.
Yet, Alison Krauss & her band, Union Station toured the Globe that began February 28, 2008 in New York city’s Carnegie Hall and played dates in Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama and Louisiana before crossing the ‘big pond’ appearing in the UK, Germany, France, Belgium and Sweden before coming back Stateside finishing off the Tour in mid June.
If you would like to hear Alison Krauss at her finest, click on this youtube.com selection of her covering James Taylor’s Carolina In My Mind:
Carolina In My Mind
In my mind I'm goin' to Carolina
Can't you see the sunshine
Can't you just feel the moonshine
Ain't it just like a friend of mine
To hit me from behind
Yes I'm goin' to Carolina in my mind
Karen she's a silver sun
You best walk her way and watch it shinin'
Watch her watch the mornin' come
A silver tear appearing now I'm cryin'Ain't I
Goin' to Carolina in my mind
.There ain't no doubt in no one's mind
That love's the finest thing around
Whisper something soft and kind
And hey babe the sky's on fire, I'm dyin'Ain't I
Goin' to Carolina in my mind
.In my mind I'm goin' to Carolina
Can't you see the sunshine
Can't you just feel the moonshine
Ain't it just like a friend of mine
To hit me from behind
Yes I'm goin' to Carolina in my mind
.Dark and silent late last night
I think I might have heard the highway calling
Geese in flight and dogs that bite
Signs that might be omens say I'm going, going
I'm goin' to Carolina in my mind
.With a holy host of others standing 'round me
Still I'm on the dark side of the moon
And it seems like it goes on like this forever
You must forgive me
If I'm up and goin' to Carolina in my mind
.In my mind I'm goin' to Carolina
Can't you see the sunshine
Can't you just feel the moonshine
Ain't it just like a friend of mine
To hit me from behind
Yes I'm goin' to Carolina in my mind
.Goin' to Carolina in my mind
And I'm goin' to Carolina in my mind
Goin' to Carolina in my mind
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(Goin')(I'm goin')
(Say nice things about me 'cause I'm goin' southbound)
(Carry on with out me 'cause I'm goin')
Truly, if there’s ever been anybody to topple Patsy Cline from the Greatest Female Artist spot – in my mind, I’m going to Alison Krauss.
LARRY CURTIS SPURLOCK
2 comments:
There are a couple of points of misinformation in your article:
The Carnegie Hall appearance was to be Alison appearing with Bobby McFerrin but did not happan as Alison was ill.
The Raising Sand tour with Robert Plant was not rescheduled because of a Zeppelin reunion because there is no reunion--only a one off date. The tour stops you mentioned were Alison, Robert, and T-Bone Burnett on the road supporting Raising Sand. More tour dates for this excellent show begin in September.
http://serious.manicnirvana.com/miscellany/?cat=12
RPF
ManicNirvana.com
Thank you, RPF for your insightful comments and corrections. They are appreciated.
I, originally, wrote this Piece for a, now defunct, Blog .. back in February.
I wanted to share it with my new Readers and neglected to make all the appropriate changes.
Again, thanks for reading and responding to this Blog.
LARRY CURTIS SPURLOCK
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