Alison Krauss & Union Station - Down to the River to Pray [Live][2002]

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[mdittmar]

Alison Krauss & Union Station - Down to the River to Pray [Live][2002]

[nevermorelenore]

One of my favs! yes !

[blueunicorn6]

Oh....that voice and those eyes......

If I wasn’t married and if she wasn’t married I’d be knocking on her front door with chocolates and flowers and she’d be calling the cops to come and get me the heck away from her front door.

[Rushmore Rocks]

Reminds me of one my favorite movies.....”Oh Brother, Where Art Thou”

[bigbob]

O Brother!

[mdittmar]

O Brother,Where Art Thou?'' Three Sirens-,,Go to Sleep Little Baby!

[mumblypeg]

Here she is on violin and harmonies, with Jerry Douglas (?) on dobro and Dan Tyminski vocals.

The Boy Who Wouldn’t Hoe Corn
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EIs0KMFJvWE

[chajin]

26 years ago, I was in San Diego for a conference on the latest in educational technology (incredible at the time, today you wouldn't touch it with a ten-foot pole). I was tired, sitting in my hotel room, flipping channels on the TV, and I stumbled upon a show just as the announcer was introducing someone who was only 18, and holding a violin—except, it turned out, that she played, not classical violin, but bluegrass fiddle, and had just released her first solo album. I was watching, at the beginning of her career, Alison Krauss.

My father, who grew up in OK, had an affinity for old-time country music of the 1940s and 50s: Ed Ames, Hank Williams Sr., Patti Page, but it had never caught on with me. Watching Alison Krauss that day (she was performing "Steel Rails," here), it occurred to me that bluegrass was essentially the music of the European poor who came to America in the 1600s and early 1700s, when poor people were still playing lower-class dances of the late Renaissance. Since I had researched Renaissance dances as part of my college work, and later in my study of church music (many of the Baroque chorales were, in their original incarnation, based on Renaissance dances), it was like finding an exotic treasure from the past. It was then that I began my love affair with bluegrass, which later expanded into Americana. This link, in the midst of the campaign with which we are dealing on a daily basis, reminded me of that; thank you.

[Rushmore Rocks]

Reminds me of one my favorite movies.....”Oh Brother, Where Art Thou”

[Lorianne]

That voice!
I try very hard not to be envious of others but I can’t help it when I hear her voice.

[mdittmar]

O Brother Where Art Thou Grammy Performance (2002)

[cgbg]

I don’t cry (guy thing) but when I hear her voice I really think about it when she sings one of her sad songs—she is amazing.

[Rushmore Rocks]

Thanks. Really enjoyed watching that. Guess what’s on my DVD schedule tonight?