New AKUS Interview

[greenmoray]

bluegrassmusic.com/content/2011/feature/alison-krauss-union-station/

Finally, a good interview with AKUS posted today by Bluegrass Music that has new content.

[Allie]

Awww this interview! ;D It's so nice to see a good interview pop up and I loved the bits about her first starting out.

She’s animated and engaged when talking music and musicians, but mention her unprecedented first-week number one chart position for Paper Airplane, and she shrugs it off with visible irritation. “That was great. We were thrilled,” she replies in a robotic monotone. When I offer that her first-week sales of 83,000 were more than four times what most successful bluegrass albums can expect in total, she gets angry, her voice rising. “That’s a shame!”

This has to be my favorite part. ♥

[tolliver16]

Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow.

I loved this article. Loved it.

Alison's comment about the purity of bluegrass is the reason I love it and this band. I love that whole paragraph:

“I’ve always loved the message that bluegrass has the purity of it. It’s always, ‘There’s nothing more beautiful than the girl next door. There’s nothing more wonderful than Mom and Dad. There’s nothing more passionate than this man running away with the beautiful girl next door.’” She shivers, then laughs, displaying the goosebumps on her arm. “Chills,” she says. “I daydreamed about that life when I first listened to the stuff, riding around with John. That message is what we carry, even though we might have more contemporary lyrics. You can’t explain it. It’s the stuff that makes you daydream and you don’t know why.”

AKUS has passion for what they do and I feel like we all share that passion with them.

[turbo]

Loved this article. I always love new little insights into The Great One's life.

[greenmoray]

www.birminghampost.net/life-leisure-birmingham-guide/birmingham-culture/music-in-birmingham/2011/11/04/alison-krauss-gives-voice-to-truth-and-emotion-65233-29706452/

From Birmingham, England here is a new interview from a correspondent who can actually write....some same stuff but also some insights.

And who would know that the entire band loves curry!

[silverqueen]

I can't even deal with her.

[Allie]

Nov 3, 2011 14:09:08 GMT -5 silverqueen said:

I can't even deal with her.

This.

This whole interview is kind of doing my head in. I'm not used to seeing her get this personal yet still have an air of mystery about her.

"She’s a conundrum, I tell her, wearing her heart on her sleeve before whipping on a blanketing shawl."

[greenmoray]

Another interview from the UK...not as good as Birmingham but still

www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/alison-krauss-o-brother-the-country-girl-who-met-the-led-zep-legend-6260040.html

[greenmoray]

www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/review-24009482-alison-krauss-and-union-station-festival-hall---review.do

Although brief, I rejoiced to see that a reviewer finally got that "Baby, Now That I Found You" is about obsession and may not be a good choice for wedding song.

Also liked the phrase "slight oddness" and what US reviewer would even use the word "droll".

[greenmoray]

www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/alison-krauss--union-station-royal-festival-hall-london-6262615.html

Stevie Nicks' chirpier country cousin?
Jerry in bondage with his dobro?

This reviewer is really quite funny and obviously desperate to find alternative figures of speech to "angelic" and "masterful"

[Allie]

I especially liked the Wizard of Oz comparison. I got a huge kick out of imagining Alison as Dorothy and Dan as Toto.

[greenmoray]

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00hh26l

There is a BBC Scotland radio interview with Alison on the Friday
after Thanksgiving that was recorded last week during the AKUS tour. These interviews are generally available 24 hours after they are broadcast in the UK and remain available for 7 days.

[silverqueen]

So that should air at 3 PM EST, correct?

[greenmoray]

It will or would be 3 p.m. EST if it is available at the time it broadcasts.

[greenmoray]

www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/music/alison-kraus-the-queen-of-bluegrass-music

Another new interview.....sort of.....some oft heard responses but a few
bits of new information ( She is interested in the Easter Island statutes!) along with a lovely photograph.