Alison Krauss
Windy City
Decca/Capitol
THOSE despairing (probably with every justification) of ever hearing a follow-up to Alison Krauss's T-Bone Burnett-produced collaboration with Led Zeppelin's Robert Plant on Raising Sand should scurry to the record store for this and then wonder just how essential the rock god was to the success of that album. Strictly speaking, this is her first "solo" album (without the Union Station band or he of the matching flowing blonde locks) in 17 years, and she has delved into a rich back catalogue of country songs, in partnership with Nashville producer Buddy Cannon. It is her claim that she was unaware that Dream of Me (an 80s hit for Vern Gosdin) was of his penning until she brought it to the sessions, but it stands up well between Willie Nelson's I Never Cared For You, Roger Miller's River In The Rain, and John Hartford's Glen Campbell hit Gentle On My Mind.
The title track and the terrific kiss-off It's Goodbye And So Long To You were both 70s hits for The Osborne Brothers, although the latter is two decades older than that, but other highlights date from the 60s – Brenda Lee's Losing You and All Alone Am I and Eddy Arnold's You Don't Know Me, which featured on Ray Charles's classic Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music.
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