Alison Krauss and Union Station – Arcadia (2025) [FLAC 24bit/44,1kHz]

Alison Krauss and Union Station – Arcadia (2025)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 35:54 minutes | 401 MB | Genre: Country, Bluegrass
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For nearly four decades, Alison Krauss & Union Station have upheld their legacy as one of the most influential and widely celebrated acts in bluegrass and roots music. Krauss is a 27-time Grammy winner and was inducted into the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame in 2021. Known for an immaculately crafted but endlessly surprising sound that transcends the boundaries of roots, country, rock & roll, and pop, Alison Krauss & Union Station are making their long-awaited return with Arcadia – their first LP since the 2011 masterpiece Paper Airplane—a critically lauded, multiple Grammy Award winning LP that debuted at #1 on the Billboard Country, Bluegrass, and Folk Album charts.

This spring, they will embark on a 73-date tour of North America, their first since 2015. Arcadia was produced by Alison Krauss & Union Station with additional production by 10-time Grammy winning producer Gary Paczosa, who has worked extensively with the band. The players – Alison Krauss (fiddle, lead vocal), Jerry Douglas (Dobro, lap steel, vocals), Ron Block (banjo, guitar, vocals), Barry Bales (bass, vocals), and welcoming highly acclaimed and celebrated tenor vocalist Russell Moore (guitar, mandolin, lead vocal) as the newest member – are five distinct personalities, each of whom also enjoys a flourishing solo career. But when they come together, they transform into a peerless group of musicians who share a singular focus.After a 14-year absence, Alison Krauss and Union Station are back just in time for the 25th anniversary of O Brother, Where Are Thou?, the movie soundtrack that really broke them through to the mainstream. And while the band was already a bluegrass supergroup—with Krauss on fiddle, Jerry Douglas on lap steel and dobro, Dan Tyminski on mandolin and guitar, Ron Block on banjo and Barry Bales on upright bass—it’s now even more so with the addition of Russell Moore, who has joined as Tyminski is busy touring and recording on his own. (Tyminski, whose solo career took off thanks to the song “Man of Constant Sorrow” from O Brother, still plays a big role on Arcadia.) With Moore—the International Bluegrass Music Association’s most-awarded male vocalist—and Krauss, the band now has two of the best, most celebrated singers in modern bluegrass, and the staffing shuffle seems to have energized everyone even though this is a rather dark record. Moore takes the lead on “The Hangman,” a chilling musical version of the 1950s Maurice Ogden poem about a town where citizens are executed one by one; everyone is too afraid to speak up out of fear they’ll be next, including the narrator who eventually is forced to the gallows tree. Ballad “Granite Mills” is a traditional based on the real story of an 19th-century industrial accident in Fall River, New York, describing the terror of mill workers, including children, desperate to escape a fire that killed 23 of them. A story of loss, “Looks Like the End of the Road” has a mysterious, Eastern European feel—melancholy stirred up by Douglas on dobro—though when Krauss lets out a “goodbyyyyyye” it’s like she’s flying straight to the clouds. She also sounds as crystalline as ever on the chorus of “The Wrong Way,” a shadowy number written by Tyminski and Robert Lee Castleman that explores the end of life. And sometimes the songs just sound like heartache, as with the minor-key loveliness of “One Ray of Shine.” But it’s not all sorrow. Traditional “Richmond on the James” is a fleet treat that finds Block and Bales particularly shining bright, and the picking is absolutely breathtaking on golden “Snow.” A luminescent cover of JD McPherson’s “North Side Gal” doesn’t lose any of the original’s rockabilly spirit. And Krauss could be a Disney princess, hitting knockout fairy-tale notes on the sweet-dreams ballad “There’s a Light Up Ahead.” – Shelly Ridenour

Tracklist:

1-1. Ron Block – Looks Like The End Of The Road (03:39)
1-2. Alison Krauss and Union Station – The Hangman (03:37)
1-3. Ron Block – The Wrong Way (03:35)
1-4. Alison Krauss and Union Station – Granite Mills (03:40)
1-5. Ron Block – One Ray Of Shine (04:03)
1-6. Alison Krauss and Union Station – Richmond On The James (03:27)
1-7. Ron Block – North Side Gal (02:36)
1-8. Jerry Douglas – Forever (03:39)
1-9. Jerry Douglas – Snow (03:23)
1-10. Jerry Douglas – There’s A Light Up Ahead (04:13)

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