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Alison Krauss, born July 23, 1971 in Decatur,
Illinois, is a Bluegrass music|bluegrass singer
and virtuoso fiddle player who grew up in
Champaign, Illinois. Almost certainly the most
successful bluegrass musician ever, Krauss has had
several platinum-selling albums, has received
seventeen Grammy Awards (more than any other woman
in the history of the Grammys), and been a
featured performer in the Oscars. In 1995 she was
awarded Female Vocalist of the Year by the Country
Music Association.

A protégé of Bill Monroe, her music has wide
appeal, beyond its traditional popularity within
country and American folk music|folk circles. Best
known for her work on the O Brother, Where Art
Thou? movie soundtrack, as well as its companion
album, Down from the Mountain, Krauss's music is
also featured prominently on the Cold Mountain
soundtrack, for which she was nominated for an
Oscar.  Her band, Union Station, is a traditional
bluegrass ensemble, but Krauss is not a complete
purist, having covered songs by, among others, the
Beatles.  Union Station are: Barry Bales (bass,
harmony vocals), Ron Block (banjo, guitar, lead &
harmony vocals), Jerry Douglas (dobro), and Dan
Tyminski (acoustic guitar, mandolin, lead &
harmony vocals).

==Discography==
* Different Strokes 1985
* Too Late to Cry  1987
* Two Highways  1989
* I've Got That Old Feeling  1990
* Every Time You Say Goodbye  1992
* I Know Who Holds Tomorrow (with The Cox Family) 
1994
* Now That I've Found You: A Collection  1995
* So Long So Wrong  1997
* Forget About It  1999
* New Favorite  2001
* Live  2002
* Lonely Runs Both Ways  2004

==Samples==
*Media:DowntotheRivertoPray.ogg|Download sample of
"Down to the River to Pray" from the O Brother,
Where Art Thou? (soundtrack)|O Brother, Where Art
Thou? soundtrack

== Grammy Awards ==
* 2003 Best Country Collaboration with Vocals:
James Taylor & Alison Krauss for How's The World
Treating You 
* 2003 Best Bluegrass Album: Alison Krauss & Union
Station for Live 
* 2003 Best Country Instrumental Performance:
Alison Krauss & Union Station for Cluck Old Hen 
* 2002 Best Contemporary Folk Album: Nickel Creek,
artist, Alison Krauss, producer.
* 2001 Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group
with Vocal: Alison Krauss & Union Station for The
Lucky One 
* 2001 Best Bluegrass Album: Gary Paczosa
(engineer) & Alison Krauss & Union Station
(producers and artists) for New Favorite 
* 2001 Album of the Year: for O Brother, Where Art
Thou? - soundtrack
* 1998 Best Country Collaboration with Vocals:
Alison Krauss, Clint Black, Dwight Yoakam, Earl
Scruggs, Emmylou Harris, Joe Diffie, Marty Stuart,
Merle Haggard, Pam Tillis, Patty Loveless, Randy
Travis, Ricky Skaggs & Travis Tritt,artists, for
Same Old Train
* 1997 Best Bluegrass Album: Alison Krauss & Union
Station for So Long So Wrong 
* 1997 Best Country Instrumental Performance:
Alison Krauss & Union Station for Little Liza Jane

* 1997 Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group
with Vocal: Alison Krauss & Union Station for
Looking in the Eyes of Love 
* 1996 Best Country Collaboration with Vocals:
Alison Krauss & Union Station & Vince Gill for
High Lonesome Sound 
* 1996 Best Female Country Vocal Performance: for
Baby, Now That I've Found You 
* 1995 Best Country Collaboration with Vocals:
Alison Krauss & Shenandoah for Somewhere in the
Vicinity of the Heart 
* 1994 Best Southern Gospel, Country Gospel Or
Bluegrass Gospel Album: Alison Krauss & Cox Family
(Evelyn Cox, Lynn Cox, Sidney Cox, Suzanne Cox,
Willard Cox) for I Know Who Holds Tomorrow
* 1992 Best Bluegrass Album: Alison Krauss & Union
Station for Every Time You Say Goodbye 
* 1990 Best Bluegrass Album: Alison Krauss for
I've Got That Old Feeling
From the http://www.grammys.org Grammy awards web
site

== Country Music Association Awards ==
* 2004 Music Video of the Year: Whiskey Lullaby
(directed by Rick Schroder)
* 2004 Musical Event of the Year: Whiskey Lullaby
(Brad Paisley and Alison Krauss)
* 2001 Album of the Year: O Brother, Where Art
Thou? - Mercury
* 1995 Female Vocalist of the Year
* 1995 Vocal Event of the Year: Somewhere In The
Vicinity of the Heart (Alison Krauss and
Shenandoah)
* 1995 Horizon Award
* 1995 Single of the Year: When You Say Nothing At
All - BNA
From
http://www.cmaawards.com/2004/search_artists/view_
artist_40.htm CMA Awards List for Alison Krauss

== International Bluegrass Music Association
Awards ==
* 2004 Recorded Event of the Year: Joe Nichols,
Rhonda Vincent, Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell,
James Taylor, Alison Krauss, Vince Gill, Terri
Clark, Merle Haggard, Carl Jackson, Ronnie Dunn,
Rebecca Lynn Howard, Glen Campbell, Leslie
Satcher, Kathy Louvin, Pamela Brown Hayes, Linda
Ronstadt, Patty Loveless, Jon Randall, Harley
Allen, Dierks Bentley, Larry Cordle, Jerry Salley,
Dolly Parton, Sonya Isaacs, Marty Stuart, Del
McCoury, Pam Tillis, Johnny Cash & the Jordanaires
for Livin’ Lovin’ Losin: Songs of the Louvin
Brothers
* 2003 Album of the Year: Alison Krauss + Union
Station for Live
* 2002 Album of the Year: Fairfield Four, John
Hartford, Alison Krauss + Union Station, Dan
Tyminski, The Cox Family, Gillian Welch, David
Rawlings, The Whites, Chris Thomas King with Colin
Linden, and Emmylou Harris for Down from the
Mountain
* 2001 Album of the Year:  Norman Blake, James
Carter & The Prisoners, The Cox Family, Fairfield
Four, Emmylou Harris, John Hartford, Chris Thomas
King, Alison Krauss, Harry McClintock, The Peasall
Sisters, The Soggy Bottom Boys, Ralph Stanley, The
Stanley Brothers, Gillian Welch, The Whites for O
Brother, Where Art Thou? - soundtrack
* 2001 Gospel Recorded Performance of the Year:
Alison Krauss + Union Station for Live
* 1995 Song of the Year: Vince Gill with Alison
Krauss & Gillian Welch for High I'll Fly Away from
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
* 1995 Entertainer of the Year
* 1995 Female Vocalist of the Year
* 1993 Female Vocalist of the Year
* 1993 Album of the Year: Every Time You Say
Goodbye 
* 1991 Female Vocalist of the Year
* 1991 Entertainer of the Year
* 1990 Female Vocalist of the Year

== Other Awards ==

* 2005 CMT Music Awards: Collaborative Video of
the Year category for Alison Krauss and Brad
Paisley for their duet Whiskey Lullaby
* 2005 Academy of Country Music Awards: Vocal
Event of the Year: Alison Krauss and Brad Paisley
for Whiskey Lullaby
* 2005 Academy of Country Music Awards: Video of
the Year: Alison Krauss and Brad Paisley for
Whiskey Lullaby
* 2000 Canadian Country Music Award,
Vocal/Instrumental Collaboration with Natalie Mac
Master for Get Me Through December
* 1998 Dove Award (Gospel Music Association),
Bluegrass Recorded Song of the Year with Fernando
Ortega for Children of the Living God

==External links==
* http://www.alisonkrauss.com/ Official site
* http://www.alisonkrauss.net/ Rounder Records
site for Alison Krauss
*
http://www.cmt.com/artists/az/krauss_alison/artist
.jhtml CMT Info on Alison Krauss
* imdb name|id=0470295|name=Alison Krauss