Alison Krauss - Forget About It
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Artist: Alison KraussBrand: KRAUSS,ALISON
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 1999-08-03
Music Label: Rounder / Umgd
Soundtracks:
- Stay
- Forget About It
- It Wouldn't Have Made Any Difference
- Maybe
- Empty Hearts
- Never Got Off the Ground
- Ghost in This House
- It Don't Matter Now
- That Kind of Love
- Could You Lie
- Dreaming My Dreams With You
Music reviews of Forget About It
Music Review: The Bluegrass Quenn At Her Best
Rating: 4 Stars
Bottom-Line: The quiet beauty and dignity of "Forget About It" will make one forget all about the ugly without for the beauty within its eleven tracks.
Despite the fact that Alison Krauss hasn't the vocal range and talent of most in Country & Western/Blue Grass, she has managed to become the voice of the latter. Her voice is lithe, but with a charm and genuine cadence that is hard to resist; hence her success, mostly with her band Union Station. But in 1999 Alison once again struck out on her own and released the self produced "Forget About It", her fourth solo effort.
As is her style Krauss has stayed away from the lavishly produced, pseudo-C&W Pop that so marks other female artists in her adopted genre and instead remains fairly close to her Bluegrass roots despite the contribution of notable Pop icon Michael McDonald. He is more than balanced out by contributions by noted country songwriter Hugh Prestwood, who penned my favorite track on the CD Ghost In This House in which Alison gives her angelic alto voice full rein.
"Forget About It" is a quiet and intimate affair that invites the listener to come sit by the fire and reflect with Alison on life and love. Despite the lack of a moniker on the album jacket, all of Alison's Union Station band-mates appear on the CD. Other contributors include Matt Rollings (piano), Jim Keltner (drums), Sam Bush (mandolin) as well as the Cox Family singers, Lyle Lovett, Dolly Parton, and Suzanne Cox on harmonizing vocals.
The result is an album layered in rich harmonies and an inspired hushed sound that navigates a sonically pleasing course between traditional bluegrass and contemporary country-pop. Krauss is never far from her fiddle and Jerry Douglas's Dobro and together they create and sound Union Station fans will be all too familiar with.
If there is one weakness on "Forget About It", its Krauss's diminutive voice that often drops to little more than a whisper. One some of the early tracks on the album, this is very disconcerting as Alison's voice all but disappears, eclipsed but the superb instrumentation. But there are exceptions, the most noteworthy being the aforementioned track No. 7 Ghost In This House, wherein Alison's voice takes center stage in a stirring, emotive song about lost love.
Some of the tracks from this CD made it onto Alison Krauss & Union Station's 2-album live CD released in 2002, most notably track No. 1 Stay, track No. 2 Forget About It, track No. 4 Maybe, and track No. 7. With the exception of the last track, Alison breathed more live into them live than she did on the studio release. This is rare and perhaps speaks to her unwashed/unpolished/un-tweaked vocal ability.
Taken as a whole "Forget About It" is far from forgettable and might be just what the (music) doctor ordered after a rushed day in a world increasingly filled with nothing but harshness and ugly. The quiet beauty and dignity of "Forget About It" will make one forget all about the ugly without for the beauty within its eleven tracks.
Description of Forget About It
No Description Available.Genre: Bluegrass
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 3-AUG-1999
When you possess a great pop voice, it's inevitable that you'll someday make a pop album, and Alison Krauss has finally made hers. Instead of bidding for radio airplay with the extravagant, extroverted pop of Shania Twain, Trisha Yearwood, or Celine Dion, Krauss has crafted an intimate, understated chamber-pop album reminiscent of Joni Mitchell's Blue or Rosanne Cash's Interiors. The material comes from such mainstream-pop writers as Michael McDonald, Todd Rundgren, Allen Reynolds, and Danny O'Keefe, but Krauss the producer gives the songs a distinctive spin. She layers the harmonies of her regular Union Station band, the Cox Family singers, pianist Matt Rollings, drummer Jim Keltner, and mandolinist Sam Bush to create a lush, hushed sound that's neither traditional bluegrass nor electric country-pop. Krauss multitracks her own fiddle parts and blends them with Jerry Douglas's Dobro to create an unorthodox string-quartet sound. In this setting her tender, translucent vocals capture that moment when a relationship is unraveling before the lovers are ready to let it go. --Geoffrey Himes
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