Tag: Alison Krauss

Wednesday 12/1/21 12am ET: Feature LP: Alison Krauss & Robert Plant – Raise The Roof (2021)

Raise the Roof is the second collaborative studio album by British singer-songwriter Robert Plant and American bluegrass-country singer Alison Krauss. The album was released on November 19, 2021, by Rounder Records and Concord Records in the United States and Warner Music for the rest of the world.

  1. “Quattro (World Drifts In)” 4:33
  2. “The Price of Love” 4:50
  3. “Go Your Way” 5:07
  4. “Trouble with My Lover” 4:03
  5. “Searching for My Love” 4:03
  6. “Can’t Let Go” 3:41
  7. “It Don’t Bother Me” 5:06
  8. “You Led Me to the Wrong” 4:17
  9. “Last Kind Words Blues” 4:06
  10. “High and Lonesome” 4:33
  11. “Going Where the Lonely Go” 4:10
  12. “Somebody Was Watching Over Me” 5:02

Alison Krauss – vocals, fiddle
Robert Plant – vocals
T Bone Burnett six-string bass, composer, acoustic and electric guitars, Mellotron, producer, vocal harmony, backing vocals
David Hidalgo – acoustic guitar, electric guitar
Bill Frisell – acoustic guitar, electric guitar
Buddy Miller – electric mandolin, guitar
Marc Ribot – acoustic guitar, banjo, dobro, electric guitar
Dennis Crouch – bass guitar
Stuart Duncan – banjo, cello, fiddle, mandolin
Jay Bellerose – drums

Thursday 4/1/21 1am ET: Feature LP: Barry Gibb – Greenfields: The Gibb Brothers Songbook, Vol. 1

Greenfields: The Gibb Brothers Songbook, Vol. 1 is the third solo album by British-American singer-songwriter Barry Gibb, which was released on January 8, 2021 by Capitol Records in America and EMI Records internationally. The album features re-imaginings of songs written by the Bee Gees with country music singers. The album’s title is taken from a lyric in the song “Butterfly”.

At 74 years, 4 months and 17 days old, Gibb became the oldest artist to peak at number 1 on the Australian ARIA Albums Chart.

  1. “I’ve Gotta Get a Message to You” Keith Urban 3:15
  2. “Words of a Fool” Jason Isbell 3:48
  3. “Run to Me” Brandi Carlile 3:22
  4. “Too Much Heaven” Alison Krauss 3:40
  5. “Lonely Days” Little Big Town 3:44
  6. “Words” Dolly Parton 3:12
  7. “Jive Talkin'” Miranda Lambert and Jay Buchanan 3:58
  8. “How Deep Is Your Love” Little Big Town and Tommy Emmanuel 4:26
  9. “How Can You Mend a Broken Heart” Sheryl Crow 3:26
  10. “To Love Somebody” Jay Buchanan 3:55
  11. “Rest Your Love on Me” Olivia Newton-John 4:02
  12. “Butterfly” David Rawlings and Gillian Welch 3:43

Feature LP: Willie Nelson – To All The Girls 11pm ET

Willie_Nelson_-_To_All_The_Girls_(album_cover)To All the Girls… is an album by country music singer-songwriter Willie Nelson, which was released on October 15, 2013, by Legacy Recordings.

The album consists of a collection of duets featuring Nelson along with prominent country music female singers. The performers featured on the eighteen tracks of the album were Dolly Parton, Miranda Lambert, Loretta Lynn, Carrie Underwood, The Secret Sisters, Roseanne Cash, Sheryl Crow, Wynonna Judd, Alison Krauss, Melonie Cannon, Mavis Staples, Norah Jones, Shelby Lynne, Emmylou Harris, Lily Meola, Brandi Carlile, Tina Rose; and his daughter, Paula Nelson. The album was released on October 15, 2013 on Legacy Recordings.

The first single “From Here to the Moon and Back”, a duet with Dolly Parton that she wrote for the 2012 movie Joyful Noise, was released on August 2, 2013. It was followed by the release of the single “Grandma’s Hands“, with Mavis Staples, on August 6. “It Won’t Be Long”, featuring the Secret Sisters was released on September 24; while “Somewhere Between” with Loretta Lynn was released on October 1.

1 From Here to the Moon and Back   Dolly Parton 4:01
2 She Was No Good for Me   Miranda Lambert 3:47
3 It Won’t Be Very Long   The Secret Sisters 2:36
4 Please Don’t Tell Me How the Story Ends   Rosanne Cash 4:18
5 Far Away Places   Sheryl Crow 4:56
6 Bloody Mary Morning   Wynonna Judd 3:05
7 Always on My Mind   Carrie Underwood 3:55
8 Somewhere Between   Loretta Lynn 3:13
9 No Mas Amor   Alison Krauss 4:12
10 Back To Earth   Melonie Cannon 3:30
11 Grandma’s Hands   Mavis Staples 3:10
12 Walkin’   Norah Jones 3:39
13 ‘Til The End of the World   Shelby Lynne 2:01
14 Will You Remember Mine   Lily Meola 4:34
15 Dry Lightning   Emmylou Harris 4:21
16 Making Believe   Brandi Carlile 3:16
17 Have You Ever Seen the Rain   Paula Nelson 4:38
18 After the Fire Is Gone   Tina Rose 2:43

Source: Wikipedia

 

Artist Countdown: Shania Twain Top 40 Hits – 6pm ET @ShaniaTwain

Shania TwainShania Twain, OC (born Eilleen Regina Edwards; August 28, 1965) is a Canadian country pop singer-songwriter. Her 1995 album The Woman in Me brought her fame, and her 1997 album Come On Over became the best-selling studio album of all time by a female act in any genre and the best-selling country album of all time, Come On Over sold more than 40 million copies worldwide. Her fourth and last studio album to date, Up!, was released in November 2002 and has sold more than 20 million copies worldwide.

Twain has won 5 Grammy Awards and 27 BMI Songwriter awards. She has had three albums certified Diamond by the Recording Industry Association of America and is the second best-selling artist in Canada, behind Céline Dion, with three of her studio albums certified double diamond by the Canadian Recording Industry Association. She is the first (and currently only) female artist in history to have 3 consecutive albums reach diamond status, certified by the RIAA.

Sometimes referred to as “The Queen of Country Pop”, she has sold more than 75 million albums worldwide and is ranked 10th best-selling artist of the Nielsen SoundScan era. She was also ranked 72nd on Billboard’s “Artists of the decade” (2000–10). Most recently, Twain has her own TV series, Why Not? with Shania Twain, that premiered on the OWN on May 8, 2011. She received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on June 2, 2011.   (Source: Wikipedia)

1 You’re Still the One
2 That Don’t Impress Me Much
3 Man! I Feel Like a Woman!
4 From This Moment On
5 I’m Gonna Getcha Good!
6 Forever and for Always
7 Ka-Ching!
8 You’ve Got a Way
9 Party for Two (with Mark McGrath)
10 Up!
11 Don’t Be Stupid (You Know I Love You)
12 Don’t!
13 When You Kiss Me
14 (If You’re Not in It for Love) I’m Outta Here!
15 Thank You Baby! (For Makin’ Someday Come So Soon)
16 Love Gets Me Every Time
17 Any Man of Mine
18 When
19 You Win My Love
20 Come On Over
21 It Only Hurts When I’m Breathing
22 Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under?
23 The Woman in Me (Needs the Man in You)
24 Today Is Your Day
25 I’m Holdin’ On to Love (To Save My Life)
26 No One Needs to Know
27 Honey, I’m Home
28 God Bless the Child
29 Party for Two (with Billy Currington)
30 Rock This Country!
31 Home Ain’t Where His Heart Is (Anymore)
32 She’s Not Just a Pretty Face
33 What Made You Say That
34 Dance with the One That Brought You
35 Shoes
36 I Ain’t No Quitter
37 Coat of Many Colors (with Alison Krauss & Union Station)
38 If It Don’t Take Two
39 Endless Love (with Lionel Richie)
40 You Needed Me (with Anne Murray)

Artist Countdown: Alison Krauss Top 30 Hits 8pm ET @AlisonKrauss

ALison KraussAlison Maria Krauss (born July 23, 1971) is an American bluegrass-country singer-songwriter and musician. She entered the music industry at an early age, winning local contests by the age of ten and recording for the first time at fourteen. She signed with Rounder Records in 1985 and released her first solo album in 1987. She was invited to join the band with which she still performs, Alison Krauss and Union Station (AKUS), and later released her first album with them as a group in 1989.

She has released fourteen albums, appeared on numerous soundtracks, and helped renew interest in bluegrass music in the United States. Her soundtrack performances have led to further popularity, including the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack, an album also credited with raising American interest in bluegrass, and the Cold Mountain soundtrack, which led to her performance at the 2004 Academy Awards. As of 2012, she has won 27 Grammy Awards from 41 nominations, making her tied as the most awarded living recipient, three behind the most honored artist, classical conductor Sir Georg Solti. She is also the most awarded singer and the most awarded female artist in Grammy history. At the time of her first award, at the 1991 Grammy Awards, she was the second youngest winner ever (currently tied as third youngest). (Source: Wikipedia)

1 When You Say Nothing at All
2 Buy Me a Rose (with Kenny Rogers & Billy Dean)
3 Whiskey Lullaby  (with Brad Paisley)
4 Baby Now That I’ve Found You
5 Please Read the Letter   (with Robert Plant)
6 Forget About It
7 Rich Woman   (with Robert Plant)
8 Stay
9 Missing You (with John Waite)
10 Restless
11 Find My Way Back to My Heart
12 The Lucky One
13 Coat of Many Colors (with Shania Twain)
14 Steel Rails
15 Teach Your Children  (with The Red Hots)
16 I’ve Got That Old Feeling
17 Baby Mine
18 New Fool
19 Looking in the Eyes of Love
20 Gone, Gone, Gone (Done Moved On) (with Robert Plant)
21 Every Time You Say Goodbye
22 Maybe
23 Let Me Touch You for a While
24 Paper Airplane
25 My Love Follows You Where You Go
26 Stick With Me Baby   (with Robert Plant)
27 I Give You to His Heart
28 I Just Come Here for the Music (with Don Williams)
29 High Lonesome Sound (with Vince Gill)
30 9 to 5