In 1989 the bluegrass-country singer Alison Krauss released her first album, 'Two Highways', with which band?

Alison Maria Krauss (born July 23, 1971) is an American bluegrass-country singer 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 'Two Highways' with them 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 2018, she has won 27 Grammy Awards from 42 nominations, making her the most awarded living recipient, second only to classical conductor Georg Solti, who holds the record for most wins with 31. She is the most awarded singer and the most awarded female artist in Grammy history.

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George Oliver Prince

Big fan, one of her band members supplied the singing voice of George Clooney in "Oh Brother"

Robin Heckler

Bob Struckman, It's trivia most of these questions don't matter in the whole scheme of things, but we chose to play to further our education and knowledge of the world as whole. Quit your whining about the questions or quit playing the game.

Maurice O'Neill

Bob Struckman, apparently about 2000 so far either know or guessed correctly. As far as your other two questions, this is a trivia site, by definition dealing with questions that rarely make any “difference” or make anyone “care.” Perhaps you could learn from the famous line spoken by Thumper in the movie Bambi.

Bank-Robber

Love Alison music!!

Joanne Serin

An Allison Kraus was in my high school graduating class on 1966, obviously not this one.

Donna Smith

Missed it

Lynn Huffman

Never heard of her or the band....

dsneed

tesla alset, 👍

dsneed

And she sounds great too. If you heard her, you'd love her voice. Yay me.

earlepg

I thought that I had at least heard of Union Station.

Todd Van Dell

George Oliver Prince, You are correct. That would be Union Station acoustic guitarist and backing harmony vocalist Dan Tyminski. (If you have heard their version of "Now That I Found You", Dan is the singer with the soft airy angelic falsetto voice that sings "now that I found you" by himself, essentially a capella, toward the end of the song.) The following is from the Wikipedia entry about Dan: "Daniel John Tyminski (born June 20, 1967) is an American bluegrass composer, vocalist, and instrumentalist. He is a member of the band Alison Krauss and Union Station and has released two solo albums, Carry Me Across the Mountain (2000), on the Doobie Shea Records label, and Wheels (2008), on the Rounder Records label. He is known for his updated version of the song "Man of Constant Sorrow," which was featured in the movie O Brother, Where Art Thou? and won the 2001 CMA award for best single as well as a Grammy Award for best Country Collaboration with Vocals (along with Harley Allen and Pat Enright, filling out the vocals for the movie's Soggy Bottom Boys). In total, he has won 14 Grammy Awards for solo and collaborative projects. More recently, he was the vocalist on Avicii's international hit "Hey Brother" from the album True." Interestingly, while Alison was touring with Robert Plant in support of their collaborative album Raising Sand, Dan formed his own band, The Dan Tyminski Band. The Dan Tyminski Band is actually Union Station without Alison Krauss. Justin Moses plays fiddle and dobro for The Dan Tyminski Band. Alison plays fiddle and sings when they play together as Alison Krauss & Union Station. "While Alison Krauss and Union Station were on hiatus, owing to Alison Krauss's tour with Robert Plant, Tyminski formed his own group, the Dan Tyminski Band. The ensemble featured Tyminski on guitar, Ron Stewart on banjo, Adam Steffey on mandolin, Justin Moses on fiddle and dobro, and Barry Bales on upright bass. An album, entitled Wheels, was released on Rounder Records in June 2008." Dan, Ron, Adam, and Barry ARE Union Station.