Alison Krauss is a bluegrass singer, producer and fiddle player, best known for bringing bluegrass music to a mainstream audience via the film Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?.
Alison Krauss already had a high profile in the bluegrass community, as a result of competition success for her singing and fiddle playing, when she released her first solo album Too Late to Cry aged 16. Impressed with her work, she was invited to play with Union Station, and so recording for her second album, Two Highways, set the pattern of one solo album followed by one group album. I've Got That Old Feeling reached the Top 100 in the Billboard Country Chart and earned Krauss a Grammy for "Steel Rails". In 1997 she reached a different audience by providing "It Doesn't Matter" for Buffy the Vampire Slayer; the track went on to be included on Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Album. She later provided another track for Buffy, "That Kind of Love".
Krauss is much in demand for her production, vocal and fiddle playing talents, and has worked with Dolly Parton, James Taylor and Brad Paisley. One of the tracks she did with Paisley, "Whiskey Lullaby", won the Country Music Award for Best Musical Event and Best Music Video.
In 2000 she reached possibly her largest audience when she worked on the Coen Brothers film, Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?. "I'm a Man of Constant Sorrow", "I'll Fly Away" and "Down to the River to Pray" were included in the soundtrack album Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?. The album proved to be a huge crossover success, introducing a whole new, worldwide audience to the music, selling seven million copies and winning a Grammy in the process. In a bid to capture the moment, she participated in the Down from the Mountain tour, which comprised artists who had performed on the film, and also produced an album of the same name.
In addition to the Oh Brother... soundtrack, she has provided music for a number of other films including Cold Mountain, Twister and Mona Lisa Smile. In 2007, Krauss collaborated with former Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant for Raising Sand, which earned rave reviews and another Grammy for Krauss' crowded display cabinet.
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