Alison Krauss - A Hundred Miles or More: A Collection
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Free Music Review: Amazing Grace-I Love You Alison Krauss
Hit: 5 Stars
This is such a great collection of songs sung by Alison Krauss and some with her friends. Many of these songs are ballads with sad stories but Alison's voice rings clear as you hear her vocal range ring pure as mountain springs and you just feel her presence in the room through a good stereo system. I just cannot get enough of this clear clean sound as it is masterfully reproduced on this compact disc. Very Highly Recommended by The TimeKeeper.Free Music Review: Luscious!
Hit: 5 Stars
This album is just luscious from the first track to the last. I cannot get the songs out of my head and I cannot take the disc out of the player. The engineering is just as luscious as the music. Warm, rich and soulful. "Get me through December" is beautiful and a favorite. BTW I read a review that stated that it was too slow. That's fine. This album is for us that dont like a bunch of "hot damn, give it a slam" noise.Free Music Review: Beautiful & relaxing
Hit: 5 Stars
This is a wonderful CD! I am a new fan of Alison's and she has one of the most beautiful voices in music. All of the songs are great and I would recommend this CD to anyone who wants to hear relaxing and soothing music.Free Music Review: Celebrating Sorrow
Hit: 5 Stars
I fell in love with Alison when I discovered her first vocal album in 1988, made the year before when she was sixteen. I tracked back to her fiddle work with her brother, and have followed her career since. Though not always completely entranced by her subsequent work, I find her an extremely talented and fascinating musician.
I purchased the present album, "A Hundred Miles or More," this weekend while on a long drive and listened to it with my wife on the car's CD player. By the time we got to the last track, she was sobbing almost uncontrollably, and she begged me not to ever make her listen to it all the way through again. When we got home, I downloaded and printed the lyrics to all the songs, and I found that some were not so sad as they seemed in the first hearing. While several deal intensely with death and lost love, others are more upbeat when you read the lyrics apart from the performance. But the presentation, even of the more upbeat lyrics, tends to lean toward heartache and tragedy. The style seems to celebrate sorrow, even making apparent sorrow out of situations which are not of themselves inherently sorrowful.
But there can be beauty also in sorrow and suffering, and Alison's work here in this album radiates transcendent beauty. It is also a joy to hear her again on her fiddle--and this time also on the viola. Her fiddle work is absolutely first rate. The various songs range from story ballads in the traditional immigrant scot southern mountain manner to contemporary, and some contemporary work is written and performed in the old traditional style. The arrangements are perfectly suited to the intent of the songs. The dobro, banjo and mountain dulcimer--even the Hammond organ--are perfect in their places. Along with her other talents, Alison is a gifted producer, wonderfully pulling together all the pieces to make an outstanding total work.
A couple of quibbles: This is not her best rendition of "Down in the River to Pray." And PLEASE, Alison, could you PLEASE cut out the backbeat? It doesn't become you.
Free Music Review: A beautiful addition to Alison's resume
Hit: 5 Stars
Another beautiful cd from Ms. Alison. Love love love her voice and music! I have all of her albums, and this one is my new fave.