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It also won the Album of the Year Award at the 37th Academy of Country Music Awards and took home 2 International Bluegrass Music Awards: Album of the Year and Gospel Recorded Performance of the Year (for Alison Krauss and Gillian Welch on "I'll Fly Away"). [20] In 2006, the album ranked No. 38 on CMT's 40 Greatest Albums in Country Music.
Gillian Howard Welch (/ ˈ ɡ ɪ l i ən ˈ w ɛ l tʃ /; born October 2, 1967) is an American singer-songwriter.She performs with her musical partner, guitarist David Rawlings.Their sparse and dark musical style, which combines elements of Appalachian music, bluegrass, country and Americana, is described by The New Yorker as "at once innovative and obliquely reminiscent of past rural forms."
"I'll Fly Away" is a hymn written in 1929 by Albert E. Brumley and published in 1932 by the Hartford Music company in a collection titled Wonderful Message. [1] [2] Brumley's writing was influenced by the 1924 secular ballad, "The Prisoner's Song". "I'll Fly Away" has been called the most recorded gospel song.
Due to the exposure traditional bluegrass received alongside mainstream country music on radio and televised programs such as the Grand Ole Opry, a wave of young and not exclusively Southern musicians began replicating the genre's format on college campuses and in coffeehouses amidst the American folk music revival of the early 1960s. These ...
Documentarian D. A. Pennebaker, director of such musical documentary films as Dont Look Back and Monterey Pop, co-directed Down from the Mountain.. The concert portion of the film is preceded by a 30-minute section in which the various artists are seen rehearsing for the show, doing soundchecks, and talking backstage at the Ryman Auditorium.
The band's music is described by many to walk the fine line between soft traditional folk and bluegrass songwriting and resilient jamming. [20] Among all of the group's released recordings, The Infamous Stringdusters , Things That Fly and Laws of Gravity have been the most critically acclaimed.
I'll Fly Away: Edsel 1991 There Is a Time (1963–70) Vanguard: 1995 The Best of The Darlin' Boys: 1996 Roots and Branches/Tribute to the American Duck: Beat Goes On 2001 Back Porch Bluegrass & Live!!!! Almost!!! Warner Strategic Marketing: 2004 Pickin' and Fiddlin', Wheatstraw Suite & Copperfields: 2005 Let The Music Flow: The Best of the ...
Alison Maria Krauss (born July 23, 1971) is an American bluegrass-country singer, fiddler and producer. She entered the music industry at an early age, competing in local contests by the age of eight and recording for the first time at 14.