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Alison Krauss – Multi-Grammy winner Singer/songwriter Alison Krauss’ 12th studio album “Paper Airplane” lands in stores today.
Alison Krauss spoke to UK Telegraph about her single “Dimming of the Day” by songwriter Richard Thompson.
“I’ve just not woken up and thought, I must do this. But I have often heard music that I have instantly felt, I have to sing that song.”
“I’ve never met Richard Thompson but I heard the song from T-Bone Burnett when we were working on the second version of Raising Sand.
“When I heard the song, I thought ‘Oh, I can’t take that on. Oh, I can’t. But T-Bone said ‘give it a shot’. We moved on to another project but I kept thinking about the song and how I could make it OK. Then I thought, well nobody has done a bluegrass version so we tried making it more sparse.
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Alison Krauss – Alison Krauss ‘Paper Airplane’ Album Lands In Stores Today