Forget About It

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Forget About It
Alison Krauss-Forget About It.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedAugust 3, 1999 (1999-08-03)
Recorded1999
StudioEmerald Sound Studios and Seventeen Grand Recording, Nashville, Tennessee
Genre Bluegrass, country, adult contemporary
Length40:13
Label Rounder
Producer Alison Krauss & Union Station
Alison Krauss chronology
So Long So Wrong
(1997)
Forget About It
(1999)
New Favorite
(2001)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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The Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [2]
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Forget About It is the fourth studio album by Alison Krauss, released in 1999. [4] It reached number 5 on the Billboard Country Albums chart. The lead single, "Forget About It", peaked at number 67 on the Country Singles Chart, and "Stay" reached number 28 on the Adult Contemporary chart.

Contents

Critical reception

Country Standard Time wrote that "despite the prominence of dobro and mandolin here, it's obvious that Krauss is a pop star more than anything else." [5]

Track listing

  1. "Stay" (Larry Byrom, Allyson Taylor) – 3:25
  2. "Forget About It" (Robert Lee Castleman) – 3:30
  3. "It Wouldn't Have Made Any Difference" (Todd Rundgren)– 4:28
  4. "Maybe" (Gordon Kennedy, Phil Madeira) – 3:47
  5. "Empty Hearts" (Michael McDonald, Michael Johnson) – 3:24
  6. "Never Got Off the Ground" (Danny O'Keefe) – 3:40
  7. "Ghost in This House" (Hugh Prestwood) – 4:04
  8. "It Don't Matter Now" (Michael McDonald) – 2:50
  9. "That Kind of Love" (Pat Bergeson, Michael McDonald) – 3:43
  10. "Could You Lie" (Ron Block) – 2:54
  11. "Dreaming My Dreams With You" (Allen Reynolds) – 4:28 (featuring Dolly Parton and Lyle Lovett)

Personnel

Production notes:

Chart performance

References

  1. "Forget About It - Alison Krauss | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic" via www.allmusic.com.
  2. Colin Larkin (2006). "Krauss, Alison". The Encyclopedia of Popular Music . Vol. 5 (4th ed.). Muze, Oxford University Press. p. 24. ISBN   978-0-19-531373-4.
  3. "Alison Krauss: Forget About It : Music Reviews : Rolling Stone". Rolling Stone . December 17, 2007. Archived from the original on December 17, 2007.
  4. "Alison Krauss | Biography & History". AllMusic.
  5. "Alison Krauss - Forget About It". www.countrystandardtime.com.
  6. "Alison Krauss Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved November 16, 2020.
  7. "Alison Krauss Chart History (Top Country Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved November 16, 2020.
  8. "Top Country Albums – Year-End 1999". Billboard. January 2, 2013. Retrieved November 16, 2020.
  9. "Top Country Albums – Year-End 2000". Billboard. January 2, 2013. Retrieved November 16, 2020.