Alison Maria Krauss is an American bluegrass-country singer and fiddler. 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. She signed with Rounder Records in 1985 and released her first solo album in 1987. She was invited to join Union Station,releasing her first album with them as a group in 1989 and performing with them ever since.
William Royce"Boz" Scaggs is an American singer,songwriter,and guitarist. He was a bandmate of Steve Miller in The Ardells in the early 1960s and the Steve Miller Band from 1967 to 1968.
James Ronald Horn is an American saxophonist,woodwind player,and session musician.
Other Roads is the tenth studio album by Boz Scaggs released in 1988. After an eight-year hiatus from recording,Scaggs returned in 1988 with this album,a record aimed primarily at the adult contemporary market.
Boz Scaggs is the second studio album by American musician Boz Scaggs,released in 1969 by Atlantic Records. A stylistically diverse album,Boz Scaggs incorporates several genres,including Americana,blue-eyed soul,country,and rhythm and blues. The lyrics are about typical themes found in blues songs,such as love,regret,guilt,and loss. Scaggs recorded the album at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio with producer Jann Wenner,the co-founder of Rolling Stone magazine. The Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section heavily contributed to the album,which included a young Duane Allman,before his rise to fame with the Allman Brothers Band.
"This Time the Dream's on Me" is a song composed by Harold Arlen,with lyrics by Johnny Mercer. It was written for the 1941 film Blues in the Night when it was sung by Priscilla Lane.
Raising Sand is the first collaborative studio album by rock singer Robert Plant and bluegrass-country singer Alison Krauss. It was released in October 2007 by Rounder Records. Raising Sand won Album of the Year at the 2008 Americana Music Honors &Awards and at the 2009 Grammy Awards.
Girls Go Wild is the alternate title of the 1979 debut studio album by the Texas-based blues rock band The Fabulous Thunderbirds. The album was an eponymous release,but due to the prominence of the words "Girls Go Wild" on the cover it has often been referred to by that name. The album was reissued via Benchmark Recordings in 2000.
"Lowdown" is a song originally recorded in 1976 by Boz Scaggs from his album Silk Degrees. The song was co-written by Scaggs and keyboardist David Paich. Paich,along with fellow "Lowdown" session musicians bassist David Hungate and drummer Jeff Porcaro,would later go on to form the band Toto.
Sharon Little is an American singer-songwriter from North Wales,Pennsylvania.
After the breakup of Led Zeppelin in 1980,Robert Plant pursued a successful solo career comprising eleven studio albums,two compilation albums,three video albums,four collaborative albums,and 42 singles. He began his solo career with Pictures at Eleven in 1982,followed by 1983's The Principle of Moments. Popular tracks from this period include "Big Log","In the Mood" (1984),"Little by Little","Tall Cool One",Manic Nirvana's "Hurting Kind " (1990),and "I Believe",another song written for and dedicated to his late son,Karac. In 1984,Plant formed a short-lived all-star group with Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck called the Honeydrippers,who had a No. 3 hit with a remake of the Phil Phillips' tune,"Sea of Love" and a follow-up hit with a cover of Roy Brown's "Rockin' at Midnight". Although Plant avoided performing Led Zeppelin songs through much of this period,his tours in 1983 and 1985 were very successful,often performing to sold-out arena-sized venues.
Gone,Gone,Gone is an album by the Everly Brothers,originally released in 1964. It was re-released on CD in 2005 on the Collectors' Choice Music label.
"Please Read the Letter" is a song originally written and recorded by Jimmy Page and Robert Plant for their 1998 album Walking into Clarksdale.
"Miss Sun" is a 1980 hit for Boz Scaggs first recorded in 1977 by David Paich along with David Hungate,Steve Lukather,and Jeff Porcaro.
McKinley James Millet,Jr. was an American rhythm and blues pianist,bass player,singer and songwriter,best known for co-writing and first performing the songs "Rich Woman" and "All Around the World" with his group,Li'l Millet and His Creoles.
Dorothy LaBostrie,later Dorothy LaBostrie Black,was an American songwriter,best known for co-writing Little Richard's 1955 hit "Tutti Frutti".
Paper Airplane is an album by Alison Krauss and Union Station. Released on April 12,2011,it was Krauss's 14th album and her first release with Union Station since Lonely Runs Both Ways in 2004. It includes cover versions of "My Opening Farewell" and "Dimming of the Day",originally recorded by Jackson Browne and Richard Thompson,respectively.
Memphis is the seventeenth studio album by American singer-songwriter Boz Scaggs. It was Scaggs's first solo release since 2008's Speak Low. The album was released on March 5,2013,by 429 Records. The album has debuted on Billboard 200 at No. 17,and has sold 90,000 copies in the US as of March 2015.
Raise the Roof is the second collaborative studio album by British singer-songwriter Robert Plant and American bluegrass-country singer and violinist Alison Krauss. The album was released on November 19,2021,by Rounder Records and Concord Records in the United States and Warner Music for the rest of the world. The album was nominated for three Grammy Awards at the 65th Annual Grammy Awards,including Best Americana Album,Best American Roots Song for "High and Lonesome," and Best Country Duo/Group Performance for "Going Where the Lonely Go".
"Can't Let Go" is a song written by American singer-songwriter Randy Weeks,made famous by Lucinda Williams in 1998–1999. Williams released "Can't Let Go" as a single from her album Car Wheels on a Gravel Road,and the song entered the Billboard Adult Alternative Airplay chart in December 1998,peaking at number 14 in March 1999,staying on the chart for 13 weeks. Williams earned a Grammy nomination for the song in the category Best Female Rock Vocal Performance. Weeks released his own version of the song in 2000,on his album Madeline.
