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List Price: $18.98 | | Label: Rounder / Umgd
Salesrank: 143235
Released: November 19, 2002 |
| Our Price: $194.79 |
| Used Price: $55.97 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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New Favorite Track Listing:
1. Let Me Touch You for Awhile
2. Boy Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn - Alison Krauss, Union Station
3. Lucky One
4. Choctaw Hayride
5. Crazy Faith
6. Momma Cried
7. I'm Gone
8. Daylight
9. Bright Sunny South
10. Stars
11. It All Comes Down to You
12. Take Me for Longing
13. New Favorite
Editorial Review:
After her 1999 gold release, Forget About It, Alison Krauss has found additional success as part of the soundtrack to O Brother, Where Art Thou?--an album that's done more to advance the cause of bluegrass since Bill Monroe first conjured the music out of the hills of western Kentucky. While Forget About It showcased the more contemporary part of Krauss's musical equation and the O Brother soundtrack spotlighted the more traditional, New Favorite combines the approaches in balancing the softer sounds with the rougher-edged material. Krauss particularly shines on the soulful title tune of love gone cold, her vocal--softer than a cloud and more intimate than a midnight kiss--threatening to steal your breath away. However, it's mostly the older sounds that you'll remember from this largely somber album, one that telegraphs uncertainty, doom, and the promise of bloodshed throughout much of the repertoire. On "Momma Cried," a song about a child-snatching that tore a family asunder, Dan Tyminski's tenor vocals rise above a wailing Dobro, a driving banjo, and a thumping, anchoring bass to convey unspeakable pain. Too many of the pop-minded songs fall flat in comparison, but although this may not be the group's best effort overall, no other crossover bluegrass band begins to meet their mark either musically or emotionally, as New Favorite so amply shows. --Alanna Nash
New Favorite Reviews:
Aptly Titled 
2009-07-25 - Alison Krauss and Union Station continue to amaze with their ability to dig into American music both old and new. They combine the best of bluegrass, country, and folk and make it all sound organic. Two of the best songs in this set are by Robert Lee Castleman, a writer whose name should be a household word but isn't, alas. Castleman's songs are little stories; he is something of the Raymond Carver of country music (not to be confused with Robert Carver of audiophile fame). With expressive singing and energetic playing, the band provides solid musicianship from start to finish, and the recording quality is excellent. For old fans and new fans alike, this CD is aptly named.
More classic bluegrass, who needs country? 
2009-04-06 - Alison and the boys strike gold again. I've only just got this album and I love it already. In fact after sampling some of Dan Tyminsky's own albums on Amazon, it reinforces my liking of this album and all the performances within.
So many fans can't be all wrong!
2008-02-10 - Actually, I'm not a very big Alison Krauss fan. Her voice can grate on my nerves and it's often the music, despite her voice, that I end up liking so much. But this CD has one very strong thing going for it; "Let me touch you for a while" has got to be one of the sexiest songs in who-knew-grass! It's intimate, the guitar playing is fabulous, and Krauss's voice suits it perfectly. It's worth buying the CD just to burn that song on your i-pod and support AK & US in the hopes that they produce another hit song like this one.
Do NOT pass this up
2007-06-18 - I never knew I liked Bluegrass until I heard Alison Kraus and Union Station. Her voice is clear and sweet yet she can roar like a lion. The banjos and other instruments are played like they're on fire. I love this music!
Awesome
2007-05-17 - Great mix of bluegrass banjo, fiddle, and Alison. Even my two year old loves the banjo. Very well put together.
