Alison Krauss & Union Station announce new album Arcadia

A month after unveiling their first tour in a decade, Alison Krauss & Union Station are again with the announcement of their first new album in 14 years: Arcadia, due on March twenty eighth.

Seeing Krauss reunite with band members Jerry Douglas, Ron Block, and Barry Bales — together with new addition Russell Moore — Arcadia will span 10 new songs, together with the lead single, “Seems Just like the Finish of the Highway,” which arrived in the present day.

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The album may also mark yet one more collaboration with Krauss and Rounder Information founders Ken Irwin, Marian Leighton Levy, Invoice Nowlin, and John Virant, who first signed her when she was 14 years previous. Arriving through their new label, Down the Highway Information, the brand new album was self-produced by the band itself, and options writing contributions from collaborators like Robert Lee Castleman, Viktor Krauss, Bob Lucas, JD McPherson, Sarah Siskind, and others.

Talking about Arcadia in an announcement, Krauss touched on the album’s themes of historical past, saying “The tales of the previous are instructed on this music. It’s that complete concept of ‘within the good previous days when instances have been dangerous.’ There’s a lot bravery and valor and loyalty and dreaming, of household and themes of human existence that have been instructed in a sure manner when our grandparents have been alive.”

Persevering with, she mentioned, “Somebody requested me, ‘How do you sing these tragic tunes?’ I’ve to. It’s a calling. I really feel privileged to be a messenger of any person else’s story. And I wish to hear what occurred.”

As for the only, “Seems Just like the Finish of the Highway,” it was reportedly the track that “reunited the band and reignited their focus,” in keeping with a press launch. For her half, Krauss defined, “Often, I discover one thing that’s a primary track, after which issues fall into place. That track was ‘Seems Just like the Finish of the Highway.’ Jeremy Lister wrote it, and it simply felt so alive — and as all the time, I might hear the blokes already taking part in it.” Stream the only beneath.

As for his or her 2025 tour dates, Alison Krauss & Union Station will hit the highway on April seventeenth, shortly after the arrival of Arcadia. On the sprawling tour, they’ll carry out in Atlanta, Memphis, Chicago, Omaha, Phoenix, Los Angeles, Toronto, Nashville, and lots of extra cities. Get tickets right here.

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