Alison Krauss & Union Station Announce 1st Album in 14 Years, “Arcadia”

Photo: Randee St Nicholas


Near the end of 2024, legendary bluegrass collective Alison Krauss and Union Station announced their reunification for the first time in a decade, with some 75+ shows to transpire over the coming year. Now we get confirmation of a new album on the way called Arcadia. It will be released on March 28th by Down The Road Records owned in part by Ken Irwin, who Krauss signed with as a 14-year-old bluegrass prodigy.

Joining Krauss in Union Station will be Jerry Douglas (Dobro, lap steel, vocals), Ron Block (banjo, guitar, vocals) and Barry Bales (bass, vocals), along with newest member Russell Moore from the bluegrass band IIIrd Tyme Out. As the band’s frontman, Moore won six IBMA Awards as Male Vocalist of the Year. He helps replace Dan Tyminski who is focused more on his solo career these days, but does appear in the songwriting credits for the new record.

Alison Krauss herself contributes the song “Richmond on the James” to the new album, co written with G.T. Burgess. But mostly she assembles songs written by others for the first album with Union Station in 14 years. This includes covering JD McPherson’s “North Side Gal”—a song perhaps Krauss was exposed to when McPherson was playing guitar behind Krauss and Robert Plant.



Alison Krauss says about the songs on the new album,

“The stories of the past are told in this music. It’s that whole idea of ‘in the good old days when times were bad.’ There’s so much bravery and valor and loyalty and dreaming, of family and themes of human existence that were told in a certain way when our grandparents were alive. Someone asked me, ‘How do you sing these tragic tunes?’ I have to. It’s a calling. I feel privileged to be a messenger of somebody else’s story. And I want to hear what happened.”

Ahead of the new album, the opening track “Looks Like The End Of The Road” has been released, with the distinct tones of the Jerry Douglas dobro complimenting the tune. “It just felt so alive – and as always, I could hear the guys already playing it,” Krauss says of the song.

Collectively, the current members of Alison Krauss and Union Station have 70 Grammy nominations between them. Both their upcoming tour starting in April, as well as Arcadia will be highly anticipated in the Americana/bluegrass world and beyond.

Arcadia is now available for pre-save/preorder.

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Track List:

1. Looks Like The End Of The Road (Jeremy Lister)
2. The Hangman (Viktor Krauss & Maurice Ogden)
3. The Wrong Way (Robert Lee Castleman & Dan Tyminski)
4. Granite Mills (Timothy Eriksen)
5. One Ray Of Shine (Sarah Siskind & Viktor Krauss)
6. Richmond On The James (Alison Krauss & G.T. Burgess)
7. North Side Gal (Jonathan David McPherson)
8. Forever (Robert Lee Castleman)
9. Snow (Bob Lucas)
10. There’s A Light Up Ahead (Jeremy Lister)

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