Arcadia
Union Station's first album in fourteen years, with Russell Moore in place of Dan Tyminski.
Alison Krauss, 2025
- Released
- 28 March 2025
- Label
- Down the Road
- Producer
- Alison Krauss & Union Station
- Length
- 35:52
Gary Paczosa recorded and mixed it, Neal Cappellino recorded the vocals, strings and piano, Brad Blackwood mastered it, and Buddy Cannon co-produced two tracks, One Ray of Shine and Richmond on the James. Russell Moore, formerly of IIIrd Tyme Out, sings lead and baritone. Tyminski stepped back from touring but still plays guitar and mandolin on the record. In The Guardian, Kitty Empire wrote that Richmond on the James records the dying words of a civil war soldier, and Granite Mills, which Moore sings, is about the 1874 deaths of women and children locked into a burning factory. The Hangman adapts a 1951 poem by Maurice Ogden, and Krauss was drawn to Looks Like the End of the Road, by Jeremy Lister, during the pandemic.
Mojo gave it four stars and PopMatters nine out of ten. It reached number one on the Top Bluegrass Albums chart and on the UK country albums chart, and scored 84 on Metacritic.
Track listing
- Looks Like the End of the Road3:39
- The Hangman3:37
- The Wrong Way3:35
- Granite Mills3:40
- One Ray of Shine4:03
- Richmond on the James3:27
- North Side Gal2:36
- Forever3:40
- Snow3:23
- There's a Light Up Ahead4:14
Personnel
- Alison Krauss vocals, fiddle, string arrangements
- Russell Moore lead and baritone vocals
- Dan Tyminski guitar, mandolin
- Ron Block banjo, guitar
- Barry Bales bass, vocals
- Jerry Douglas Dobro, lap steel, Weissenborn guitar
- Viktor Krauss piano, string arrangements
- Adam Steffey mandolin on two tracks
- Stuart Duncan fiddle on North Side Gal
- Jeff Taylor accordion on one track
- Gary Paczosa recording, mixing
- Brad Blackwood mastering
More from Alison Krauss
Every Time You Say Goodbye (1992), Now That I've Found You: A Collection (1995), So Long So Wrong (1997), Forget About It (1999), New Favorite (2001), Live (2002), Lonely Runs Both Ways (2004), Raising Sand (2007), Paper Airplane (2011), Windy City (2017), Raise the Roof (2021)
Sources
- Arcadia (Alison Krauss & Union Station album), Wikipedia
- Alison Krauss & Union Station: Arcadia, Discogs
- Alison Krauss & Union Station: Arcadia review, The Guardian (2025-03-28)
- Alison Krauss and Union Station, Arcadia, reviewed, Mojo (2025-03-25)
- Alison Krauss & Union Station: Arcadia, PopMatters (2025-04-03)
- Alison Krauss on Arcadia, GRAMMY.com (2025-03-31)