As you may have guessed from several posts I’ve written before, Alison Krauss and Union Station are probably my favorite musicians of all time. But I had never seen them in concert until last week, and man, was it ever worth the wait. They were fabulous. Their latest tour was going to pretty much every city all around us, but not here, but Joy was extremely nice to me and let us head up to Lexington, Kentucky last Tuesday, where I had managed to get 9th row seats for the concert (by clicking my trusty web browser “refresh” button like a madman when the tickets went on sale at Ticketmaster several months ago).
They started off with “Every Time You Say Goodbye”, which is my favorite older song of theirs, and finished with “A Living Prayer”, a beautiful song from their most recent studio album. Between those two they nailed one great song after another. “The Boy Who Wouldn’t Hoe Corn”, “Faraway Land”, “Forget About It”, “Ghost In This House”, “Goodbye Is All We Have”, “I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow”, “Let Me Touch You For Awhile”, “The Lucky One”, “Oh, Atlanta”, “Restless”, “When You Say Nothing At All”, and many more. For finally getting to see them after all these years, their concert certainly didn’t let me down. I would have loved to have heard, “Crazy As Me”, “Gravity”, and “New Favorite”, but they have so many good songs, I can understand why they can’t get to everything in one concert.
