Artist

Alison Krauss & Union Station

Wins

14

Nominations

20

Category

American Roots Music Country General

Biography

"As soon as the five of us play together, we don't sound like we do with anybody else." — Jerry Douglas

  • Members: Barry Bales, Ron Block, Jerry Douglas, Alison Krauss, Dan Tyminski
     
  • Formed 1987 in Decatur, Ill.
     
  • Union Station, often billed as Alison Krauss & Union Station, recorded their first album backing Krauss in 1987, Two Highways. The group's 2001 album, New Favorite, was their first to break the Top 40 on the Billboard 200, hitting No. 35.
     
  • Alison Krauss & Union Station earned their first GRAMMY for 1992 for Every Time You Say Goodbye, which took home Best Bluegrass Album honors. The band performed onstage multiple times at the 39th GRAMMY Awards in 1997 during a country music segment with Vince Gill and Patty Loveless, and a bluegrass tribute to Bill Monroe.
     
  • Alison Krauss & Union Station's "It Doesn't Matter," a song from 1997's So Long So Wrong, was featured in the season two premiere of the hit TV show "Buffy The Vampire Slayer."
     
  • The group performed "No More Lonely Nights" at the 2012 MusiCares Person of the Year tribute gala honoring Paul McCartney. The annual Person of the Year gala raises funds for MusiCares, which provides services and resources that cover a wide range of financial, medical and personal emergencies for music people.
     
  • In 2015 Alison Krauss & Union Station performed at a Feed the Need concert in Alton, Ill., to raise money and awareness for Senior Services Plus' Meals on Wheels program.

 

All Grammy Awards and Nominations for Alison Krauss & Union Station

  • Best Bluegrass Album

    Arcadia

    Ron Block, Alison Krauss & Union Station, Barry Bales, Jerry Douglas, Alison Krauss, Russell Moore

  • Best American Roots Performance

    Richmond On The James

    Ron Block, Alison Krauss & Union Station, Barry Bales, Jerry Douglas, Alison Krauss, Russell Moore

  • Best Bluegrass Album Winner

    Paper Airplane

    Ron Block, Mike Shipley, Dan Tyminski, Alison Krauss & Union Station, Barry Bales, Jerry Douglas, Neal Cappellino, Alison Krauss

  • Best Contemporary Country Album Winner

    Lonely Runs Both Ways

    Ron Block, Gary Paczosa, Dan Tyminski, Alison Krauss & Union Station, Barry Bales, Jerry Douglas, Alison Krauss

  • Country Instrumental Performance Winner

    Unionhouse Branch

    Ron Block, Dan Tyminski, Alison Krauss & Union Station, Barry Bales, Jerry Douglas, Alison Krauss

  • Country Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals Winner

    Restless

    Ron Block, Dan Tyminski, Alison Krauss & Union Station, Barry Bales, Jerry Douglas, Alison Krauss

  • Country Collaboration With Vocal

    Coat Of Many Colors

    Ron Block, Dan Tyminski, Shania Twain, Alison Krauss & Union Station, Barry Bales, Alison Krauss

  • Best Bluegrass Album Winner

    Live

    Ron Block, Gary Paczosa, Dan Tyminski, Alison Krauss & Union Station, Barry Bales, Jerry Douglas, Alison Krauss

  • Country Instrumental Performance Winner

    Cluck Old Hen

    Ron Block, Dan Tyminski, Alison Krauss & Union Station, Barry Bales, Jerry Douglas, Alison Krauss

  • Best Bluegrass Album Winner

    New Favorite

    Ron Block, Gary Paczosa, Dan Tyminski, Alison Krauss & Union Station, Barry Bales, Jerry Douglas, Alison Krauss

  • Country Instrumental Performance

    Choctaw Hayride

    Ron Block, Dan Tyminski, Alison Krauss & Union Station, Barry Bales, Jerry Douglas, Alison Krauss

  • Country Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals Winner

    The Lucky One

    Ron Block, Dan Tyminski, Alison Krauss & Union Station, Barry Bales, Jerry Douglas, Alison Krauss

  • Album Of The Year Winner

    O Brother, Where Art Thou? - Soundtrack

    Harley Allen, Nathan Best, Ron Block, Norman Blake, T Bone Burnett, Pat Enright, Sidney Cox, Willard Cox, Robert Hamlett, Chris Thomas King, Peter Kurland, Sarah Peasall, Hannah Peasall, Leah Peasall, Joseph Rice, Chris Sharp, Dan Tyminski, Buck White, Sharon White-Skaggs, Sam Bush, Cox Family, Alison Krauss & Union Station, The Whites, Mike Compton, James Hill, Gavin Lurssen, Tim Blake Nelson, Barry Bales, John Hartford, Jerry Douglas, Stuart Duncan, Isaac Freeman, Evelyn Cox, Suzanne Cox, Emmylou Harris, Mike Piersante, Wilson Waters, Jr., Ralph Stanley, Peasall Sisters, Cheryl White, Gillian Welch, Fairfield Four, Alison Krauss

  • Country Instrumental Performance Winner

    Little Liza Jane

    Ron Block, Adam Steffey, Dan Tyminski, Alison Krauss & Union Station, Barry Bales, Alison Krauss

  • Country Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals Winner

    Looking In The Eyes Of Love

    Ron Block, Adam Steffey, Dan Tyminski, Alison Krauss & Union Station, Barry Bales, Alison Krauss

  • Best Bluegrass Album Winner

    So Long So Wrong

    Ron Block, Adam Steffey, Dan Tyminski, Alison Krauss & Union Station, Barry Bales, Alison Krauss

  • Country Collaboration With Vocal Winner

    High Lonesome Sound

    Ron Block, Adam Steffey, Dan Tyminski, Alison Krauss & Union Station, Barry Bales, Vince Gill, Alison Krauss

  • Country Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals

    When You Say Nothing At All (Track)

    Ron Block, Adam Steffey, Dan Tyminski, Alison Krauss & Union Station, Barry Bales, Alison Krauss

  • Best Bluegrass Album Winner

    Every Time You Say Goodbye

    Ron Block, Adam Steffey, Alison Krauss & Union Station, Barry Bales, Tim Stafford, Alison Krauss

  • Best Bluegrass Album

    Two Highways (Album)

    Alison Krauss & Union Station, Mike Harmon, John Pennell, Jeff White, Alison Krauss

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