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Alison Krauss & Union Station: Arcadia review – a fresh start
The bluegrass star and band reconvene with a new co-vocalist on this slick yet understated set drawing on old-time roots and more recent concerns
The two swap lead vocals across 10 tracks whose often mournful subject matter naturally harks back to times past. The banjo-driven Richmond on the James records the dying words of a civil war soldier; Krauss’s pristine vocal hovers above the fray, surveying blood and feeling. Moore sings Granite Mills, a righteous broadside against the 1874 death of women and children locked into their fire-ravaged factory.
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