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Alison Krauss and Union Station Return With First Album Since (Sheesh) Obama’s First Term
Alison Krauss & Union Station announce new album 'Arcadia,' their first album since 2011.
The song titles alone — “The Hangman,” “Granite Mills,” “Richmond on the James,” “North Side Gal” — conjure a mythic dust-bowl America. “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. In light of the jarring transition of power in D.C. right now, the song’s chorus — “Goodbye to the world that I know/Looks like the end of the road” — could serve as an unintentional soundtrack to whatever lies ahead.
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