Lucky One cover Shannon King

Lyrics

You're the lucky one

So I've been told

As free as the wind

Blowing down the road

Loved by many, hated by none

I'd say you're lucky 'cause I know what you've done

Not a care in the world

Not a worry in sight

Everything's gonna be alright

'Cause you're the lucky one

You're the lucky one

Always having fun

A jack of all trades, a master of none

You look at the world with a smiling eye

And laugh at the devil as his train goes by

Give you a song and a one night stand

And you'll be looking at a happy man

'Cause you're the lucky one

Well, you're blessed, I guess

By never knowing which road you're choosing

To you the next best thing

To playing and winning is playing and losing

You're the lucky one

I know that now

Don't ask you why, when, where, or how

You look at the world through your smiling eye

And laugh at the devil as his train goes by

Give you a song and a one night stand

And you'll be looking at a happy man

'Cause you're the lucky one

Well, you're blessed I guess

By never knowing which road you're choosing

To you the next best thing

To playing and winning is playing and losing

You're the lucky one, I know that now

Don't ask you why, when, where, or how

No matter where you're at, it's where you'll be

You can bet your luck won't follow me

Just give you a song and a one night stand

You'll be looking at a happy man

'Cause you're the lucky one

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Songwriters: Robert Lee Castleman

The Lucky One lyrics © Taylor Swift Music

About Allison Krauss: "Alison Maria Krauss (born July 23, 1971) is an American bluegrass-country singer and musician. She entered the music industry at an early age, winning local contests by the age of 10 and recording for the first time at 14. She signed with Rounder Records in 1985 and released her first solo album in 1987. She was invited to join the band with which she still performs, Alison Krauss and Union Station, and later released her first album with them as a group in 1989.[1]

She has released fourteen albums, appeared on numerous soundtracks, and she sparked a renewed interest in bluegrass music in the United States. Her soundtrack performances have led to further popularity, including the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack, and the Cold Mountain soundtrack, which led to her performance at the 2004 Academy Awards.

As of 2019, she has won 27 Grammy Awards from 42 nominations,[2] ranking her third behind Quincy Jones and classical conductor Georg Solti for most Grammy Award wins.[3] She is the most awarded singer and the most awarded female artist in Grammy history.[4] At the time of her first, the 1991 Grammy Awards, she was the second-youngest winner (currently tied as the ninth-youngest). On November 21, 2019, she was awarded the National Medal of Arts by President Donald Trump.[5]

lison Maria Krauss[6] was born in Decatur, Illinois,[7][8][a] to Fred and Louise Krauss. Her father was a German immigrant who came to the United States in 1952 at age 12, and taught his native language while he earned a doctorate in psychology. He later went into the business of real estate. Her mother, an American of German and Italian descent, is the daughter of artists, and works as an illustrator of magazines and textbooks.[9] Fred and Louise met while they were studying at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.[10] After a brief residence in nearby Decatur, the family settled in Champaign, where Krauss was raised with her older brother, Viktor.[11]

Krauss's mother played banjo and acoustic guitar,[9] so Krauss was exposed to folk music at home, and she heard rock and pop music on the radio: she liked Gary Numan's synth-pop song "Cars", and rock bands such as Foreigner, Bad Company and Electric Light Orchestra.[12] Her brother Viktor played piano and double bass in high school, launching a career as a jazz and rock multi-instrumentalist.[13] At her mother's insistence, Krauss began studying classical violin at age five.[14] Krauss was reluctant to spend time practicing, but she continued with classical lessons until she was eleven.[15] Krauss said her mother "tried to find interesting things for me to do" and "wanted to get me involved in music, in addition to art and sports".[16] Krauss was also very active in roller skating, and in her teens she finally decided on a career in music rather than roller derby.[14][17]

In mid-1979, Krauss's mother saw a notice for an upcoming fiddle competition at the Champaign County Fair, so she bought a bluegrass fiddle instruction book and the 1977 bluegrass album Duets by violinist Richard Greene. Krauss learned by ear to play several songs from the album, including "Tennessee Waltz" which she practiced on violin with her mother accompanying on guitar. Krauss entered the talent contest in the novice category at the age of eight, placing fourth.[18] (This is where she first met fiddler Andrea Zonn who won the junior division at age 10.[19]) Krauss investigated the bluegrass genre more thoroughly after this, and she developed a knack for learning complex riffs by ear, quickly turning them into her own version.[9] In 1981–82, Krauss performed with Marvin Lee Flessner's country dance band in which she fiddled and sang. In September 1983, her parents bought her a custom violin made by hand in Missouri – her first adult-sized instrument.[15] At 13, she won the Walnut Valley Festival Fiddle Championship,[20] and the Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass in America named her the "Most Promising Fiddler in the Midwest".[21] She was also called "virtuoso" by Vanity Fair magazine.[22]

Krauss first met Dan Tyminski around 1984 at a festival held by the Society. Every current member of her band, Union Station, first met her at these festivals.[23]

1985–1991: Early career

Krauss made her recording debut in 1985 on the independent album, Different Strokes, featuring her brother Viktor Krauss, Swamp Weiss and Jim Hoiles. From the age of 12 she performed with bassist and songwriter John Pennell in a band called "Silver Rail", replacing Andrea Zonn.[24] Pennell later changed the band's name to Union Station after another band was discovered with the name Silver Rail.[25]

Later that year, she signed to Rounder Records, and in 1987, at 16, she released her debut album Too Late to Cry with Union Station as her backup band.[26]

Krauss' debut solo album was quickly followed by her first group album with Union Station in 1989, Two Highways.[27] The album includes the traditional tunes "Wild Bill Jones" and "Beaumont Rag", along with a bluegrass interpretation of the Allman Brothers' "Midnight Rider".

Krauss' contract with Rounder required her to alternate between releasing a solo album and an album with Union Station,[28] and she released the solo album I've Got That Old Feeling in 1990. It was her first album to rise onto the Billboard charts, peaking in the top seventy-five on the country chart. The album also was a notable point in her career as she earned her first Grammy Award, the single "Steel Rails" was her first single tracked by Billboard, and the title single "I've Got That Old Feeling" was the first song for which she recorded a music video.

Krauss' second Union Station album Every Time You Say Goodbye was released in 1992, and she went on to win her second Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album of the year. She then joined the Grand Ole Opry in 1993 at the age of 21.[27] She was the youngest cast member at the time, and the first bluegrass artist to join the Opry in twenty-nine years.[29][30][31] She also collaborated on a project with the Cox Family in 1994, a bluegrass album called I Know Who Holds Tomorrow. Mandolin and guitar player Dan Tyminski replaced Tim Stafford in Union Station in 1994. Late in the year, Krauss recorded with the band Shenandoah on its single "Somewhere in the Vicinity of the Heart", which brought her to the country music Top Ten for the first time and it won the Grammy Award for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals. Also in 1994, Krauss collaborated with Suzy Bogguss, Kathy Mattea, and Crosby, Stills, and Nash to contribute "Teach Your Children" to the AIDS benefit album Red Hot + Country produced by the Red Hot Organization. In 1997, she recorded vocals and violin for "Half a Mind", on Tommy Shaw's 7 Deadly Zens album.

Now That I've Found You: A Collection, a compilation of older releases and some covers of her favorite works by other artists, was released in 1995. Some of these covers include Bad Company's "Oh Atlanta", the Foundations' & Dan Schafer's "Baby, Now That I've Found You", which was used in the Australian hit comedy movie The Castle, and the Beatles' "I Will" with Tony Furtado.[32] A cover of Keith Whitley's "When You Say Nothing at All" reached number three on the Billboard country chart;[33] the album peaked in the top fifteen on the all-genre Billboard 200 chart, and sold two million copies to become Krauss' first double-platinum album.[34] Krauss also was nominated for four Country Music Association Awards and won all of them.[35]

So Long So Wrong, another Union Station album, was released in 1997 and won the Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album. One critic said its sound was "rather untraditional" and "likely [to] change quite a few ... minds about bluegrass."[36] Included on the album is the track "It Doesn't Matter", which was featured in the second-season premiere episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer[37] and was included on the Buffy soundtrack in 1999.

Her next solo release in 1999, Forget About It, included one of her two tracks to appear on the Billboard adult contemporary chart, "Stay". The album was certified gold and charted within the top seventy-five of the Billboard 200 and in the top five of the country chart. In addition, the track "That Kind of Love" was included in another episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.[38]

2000–present: Current career

Adam Steffey left Union Station in 1998, and was replaced with renowned dobro player Jerry Douglas.[39] Douglas had provided studio back-up to Krauss' records since 1987's Too Late to Cry. Their next album, New Favorite, was released on August 14, 2001. The album went on to win the Grammy for Best Bluegrass Album, with the single "The Lucky One" winning a Grammy as well. New Favorite was followed up by the double platinum double album Live in 2002 and a release of a DVD of the same live performance in 2003. Both the album and the DVD were recorded during a performance at The Louisville Palace and both the album and DVD have been certified double Platinum. Also in 2002 she played a singing voice for one of the characters in Eight Crazy Nights.

Lonely Runs Both Ways was released in 2004, and eventually became another Alison Krauss & Union Station gold certified album. Ron Block described Lonely Runs Both Ways as "pretty much... what we've always done" in terms of song selection and the style, in which those songs were recorded.[40] Krauss believes the group "was probably the most unprepared we've ever been" for the album and that songs were chosen as needed rather than planned beforehand.[16] She also performed a duet with Brad Paisley on his album Mud on the Tires in the single "Whiskey Lullaby". The single was quickly ranked in the top fifty of the Billboard Hot 100 and the top five of the Hot Country Songs, and won the Country Music Association Awards for "Best Musical Event" and "Best Music Video" of the year.

In 2007, Krauss and Robert Plant released the collaborative album titled Raising Sand. RIAA-certified platinum, the album was nominated for and won 5 Grammy Awards[41][42] at the 51st Annual Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year, Best Contemporary Folk/Americana Album, and Record of the Year ("Please Read the Letter"). Krauss and Plant recorded a Crossroads special in October 2007 for the Country Music Television network, which first aired on February 12, 2008.

Krauss in 2007

Returning with Union Station, Krauss released an album called Paper Airplane on April 12, 2011,[43] the follow-up album to Lonely Runs Both Ways (2004). Mike Shipley, the recording and mixing engineer for the album, said that it took a lot of time to do the album because of Krauss' non-stop migraines.[44][45]

In 2014, Krauss and her band Union Station toured with Willie Nelson and Family, with special guests Kacey Musgraves, and the Devil Makes Three.[46][47]

Capitol Records released Windy City, an album of country and bluegrass classics, produced by Buddy Cannon and her first solo release in 17 years, on February 17, 2017.[48] Krauss received two nominations at the 60th Annual Grammy Awards for Best Country Solo Performance and Best American Roots Performance."(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alison_Krauss).