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Alison Krauss has spent more than four decades demonstrating how much feeling can be carried by a quiet voice, a carefully played fiddle, and a great song. Born in Decatur, Illinois, in 1971 and raised in Champaign, she began studying violin as a young child before falling in love with bluegrass. Her first major recordings appeared while she was still a teenager, and the 1987 album Too Late to Cry introduced an artist whose instrumental abilities were every bit as impressive as her singing.
Working with Union Station, Krauss helped bluegrass reach listeners who might never have considered themselves fans of the genre. The albums Two Highways, Every Time You Say Goodbye, and So Long So Wrong balanced instrumental showcases with outstanding vocal performances. Her 1995 compilation Now That I’ve Found You: A Collection brought together earlier recordings and important new material, including her versions of “Baby, Now That I’ve Found You” and “When You Say Nothing at All.”
Krauss and Union Station continued to develop their sound on New Favorite, Lonely Runs Both Ways, and Paper Airplane, while her solo releases Forget About It and Windy City showed her affection for country ballads beyond the usual bluegrass setting. She also reached a wider audience through the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack and collaborations with artists ranging from Brad Paisley and James Taylor to Dolly Parton and Vince Gill. Her fiddle playing and harmony vocals have made her a valued guest musician on countless recordings.
Another important chapter began when she joined Robert Plant for Raising Sand in 2007. Their musical partnership, built around unusual song choices and restrained arrangements, earned major Grammy Awards and eventually continued with Raise the Roof in 2021. Alison Krauss and Union Station returned with Arcadia in 2025, and Krauss also appeared with Luke Combs on the 2026 duet “Ever Mine.” The songs below span her solo work, Union Station albums, collaborative releases, soundtracks, tribute recordings, and officially issued rarities.
Complete List Of Alison Krauss Songs From A to Z
0–E
- “9 to 5” – Just Because I’m a Woman: Songs of Dolly Parton (2003)
- “A Living Prayer” – Lonely Runs Both Ways (2004)
- “A Place Outside” – Paper Airplane (Target deluxe edition) (2011)
- “A Tribute to Peador O’Donnell / Monkey Let the Hogs Out” – Live (2002)
- “Across the Universe” – Across the Universe (tsunami relief single) (2005), with various artists
- “All Alone Am I” – Windy City (2017)
- “Amazing Grace” – Believe (2020), with Andrea Bocelli
- “Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground” – Windy City (Deluxe Edition) (2017)
- “Another Day, Another Dollar” – Every Time You Say Goodbye (1992)
- “Another Night” – Every Time You Say Goodbye (1992)
- “As Lovely as You” – Two Highways (1989)
- “Away Down the River” – A Hundred Miles or More: A Collection (2007)
- “Baby Mine” – The Best of Country Sing the Best of Disney (1996)
- “Baby, Now That I’ve Found You” – Now That I’ve Found You: A Collection (1995)
- “Back in Love Again” – The Best Kept Secret (2005), with Jerry Douglas
- “Beaumont Rag” – Two Highways (1989)
- “Before the Deluge (Arr. Caroline Shaw)” – Before the Deluge (Arr. Caroline Shaw) (single) (2021), with Renée Fleming, Rhiannon Giddens and Yannick Nézet-Séguin
- “Blue Blue Day” – I Can’t Stop Loving You: The Songs of Don Gibson (2014), with Mandy Barnett
- “Blue Trail of Sorrow” – So Long So Wrong (1997)
- “Bonita and Bill Butler” – Paper Airplane (2011)
- “Borderline” – Lonely Runs Both Ways (2004)
- “Bright Sunny South” – New Favorite (2001)
- “Broadway” – Now That I’ve Found You: A Collection (1995)
- “But You Know I Love You” – Live (2002)
- “Buy Me a Rose” – She Rides Wild Horses (1999), with Kenny Rogers and Billy Dean
- “Can’t Find My Way Home” – Crossing Jordan (soundtrack) (2003)
- “Can’t Let Go” – Raise the Roof (2021), with Robert Plant
- “Carolina Moon” – See You Tonight (2013), with Scotty McCreery
- “Choctaw Hayride” – New Favorite (2001)
- “Cloudy Days” – Every Time You Say Goodbye (1992)
- “Cluck Old Hen” – Every Time You Say Goodbye (1992)
- “Coat of Many Colors” – Just Because I’m a Woman: Songs of Dolly Parton (2003), with Shania Twain
- “Come Find Me” – Southern Drawl (2015), with Alabama
- “Could You Lie” – Forget About It (1999)
- “Crazy as Me” – Lonely Runs Both Ways (2004)
- “Crazy Faith” – New Favorite (2001)
- “Dark Skies” – I’ve Got That Old Feeling (1990)
- “Daylight” – New Favorite (2001)
- “Deeper Than Crying” – So Long So Wrong (1997)
- “Didn’t Leave Nobody but the Baby” – O Brother, Where Art Thou? (soundtrack) (2000), with Emmylou Harris and Gillian Welch
- “Dimming of the Day” – Paper Airplane (2011)
- “Do This Life” – Way Back (2023), with High Valley
- “Doesn’t Have to Be This Way” – Lonely Runs Both Ways (2004)
- “Don’t Follow Me” – Too Late to Cry (1987)
- “Down to the River to Pray” – O Brother, Where Art Thou? (soundtrack) (2000)
- “Dream of Me” – Windy City (2017)
- “Dreaming My Dreams with You” – Forget About It (1999)
- “Drowning in the Blues” – Best Things in Life (2012), with Dave Stewart
- “Dust Bowl Children” – Paper Airplane (2011)
- “Dusty Miller” – Too Late to Cry (1987)
- “Dusty Miller (1986 Fiddle Recording)” – Different Strokes (1986), with Jim Hoiles and Swamp Weiss
- “Empty Hearts” – Forget About It (1999)
- “Endless Highway” – I’ve Got That Old Feeling (1990)
- “Ever Mine” – The Way I Am (2026), with Luke Combs
- “Every Time You Say Goodbye” – Every Time You Say Goodbye (1992)
- “Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven” – I Know Who Holds Tomorrow (1994), with the Cox Family
F–J
- “Far Side Bank of Jordan” – I Know Who Holds Tomorrow (1994), with the Cox Family
- “Faraway Land” – Live (2002)
- “Find My Way Back to My Heart” – So Long So Wrong (1997)
- “Fire & Brimstone” – Fire & Brimstone (2019), with Brantley Gilbert and Jamey Johnson
- “Foolish Heart” – Too Late to Cry (1987)
- “Forever” – Arcadia (2025)
- “Forget About It” – Forget About It (1999)
- “Forgotten Pictures” – Too Late to Cry (1987)
- “Fortune Teller” – Raising Sand (2007), with Robert Plant
- “Frozen Fields” – Paper Airplane (Target deluxe edition) (2011)
- “Gentle on My Mind” – Windy City (2017)
- “Gentle River” – Too Late to Cry (1987)
- “Get Me Through December” – In My Hands (1999), with Natalie MacMaster
- “Ghost in This House” – Forget About It (1999)
- “Go Your Way” – Raise the Roof (2021), with Robert Plant
- “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen” – Musical Gifts from Joshua Bell and Friends (2013), with Joshua Bell
- “Going Where the Lonely Go” – Raise the Roof (2021), with Robert Plant
- “Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On)” – Raising Sand (2007), with Robert Plant
- “Goodbye Is All We Have” – Lonely Runs Both Ways (2004)
- “Granite Mills” – Arcadia (2025)
- “Gravity” – Lonely Runs Both Ways (2004)
- “Grey Eagle” – Different Strokes (1986), with Jim Hoiles and Swamp Weiss
- “Happiness” – So Long So Wrong (1997)
- “Hard Candy Christmas” – Cyndi Lauper – Hard Candy Christmas (single) (2015), with Cyndi Lauper
- “Heartstrings” – Every Time You Say Goodbye (1992)
- “Heaven’s Bright Shore” – Two Highways (1989)
- “Here Comes Goodbye” – Two Highways (1989)
- “High and Lonesome” – Raise the Roof (2021), with Robert Plant
- “How I Want to Be” – Everything to Lose (2017), with Sundance Head
- “How’s the World Treating You” – Livin’, Lovin’, Losin’: Songs of the Louvin Brothers (2003), with James Taylor
- “I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow” – Live (2002)
- “I Can Let Go Now” – So Long So Wrong (1997)
- “I’d Rather Have Jesus” – I Know Who Holds Tomorrow (1994), with the Cox Family
- “I Don’t Believe You’ve Met My Baby” – Now That I’ve Found You: A Collection (1995), with Jerry Douglas
- “I Don’t Have to Live This Way” – Lonely Runs Both Ways (2004)
- “I Don’t Know Why” – Every Time You Say Goodbye (1992)
- “I Give You to His Heart” – The Prince of Egypt: Nashville (soundtrack) (1998)
- “I Just Come Here for the Music” – And So It Goes (2012), with Don Williams
- “I Know Who Holds Tomorrow” – I Know Who Holds Tomorrow (1994), with the Cox Family
- “I’ll Fly Away” – O Brother, Where Art Thou? (soundtrack) (2000), with Gillian Welch
- “I’ll Remember You, Love, in My Prayers” – So Long So Wrong (1997)
- “I’m Alone Again” – Two Highways (1989)
- “I’m Gone” – New Favorite (2001)
- “I Never Cared for You” – Windy City (2017)
- “I Never Cared for You (Live at the Franklin Theatre)” – Windy City (Deluxe Edition) (2017)
- “I’ve Got That Old Feeling” – I’ve Got That Old Feeling (1990)
- “I Will” – Now That I’ve Found You: A Collection (1995), with Tony Furtado
- “If I Didn’t Know Any Better” – Lonely Runs Both Ways (2004)
- “If I Give You My Heart” – Too Late to Cry (1987)
- “In the Palm of Your Hand” – I Know Who Holds Tomorrow (1994), with the Cox Family
- “In Your Eyes” – Too Late to Cry (1987)
- “It All Comes Down to You” – New Favorite (2001)
- “It Doesn’t Matter” – So Long So Wrong (1997)
- “It Don’t Bother Me” – Raise the Roof (2021), with Robert Plant
- “It Don’t Matter Now” – Forget About It (1999)
- “It’s Goodbye and So Long to You” – Windy City (2017)
- “It’s Not Over” – Thank God for Believers (1997), with Mark Chesnutt and Vince Gill
- “It’s Over” – I’ve Got That Old Feeling (1990)
- “It Won’t Work This Time” – Every Time You Say Goodbye (1992)
- “It Wouldn’t Have Made Any Difference” – Forget About It (1999)
- “Jacob’s Dream” – A Hundred Miles or More: A Collection (2007)
- “Jesus Help Me to Stand” – Every Time You Say Goodbye (1992)
- “Jewels” – I Know Who Holds Tomorrow (1994), with the Cox Family
- “Jubilee” – Paper Clips (soundtrack) (2006)
- “Just When I Needed You Most” – Treasures (1996), with Dolly Parton
K–O
- “Killing the Blues” – Raising Sand (2007), with Robert Plant
- “Last Kind Words Blues” – Raise the Roof (2021), with Robert Plant
- “Last Love Letter” – Every Time You Say Goodbye (1992)
- “Lay Down Beside Me” – A Hundred Miles or More: A Collection (2007)
- “Lay My Burden Down” – Paper Airplane (2011)
- “Let Me Touch You for Awhile” – New Favorite (2001)
- “Let Your Loss Be Your Lesson” – Raising Sand (2007), with Robert Plant
- “Lie Awake” – Paper Airplane (2011)
- “Lifeless” – Diamond Star Halos (2022), with Def Leppard
- “Little Liza Jane” – So Long So Wrong (1997)
- “Long Ago” – Eight Crazy Nights (soundtrack) (2002), with Adam Sandler and cast
- “Longest Highway” – I’ve Got That Old Feeling (1990)
- “Looking in the Eyes of Love” – So Long So Wrong (1997)
- “Looks Like the End of the Road” – Arcadia (2025)
- “Lord Don’t Forsake Me” – Two Highways (1989)
- “Lose Again” – Every Time You Say Goodbye (1992)
- “Losing You” – Windy City (2017)
- “Losing You (Live at the Franklin Theatre)” – Windy City (Deluxe Edition) (2017)
- “Love Don’t Live Here Anymore” – She Rides Wild Horses (1999), with Kenny Rogers
- “Love Heals” – Love Heals (single) (2018), with Levi Hummon
- “Love You in Vain” – Two Highways (1989)
- “Loves Me Like a Rock” – I Know Who Holds Tomorrow (1994), with the Cox Family
- “Make the World Go Away” – Living for a Song: A Tribute to Hank Cochran (2012), with Jamey Johnson
- “Maybe” – Forget About It (1999)
- “Midnight Rider” – Two Highways (1989)
- “Miles to Go” – Paper Airplane (2011)
- “Missing You” – Downtown: Journey of a Heart (2007), with John Waite
- “Molly Bán (Bawn)” – A Hundred Miles or More: A Collection (2007)
- “Moments Like This” – Twister (soundtrack) (1996)
- “Momma Cried” – New Favorite (2001)
- “My Love Follows You Where You Go” – Paper Airplane (2011)
- “My Opening Farewell” – Paper Airplane (2011)
- “My Poor Old Heart” – Lonely Runs Both Ways (2004)
- “Never Got Off the Ground” – Forget About It (1999)
- “Never Will Give Up” – I Know Who Holds Tomorrow (1994), with the Cox Family
- “New Favorite” – New Favorite (2001)
- “New Fool” – Every Time You Say Goodbye (1992)
- “Nick’s Noodle” – Different Strokes (1986), with Jim Hoiles and Swamp Weiss
- “No Más Amor” – To All the Girls… (2013), with Willie Nelson
- “No Place to Hide” – So Long So Wrong (1997)
- “North Side Gal” – Arcadia (2025)
- “Nothin’” – Raising Sand (2007), with Robert Plant
- “Oh, Atlanta” – Now That I’ve Found You: A Collection (1995)
- “On the Borderline” – Too Late to Cry (1987)
- “On the Outside Looking In” – Paper Airplane (2011)
- “One Good Reason” – I’ve Got That Old Feeling (1990)
- “One Ray of Shine” – Arcadia (2025)
- “Our Kind of Love” – Nothin’ but the Taillights (1997), with Clint Black and Union Station
P–T
- “Pain of a Troubled Life” – So Long So Wrong (1997)
- “Paper Airplane” – Paper Airplane (2011)
- “Part of Heaven” – This Gift (1997), with Gary Chapman
- “Pastures of Plenty” – Lonely Runs Both Ways (2004)
- “Please Read the Letter” – Raising Sand (2007), with Robert Plant
- “Poison Love” – Windy City (2017)
- “Polly Come Home” – Raising Sand (2007), with Robert Plant
- “Quattro (World Drifts In)” – Raise the Roof (2021), with Robert Plant
- “Rain Please Go Away” – Lonely Runs Both Ways (2004)
- “Red (2013 CMA Awards Performance)” – Red (2013 CMA Awards Performance) (single) (2013), with Taylor Swift, Vince Gill, Sam Bush and Edgar Meyer
- “Remind Me, Dear Lord” – I Know Who Holds Tomorrow (1994), with the Cox Family
- “Restless” – Lonely Runs Both Ways (2004)
- “Rich Woman” – Raising Sand (2007), with Robert Plant
- “Richmond on the James” – Arcadia (2025)
- “River in the Rain” – Windy City (2017)
- “River in the Rain (Live at the Franklin Theatre)” – Windy City (Deluxe Edition) (2017)
- “Sally Goodin’” – Different Strokes (1986), with Jim Hoiles and Swamp Weiss
- “Same Old Train” – Tribute to Tradition (1998), with various country artists
- “Sawing on the Strings” – A Hundred Miles or More: A Collection (2007)
- “Searching for My Love” – Raise the Roof (2021), with Robert Plant
- “Shield of Faith” – Every Time You Say Goodbye (1992)
- “Simple Love” – A Hundred Miles or More: A Collection (2007)
- “Sinking Stone” – Paper Airplane (2011)
- “Sister Rosetta Goes Before Us” – Raising Sand (2007), with Robert Plant
- “Sitting in the Window of My Room” – Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (soundtrack) (2002)
- “Sleep On” – Too Late to Cry (1987)
- “Smile” – Roots and Wings (2011), with Terri Clark
- “Snow” – Arcadia (2025)
- “So Long, So Wrong” – So Long So Wrong (1997)
- “Some Children See Him” – Christmas Duets: 50 Holiday Classics (2015), with Kenny Rogers
- “Somebody Was Watching Over Me” – Raise the Roof (2021), with Robert Plant
- “Somewhere in the Vicinity of the Heart” – In the Vicinity of the Heart (1994), with Shenandoah
- “Song for Life” – Too Late to Cry (1987)
- “Stars” – New Favorite (2001)
- “Stay” – Forget About It (1999)
- “Steel Rails” – I’ve Got That Old Feeling (1990)
- “Stick with Me Baby” – Raising Sand (2007), with Robert Plant
- “Take Me for Longing” – New Favorite (2001)
- “Teach Your Children” – Red Hot + Country (1994), with Suzy Bogguss, Kathy Mattea and Crosby, Stills & Nash
- “Teardrops Will Kiss the Morning Dew” – Two Highways (1989)
- “Thankful” – Look Up (2025), with Ringo Starr
- “That Kind of Love” – Forget About It (1999)
- “That Makes One of Us” – I’ve Got That Old Feeling (1990)
- “The Angels Cried” – Honky Tonk Christmas (1993), with Alan Jackson
- “The Boy Who Wouldn’t Hoe Corn” – New Favorite (2001)
- “The Captain’s Daughter” – Johnny Cash: Forever Words (2018), with Union Station
- “The Hangman” – Arcadia (2025)
- “The Last Word in Lonesome Is Me” – The Last Word in Lonesome Is Me (single) (2018)
- “The Light of Christmas Day” – Love the Coopers (soundtrack) (2015), with Robert Plant
- “The Little Girl” – The Little Girl (single) (2000), with John Michael Montgomery and Dan Tyminski
- “The Lucky One” – New Favorite (2001)
- “The Price of Love” – Raise the Roof (2021), with Robert Plant
- “The Reason Why” – These Days (2006), with Vince Gill
- “The Road Is a Lover” – So Long So Wrong (1997)
- “The Scarlet Tide” – Cold Mountain (soundtrack) (2003)
- “The Three Bells” – Tribute to Tradition (1998)
- “The Wrong Way” – Arcadia (2025)
- “There Is a Reason” – So Long So Wrong (1997)
- “There Is Life” – Bambi II (soundtrack) (2006)
- “There’s a Light Up Ahead” – Arcadia (2025)
- “These Days” – Paper Airplane (iTunes bonus track) (2011)
- “This Guitar” – Diamond Star Halos (2022), with Def Leppard
- “This Sad Song” – Lonely Runs Both Ways (2004)
- “This Time the Dream’s on Me” – Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (soundtrack) (1997)
- “Through the Morning, Through the Night” – Raising Sand (2007), with Robert Plant
- “Till I Gain Control Again” – Windy City (Deluxe Edition) (2017)
- “Tiny Broken Heart” – Live (2002)
- “Tonight I’ll Be Lonely Too” – I’ve Got That Old Feeling (1990)
- “Too Late to Cry” – Too Late to Cry (1987)
- “Too Much Heaven” – Greenfields: The Gibb Brothers Songbook, Vol. 1 (2021), with Barry Gibb
- “Trampled Rose” – Raising Sand (2007), with Robert Plant
- “Trouble with My Lover” – Raise the Roof (2021), with Robert Plant
- “Two Highways” – Two Highways (1989)
U–Z
- “Unionhouse Branch” – Lonely Runs Both Ways (2004)
- “Walk Over God’s Heaven” – I Know Who Holds Tomorrow (1994), with the Cox Family
- “We Hide & Seek” – Live (2002)
- “What’ll I Do” – Mona Lisa Smile (soundtrack) (2003)
- “When God Dips His Pen of Love in My Heart” – Now That I’ve Found You: A Collection (1995), with the Cox Family
- “When the Levee Breaks” – When the Levee Breaks (single) (2024), with Robert Plant
- “When You Say Nothing at All” – Keith Whitley: A Tribute Album (1994)
- “When You Say Nothing at All (2020 Duet)” – Twenty Twenty (2020), with Ronan Keating
- “Whenever I Call You Friend” – Then and Now (1997), with Michael Johnson
- “Where No One Stands Alone” – I Know Who Holds Tomorrow (1994), with the Cox Family
- “Whiskey Lullaby” – Mud on the Tires (2003), with Brad Paisley
- “Who Can Blame You” – Every Time You Say Goodbye (1992)
- “Wild Bill Jones” – Two Highways (1989)
- “Will There Be Any Stars?” – I Know Who Holds Tomorrow (1994), with the Cox Family
- “Will You Be Leaving” – I’ve Got That Old Feeling (1990)
- “Windy City” – Windy City (2017)
- “Windy City (Live at the Franklin Theatre)” – Windy City (Deluxe Edition) (2017)
- “Windy City Rag” – Two Highways (1989)
- “Winter of a Broken Heart” – I’ve Got That Old Feeling (1990)
- “Wish I Still Had You” – I’ve Got That Old Feeling (1990)
- “Wouldn’t Be So Bad” – Lonely Runs Both Ways (2004)
- “You Don’t Know Me” – Windy City (2017)
- “You Led Me to the Wrong” – Raise the Roof (2021), with Robert Plant
- “You’re Just a Country Boy” – A Hundred Miles or More: A Collection (2007)
- “You Will Be My Ain True Love” – Cold Mountain (soundtrack) (2003), with Sting
- “Your Long Journey” – Raising Sand (2007), with Robert Plant
ALISON KRAUSS STUDIO ALBUMS
Too Late to Cry (1987)
Two Highways (1989)
I’ve Got That Old Feeling (1990)
Every Time You Say Goodbye (1992)
So Long So Wrong (1997)
Forget About It (1999)
New Favorite (2001)
Lonely Runs Both Ways (2004)
Paper Airplane (2011)
Windy City (2017)
Arcadia (2025)
ALISON KRAUSS OFFICIAL LIVE ALBUMS
Live (2002)
ALISON KRAUSS OFFICIAL COMPILATION ALBUMS
Now That I’ve Found You: A Collection (1995)
A Hundred Miles or More: A Collection (2007)
Essential Alison Krauss (2009)
ALISON KRAUSS COLLABORATIVE STUDIO ALBUMS
Different Strokes (1986) – with Jim Hoiles and Swamp Weiss
I Know Who Holds Tomorrow (1994) – with the Cox Family
Raising Sand (2007) – with Robert Plant
Raise the Roof (2021) – with Robert Plant
Updated November 9, 2026
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