KRAUSS, ALISON
(*1971)
KRAUSS, ALISON (b. Decatur, Ill., July 23, 1971) Krauss was a whiz-kid fiddler who as a teenager formed her own band, Union Station, a BLUEGRASS-country unit that has brought a traditional style to the mainstream charts. Krauss is another in a line of annoying (to those of us who are musically butterfingered) prodigies who begin playing when they are still riding tricycles, and start racking up prizes when most of us are struggling with acne. She won her first FIDDLE contest at age ten in the…