Barry Turner Bales [1] (born August 23, 1969 in Kingsport, Tennessee) is the bass player and harmony vocalist for Alison Krauss and Union Station.

Barry grew up in Colonial Heights, Tennessee outside of Kingsport, Tennessee and attended Sullivan South High School (Tennessee). Early memories of music include listening to the records of Bill Monroe, Flatt & Scruggs, the Stanley Brothers, Bob Wills, Buck Owens and Hank Thompson from his father's extensive collection. He started experimenting with various instruments at the age of 10, starting with guitar. By age 15, Barry had found the bass and was playing regionally in various groups. Bales attended East Tennessee State University, participating in the Bluegrass, Old Time, and Country Music program, as did future Union Station members Tim Stafford and Adam Steffey. [2] It was while performing with many of these musicians that he began traveling in ever-wider musical circles, eventually landing the bass job with Union Station in 1990.

Over the years, Barry has become one of the most in-demand session players in acoustic music. He has recorded and performed with such artists as Reba McEntire, Susan Ashton, Merle Haggard, Ronnie Bowman, the Cox family, Vince Gill, Dolly Parton, Dan Tyminski, Patty Loveless and many others.

Barry currently resides in Kingsport with his wife Aliceson (née Osborn) and their young son.

Alison Krauss
Alison Krauss at MerleFest, 2007
Background information
Born	(1971-07-23) July 23, 1971 (age 40) Decatur, Illinois, US
Occupations	Musician, Songwriter, Producer, Bandleader
Instruments	Vocals, Fiddle, Viola
Years active	1984–present
Labels	Rounder
Associated acts	Dan Tyminski, Robert Plant, John Waite, Rhonda Vincent, Dolly Parton, Brad Paisley, Ricky Skaggs, Vince Gill, Jerry Douglas
Website	AlisonKrauss.com

Alison Maria Krauss (born July 23, 1971) is an American bluegrass-country singer, songwriter and fiddler. She entered the music industry at an early age, winning local contests by the age of ten and recording for the first time at fourteen. 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 (AKUS), and later released her first album with them as a group in 1989.

She has released fourteen albums, appeared on numerous soundtracks, and helped renew interest in bluegrass music in the United States. Her soundtrack performances have led to further popularity, including the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack, an album also credited with raising American interest in bluegrass, and the Cold Mountain soundtrack, which led to her performance at the 2004 Academy Awards. As of 2012, she has won 27 Grammy Awards from 41 nominations, making her the most awarded living recipient, and three back of the most honoured artist, classical conductor Sir Georg Solti.^[1] She is also the most awarded singer and the most awarded female artist in Grammy history.^[2] At the time of her first award, at the 1991 Grammy Awards, she was the second youngest winner ever (currently tied as third youngest).

Biography[link]

Alison Maria Krauss^[3] was born in Decatur, Illinois. Her parents are originally from Columbus, Mississippi. Krauss was raised in Champaign, Illinois. She began studying classical violin at age five but soon switched to bluegrass. Krauss said she first became involved with music because "[my] mother tried to find interesting things for me to do" and "wanted to get me involved in music, in addition to art and sports^[4] At the age eight she started entering local talent contests, and at ten she had her own band. At 13 she won the Walnut Valley Festival Fiddle Championship,^[5] and the Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass in America named her the "Most Promising Fiddler in the Midwest".^{[citation needed]} 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.^[6]

1985–1991: Early career[link]

Krauss made her recording debut in 1985 on the independent album, Different Strokes, featuring her brother Viktor, 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 their previous fiddler Andrea Zonn.^[7] Pennell later changed the band's name to Union Station after another band was discovered with the name Silver Rail.^[8] Pennell remains one of her favorite songwriters^[9] and wrote some of her early work including the popular "Every Time You Say Goodbye".

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.^[10]

Krauss' debut solo album was followed shortly by her first group album with Union Station in 1989 Two Highways.^[11] The album includes the traditional tunes, Wild Bill Jones and Beaumont Rag, along with a bluegrass interpretation of The Allman Brothers' "Midnight Rider". Alison Krauss and Union Station would later perform at the 1989 Newport Folk Festival.^{[citation needed]}

Krauss' contract with Rounder required her to alternate between releasing a solo album and an album with Union Station, 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.

1992–1999: Rising success[link]

Krauss' second Union Station album Everytime You Say Goodbye was released in 1992, and she went on to win her second Grammy for Best Bluegrass Album of the year. She then joined the Grand Ole Opry in 1993 at the age of 21.^[11] She was the youngest cast member at the time, and the first bluegrass artist to join the Opry in twenty-nine years.^{[citation needed]} 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. 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."^[12] A cover of Keith Whitley's "When You Say Nothing at All" reached the top five on the Billboard country chart;^{[citation needed]} 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.^{[citation needed]} Krauss also was nominated for four Country Music Association Awards and won all of them.^{[citation needed]}

So Long So Wrong, another Union Station album, was released in 1997 and won the Grammy for Best Bluegrass Album. One critic said its sound was "rather untraditional" and "likely [to] change quite a few . . . minds about bluegrass."^[13] 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^[14] 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".^{[citation needed]} 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.^{[citation needed]} In addition, the track "That Kind of Love" was included in another episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.^[15]

2000–present: Current career[link]

Adam Steffey left Union Station in 1998, and was replaced with renowned Dobro player Jerry Douglas.^[16] Douglas had provided studio back-up to Krauss's 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.^{[citation needed]} 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.^[4] 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.^{[citation needed]}

Krauss recorded a collaborative album, Raising Sand with Robert Plant in 2007 which would ultimately be RIAA certified platinum. Raising Sand was nominated for and won 5 Grammys at the 51st 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. The pair are currently working on a new album.^[17] Alison Krauss has announced a new album release called Paper Airplane with Union Station on April 12, 2011, the follow-up album to "Lonely Runs Both Ways" (2004)

Personal life[link]

Alison Krauss was married to Pat Bergeson from 1997-2001. Together they had a son in 1999.

Other work[link]

Alison Krauss on stage with Robert Plant at Birmingham's NIA, 5th May 2008

Krauss has made multiple guest appearances on other records with lead vocals, harmony vocals, or fiddle playing. In 1993 she recorded vocals for the Phish song "If I Could" in Los Angeles.^[18] In 1997 she contributed harmony vocals in both English and Irish to Irish traditional band Altan's Runaway Sunday album. She has contributed to numerous motion picture soundtracks, most notably the soundtrack O Brother, Where Art Thou? in 2000. She and co-vocalist Dan Tyminski contributed multiple tracks to the soundtrack, including "I'll Fly Away" (with Gillian Welch), "Down to the River to Pray", and "I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow".^{[citation needed]} She also makes a guest appearance on Heart's March 2010 concert DVD "Night At Sky Church", providing the lead vocals for the song "These Dreams".^[19]

In the film, Tyminski's vocals on "I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow" were used for George Clooney's character.^[20] The soundtrack sold over seven million copies and won the Grammy for Album of the Year in 2002.^{[citation needed]} The unexpected success of the album has been partially credited, as was Krauss herself,^[21] with bringing a new interest in bluegrass to the United States. She has said, however, that she believes Americans already liked bluegrass and other less-heard musical genres, and that the film merely provided easy exposure to the music.^[22] She did not appear in the movie, at her own request, as she was nine months pregnant during its filming.^[23]

In 2007, Krauss released the anthology A Hundred Miles Or More: A Collection which was a collection of soundtrack work, duets with artists such as John Waite, James Taylor, Brad Paisley and esteemed fiddle player Natalie MacMaster, and newer tracks.^{[citation needed]} The album was very commercially successful, but was received with a lukewarm reception from critics.^{[citation needed]} One of the tracks, "Missing You", a duet with Waite (and a cover of his hit single from 1984), was similarly received as a single.^{[citation needed]} On August 11, television network Great American Country aired a one-hour special, "Alison Krauss: A Hundred Miles or More" based on the album and featured many of the album's duets and solo performances.^{[citation needed]}

Other soundtracks for which Krauss has performed include Twister, The Prince of Egypt, Eight Crazy Nights, Mona Lisa Smile, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Alias, Bambi II and Cold Mountain. She also contributed the song "Jubilee" to the 2004 documentary Paper Clips. The Cold Mountain songs "The Scarlet Tide" by T-Bone Burnett and Elvis Costello, and "You Will Be My Ain True Love", by her and Sting were nominated for an Academy Award, and she performed both songs at the 76th Academy Awards, the first with Costello and Burnett and the other with Sting.^[24] She also worked as a producer for Nickel Creek on their debut self-titled album in 2000 and the follow-up This Side in 2002, which won Krauss her first Grammy as a music producer.^{[citation needed]}

Reception and influences[link]

Krauss's earliest musical experience was as an instrumentalist, though her style has grown to focus more on her vocals^[11] with a band providing most of the instrumentation. Musicians she enjoys include Lou Gramm of Foreigner and Paul Rodgers of Bad Company.^[25][26][27] Krauss' family listened to "folk records" while she was growing up, but she had friends who exposed her to groups such as AC/DC, Carly Simon, The Rolling Stones, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and ELO.^[28] She cites Dolly Parton, with whom she has since collaborated a number of times, as a major influence. Some credit Krauss and Union Station, at least partially, with a recent revival of interest in bluegrass music in the United States.^[21] Despite being together for nearly two decades and winning numerous awards, she said the group was "just beginning right now" (in 2002) because "in spite of all the great things that have happened for the band, [she] feel[s] musically it's just really beginning."^[22] Although she alternates between solo releases and works with the band, she has said there is no difference in her involvement between the two.^[23]

As a group, AKUS have been called "American favourites," "world-beaters,"^[29] and "the tightest band around."^[30] While they have been successful as a group, many reviews note Krauss still "remains the undisputed star and rock-solid foundation" and have described her as the "band's focus"^[31] with an "angelic"^[30] voice that "flows like honey".^[31] Her work has been compared to that of The Cox Family, Bill Monroe, and Del McCoury,^{[citation needed]} and has in turn been credited with influencing various "Newgrass" artists including Nickel Creek, for which she acted as record producer on two of their albums.^[32] In addition to her work with Nickel Creek, she has acted as producer to the Cox Family, Reba McEntire and Alan Jackson.^[33] Adam Sweeting of The Guardian has said Krauss and Union Station are "superb when they stick to hoedowns and hillbilly music, but much less convincing when they lurch towards the middle of the road,"^[34] and Blender magazine has said the "flavorless repertoire [Krauss] sings... steers her toward Lite FM".^[35] In addition, Q magazine and The Onion AV Club have said their newer releases are "pretty much the usual," and that although Krauss is generally "adventurous," these recent releases contain nothing to "alienate the masses".^[36]

Voice, themes, and musical style[link]

Krauss possesses a soprano^[37] voice which has been described as "angelic".^[30] She has said her musical influences include J. D. Crowe, Ricky Skaggs, and Tony Rice.^[38] Many of her songs are described as sad,^[39] and are often about love, especially lost love. Though she has a close involvement with her group and a long career in music, she rarely performs music she has written herself. She has also described her general approach to constructing an album as starting with a single song and selecting other tracks based on the first, to give the final album a somewhat consistent theme and mood.^[23][40] She most commonly performs in the bluegrass and country genres, though she has had two songs on the adult contemporary charts, has worked with rock artists such as Phish^[11] and Sting,^[24] and is sometimes said to stray into pop music.^[7][41]

Music videos[link]

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File:AKUS Goodbye is All We Have.jpg

The video for "Goodbye is All We Have" shows the group traveling, meeting at a crossroads, playing the song, and walking away together.  Audio sample (help·info)

Krauss did not think she would make music videos at the beginning of her career, and after recording her first she was convinced it was so bad that she would never do another. Nonetheless, she has gone on to make further videos. Many of the first videos she saw were by bluegrass artists, although Dan Tyminski has noted that the video for Thriller was very popular at the time she was first exposed to music videos. She has made suggestions on the style or theme to some videos, though she tends to leave such decisions up to the director of the particular video. The group chooses directors by seeking out people who have previously directed videos bandmembers have enjoyed. The director for a video to "If I Didn't Know Any Better" from Lonely Runs Both Ways, for example, was selected because Krauss enjoyed work he had done with Def Leppard, and she wondered what he could do with their music. While style decisions are generally left to the various directors of the videos, many —including for "The Lucky One", "Restless", "Goodbye is All We Have", "New Favorite", and "If I Didn't Know Any Better"—follow a pattern. In all of these videos Krauss walks, sometimes interacting with other people, while the rest of the band follows her.^[6][42]

Performances[link]

Krauss has said she used to dislike working in the studio where she had to play the same song repeatedly, but has come to like studio work roughly the same as live stage performances. Her own favorite concert experiences include watching three Foreigner concerts during a single tour, a Dolly Parton concert, and a Larry Sparks concert.^[43] She appeared on Austin City Limits in 1992 and opened the show in 1995 with Union Station.^[44] The New Favorite tour, after AKUS' album of the same name, was planned to start September 12, 2001 in Cincinnati, Ohio, but was delayed until September 28 in Savannah, Georgia following the September 11 terrorist attacks^[45] Krauss also took part in the Down from the Mountain tour in 2002, which featured many artists from the O Brother, Where Art Thou.^[46][47] Down from the Mountain was followed by the Great High Mountain Tour, which was composed of musicians from both O Brother and Cold Mountain, including Krauss.^[42] She has also given several notable smaller performances including at Carnegie Hall (with the Grand Ole Opry),^[48] on Lifetime Television in a concert of female performers, on the radio show A Prairie Home Companion^[49] where she sang two songs not previously recorded on any of her albums, and a performance at the White House attended by then-President Bill Clinton and then-Vice President Al Gore.^[50]

Awards[link]

Alison Krauss has won a record twenty-seven Grammy Awards^[51] over the course of her career as a solo artist, as a group with Union Station, as a duet with Robert Plant, and as a record producer. She's currently tied with Quincy Jones as the second most winner of Grammy Awards. Only the late classical conductor Sir Georg Solti has more overall Grammys (31).^[52] She overtook Aretha Franklin for the most female wins at the 46th Grammy Awards where Krauss won three, bringing her total at the time to seventeen (Franklin won her sixteenth that night).^[53] The Recording Academy (which presents the Grammy Awards) presented her with a special musical achievement honor in 2005.^[54] She has also won 14 International Bluegrass Music Association Awards,^[55] 8 Country Music Association Awards,^[56][57] 2 Gospel Music Association Awards,^{[citation needed]} 2 CMT Music Awards,^[58][59][60] 2 Academy of Country Music Awards,^[61] and 1 Canadian Country Music Award.^[62] Country Music Television ranked Krauss 12th on their "40 Greatest Women of Country Music" list in 2002.^[63]

At the 76th Academy Awards in February 2004, where she performed two nominated songs from the Cold Mountain soundtrack, Alison Krauss was chosen by Hollywood shoe designer Stuart Weitzman to wear a pair of $2 million 'Cinderella' sandals with 4½ inch clear glass stiletto heels and two straps adorned with 565 Kwiat diamonds set in platinum. Feeling like a rather unglamorous choice, Krauss said, "When I first heard, I was like, 'What were they thinking?' I have the worst feet of anybody who will be there that night!" In addition to the fairy-tale-inspired shoes, Weitzman outfitted Krauss with a Palm Trēo 600 smartphone, bejeweled with 3,000 clear-and-topaz-colored Swarovski crystals. The shoes were returned, but Krauss kept the crystal-covered phone. Weitzman chose Krauss to show off his fashions at the urging of his daughters, who are fans of Krauss' music.^[64][65]

Discography[link]

• 1985: Different Strokes
• 1987: Too Late to Cry
• 1989: Two Highways
• 1990: I've Got That Old Feeling
• 1992: Every Time You Say Goodbye
• 1994: I Know Who Holds Tomorrow
• 1995: Now That I've Found You: A Collection
• 1997: So Long So Wrong
• 1999: Forget About It
• 2001: New Favorite
• 2002 "Live"
• 2004: Lonely Runs Both Ways
• 2007: A Hundred Miles or More: A Collection
• 2007: Raising Sand
• 2011: Paper Airplane

Filmography[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

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• Official site
• Rounder Records site for Alison Krauss
• Alison Krauss on Allmusic database
• Alison Krauss at the Internet Movie Database

Shawn Lane
Background information
Born	(1963-03-21)March 21, 1963 Memphis, Tennessee, United States
Died	September 26, 2003(2003-09-26) (aged 40) Memphis, Tennessee, United States
Genres	Instrumental rock, jazz fusion, world fusion
Occupations	Musician, composer, producer
Instruments	Guitar, piano, keyboard
Years active	1977–2003
Labels	Warner Bros.
Associated acts	Jonas Hellborg/Jeff Sipe, Black Oak Arkansas, Savage Innocence, D.D.T., The Willys
Website	shawnlane.com
Notable instruments
Vigier Excalibur

Shawn Lane (March 21, 1963 – September 26, 2003) was an American musician who released two studio-albums and collaborated with musicians, such as Ringo Starr and Jonas Hellborg. After studying the piano, he rapidly mastered the guitar, which he played with exceptional speed. The magazine Guitar World wrote, "Few, if any, guitarists can play faster than Lane could, and his arpeggio sweeps and precision-picked lines blasted more rapid-fire notes than the average human mind could comprehend."^[1]

Youth[link]

Born in Memphis, Tennessee, Lane began playing piano with his sisters at the age of eight, but did not play guitar seriously until he was ten. At age thirteen he began to practice heavily. At fourteen, he became the lead guitarist for Black Oak Arkansas (BOA), which over the next four years opened shows for REO Speedwagon, Ted Nugent, the Outlaws, Cheap Trick, and Blue Öyster Cult. BOA playing at Bill Clinton's inaugural as Governor of Arkansas.

At age fifteen Lane saw Allan Holdsworth play guitar with the progressive band U.K., which inspired him to develop his own style of playing guitar.^[2] Lane also played in Savage Innocence with singer Jim "Dandy" Mangrum, guitarist Keith Plunk, keyboardist Billy Batte, drummer Chris Craig and bassist Kinley Wolfe. As the original members dropped out, Lane replaced them with players from his high school days. Lane began to play a style close to jazz fusion. During the 1980s and early 1990s, Lane played in The Willys, a band consisting of singer/bassist Rob Caudill, keyboardist Sam Bryant and drummer Russ Caudill.

Adulthood and piano[link]

From age eighteen to twenty six, Lane studied music, composed music, and played piano.^{[citation needed]} Much of the material on Lane's first studio album, Powers of Ten, was written on his home piano.^[2][3] He quickly developed his technique on the keyboard as well, taking influence from pianists such as Franz Liszt, Art Tatum and Georges Cziffra.^[4]

His demo tapes won him a recording contract with Warner Bros. Records. Except for one cover song, Lane wrote all the material and played all the instruments on his debut album. The album sold well and earned several magazine awards.^[5] Following its release in 1992, Guitar Player magazine named him "Best New Talent" and Keyboard Magazine placed him second in the "Best Keyboard Player" category. During the production of the album Lane continued to play live shows and do session work. He also performed on the Mark Varney Project's Centrifugal Funk album along with Brett Garsed and Frank Gambale. To promote the album, he formed The Powers of Ten band with Barry Bays on bass, keyboardist Doug Scarborough, Todd Bobo on saxophone and drummer Sean Rickman; they opened for Robben Ford's US tour.^{[citation needed]}

Lane released two more solo albums following his debut, Powers of Ten; Live!, recorded live in 1993, and The Tri-Tone Fascination in 1999.

Collaborations[link]

When Lane met bassist Jonas Hellborg in 1994. Lane and Hellborg played with drummer Jeff Sipe in HLS (Hellborg, Lane, Sipe). Between 1994–1995, Lane played with D.D.T., a band consisting of Paul Taylor, Luther Dickinson and Cody Dickinson; the latter three would then form the North Mississippi Allstars. In September 1995, Hellborg, Lane and drummer Anders Johansson played with Chinese pop singer Wei Wei and the trio appeared as an opening act at many of China's largest musical venues.^{[citation needed]} Lane played the Warsaw Summer Jazz Days festival on 19 June 1998 with Hellborg and Felix Sabel-Lecco. Later, Lane and Hellborg formed an East-West fusion band with Indian musicians V. Selvaganesh and V. Umamahesh. While in Memphis, Lane would play with the Time Bandits, with singer Regina Parker, steel guitarist Tony Sutton, drummer Steve Sutton and bassist Adam Sutton. In February 2003, Lane and Hellborg toured India with drummer Andrea Marchesini. Shawn played the Swedish Jazz Celebration Festival, Stockholm, on 29th March 2003 with Hellborg, V. Umamahesh, V. Umashankar and Ramakrishnan. Lane's last concert performance was at Smilefest in North Carolina with Hellborg and Jim Britt on May 31 2003. In September 2003 Shawn Lane was preparing for a new album with Hellborg and Ginger Baker.^{[citation needed]}

Health and 2003 death[link]

Lane had psoriasis throughout his life. After age twelve, he also also suffered from psoriatic arthritis, which caused stiffness in his guitar playing only after 2000. His psoriasis was treated with hydrocortisone, which caused his weight to increase.^[2] In 2003, Lane was told that he would have to remain on medical oxygen the rest of his life.^[6]

Lane died in a hospital in Memphis on September 26, 2003 of lung-related illnesses.^[3][6] His body was buried at the Memorial Park Cemetery in Memphis.^[7]

Discography[link]

Solo albums[link]

• 1992: "West Side Boogie" (promotional single)^[8]
• 1992: Powers of Ten, Warner Bros
• 1999: The Tri-Tone Fascination, Eye Reckon Records
• 2001: Powers of Ten; Live!, Eye Reckon Records

Instructional

• Shawn Lane - Power Licks - REH837, 1993, (VHS)
• Shawn Lane - Power Solos - REH838, 1993, (VHS)
• Shawn Lane - Power Licks & Solos, 1995, Warner Brother Publications

With Jonas Hellborg[link]

• 1995: Abstract Logic, Bardo Records
• 1995: Two Doors, with Michael Shrieve, CMP Records
• 1996: Temporal Analogues of Paradise, Bardo Records
• 1997: Time Is the Enemy, Bardo Records
• 1999: Zenhouse, Bardo Records
• 2000: Good People in Times of Evil, Bardo Records
• 2002: Personae, Bardo Records
• 2003: Icon: A Transcontinental Gathering, Bardo Records
• 2004: Paris: DVD release of the 2001 concert at New Morning, Bardo Records

Other appearances[link]

• 1984: U.S. Metal Vol. IV - Unsung Guitar Heroes, Stratosphere II, Shrapnel Records
• 1989: Looking for shelter, Michael Bradley & Mark Lindsay
• 1990: Highwayman 2 - The Highwaymen (country supergroup), Columbia Nashville
• 1990: Son of the South - Toy Caldwell, Blue Hat Records
• 1991: Worrall - Rick & Steve Worrall with Jimi Jamison, A&M, re-release on Yesterrock Records
• 1991: Centrifugal Funk with Frank Gambale Brett Garsed, Legato Records
• 1991: When Love Comes Down, Jimi Jamison, Scotti Bros label
• 1992: Guitar on the edge, Vol 1, No.1, Legato Records
• 1992: Guitar on the edge, Vol 1, No.2 with David Ormonde Thomas, Legato Records
• 1992: On the way home, David Ormonde Thomas, Ethereal Thunder Productions
• 1993: A Little On The CD Side, Vol. 7, Musician Magazine, PRO MST 9107
• 1994: Guitar's Practicing Musicians Vol 111, Guitar Recordings
• 1995: Red Reign, Steven Patrick, Emerald Stare Records
• 1996: Guitar Zone, CMP Records
• 1996: Exploring the Frontiers of Rock, Jazz and World Music, CMP Records
• 1996: New Spirits in Jazz - part 2, EFA Records
• 1997: Fission, Jens Johansson, with Mike Stern, Heptagon Records
• 1997: Calvin Russell, Calvin Russell (musician), Last Call Records
• 1998: One road man, Chris LeDoux, Capitol Nashville Records
• 1999: Parker Card & The Sideman Syndicate, Parker Card, with Eric Gales, Orchard Records
• 2000: Mood Du Jour, Doug Scarborough, Hapi Skratch Records
• 2003: Polaris, North Mississippi Allstars, ATO Records
• 2004: Richard Hallebeek Project, with Brett Garsed, Liquid Note Records
• 2004: Shawn Lane Remembered Vol 1, Lion Music
• 2004: Shawn Lane Remembered Vol 2, Lion Music
• 2009: The World's Greatest Fusion Guitarists, Tone Centre
• 2010: 'Infinity' featured on the soundtrack to Daniele Luchetti "La Nostra Vita"

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website
• Steppin Out
• Article in All About Jazz by Souvik Dutta

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Ronald Franklin "Ron" Block (born July 30, 1964) is an American bluegrass and alternative country musician, mainly playing the banjo and the guitar, singing, and writing gospel music.

Biography[link]

Block was born in 1964 in Inglewood, California. He received his first guitar at 11. He first became interested in banjo at 13, after seeing Earl Scruggs play on television. His interest in guitars and singing grew after seeing The Stanley Brothers and Larry Sparks. He is best known for his participation in the Grammy Award winning band, Alison Krauss & Union Station.

For the past twenty years, Ron Block has been the spiritual touchstone of Alison Krauss and Union Station, contributing sterling musicianship on banjo, guitar, vocals, and songwriting.

Alison Krauss and Union Station have recorded 10 of Block’s songs since 1992, including There Is A Reason," "In The Palm of Your Hand," "Jesus Help Me To Stand," and "A Living Prayer, which received a 2006 Gospel Music Association Dove award. His songs have also been recorded and performed by Rhonda Vincent (“You’re In My Heart”), Randy Travis (“Which Way Will You Choose”), Dan Tyminski (“Be Assured,” “The One You Lean On,” and “It All Comes Down To You”), Michael W. Smith (“Loving You Eternally”), Rhonda Vincent (“You’re In My Heart”), the Cox Family, and the Forbes Family.

Block’s first solo album, Faraway Land (Rounder, 2001), met with great critical acclaim and raised the bar for Block as an artist for his Rounder Records follow-up, DoorWay. Boasting an all-star lineup featuring Alison Krauss, Dan Tyminski, Jerry Douglas, Barry Bales, Adam Steffey, Stuart Duncan, Viktor Krauss, Suzanne and Sidney Cox, Andy Hubbard (Little Big Town) and Homer, Lisa, and Lori Forbes, among others. Billboard Magazine/All Music Guide says, “Ron Block is best known to bluegrass lovers as the banjo player with Union Station, Alison Krauss’ backing band. But he’s also an excellent singer, songwriter, and guitarist, and on his second solo album he expands his stylistic parameters to very winning effect…” Barnes and Noble: “His Union Station mates Jerry Douglas and Dan Tyminski may be better known, but Ron Block levels the playing field with his second solo album, an assertive exploration of his Christian faith…”

Ron has also produced The Forbes Family’s In the Shadow of Your Wings," a classic of contemporary bluegrass gospel, and co-produced and played on Sierra Hull’s debut recording, Secrets.

Block has also recorded with Dolly Parton, Brad Paisley, Fernando Ortega, Andrew Peterson, Susan Ashton, Vince Gill, the Cox Family, Clint Black, Dan Tyminski, Bill Frisell, Josh Turner, Billy Dean, Michael Johnson, Ronnie Bowman, Dailey and Vincent, Bradley Walker, Twila Paris, McBride and the Ride, and many other country, bluegrass, and Christian artists, and received an Album of the Year Grammy Award for his work on the "O Brother, Where Art Thou soundtrack.

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They (Bill Monroe, Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs) took the existing forms of music of the day, and radically innovated a new music form. So the spirit of that is happening today. It's taking the roots and turning it into a new thing that's uniquely your own.^[1]

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External links[link]

• Official homepage
• Bio from AlisonKrauss.com
• CMT bio
• BanjoNews bio

Aaron Ramsey

Ramsey playing for Arsenal
Personal information
Full name	Aaron James Ramsey[1]
Date of birth	(1990-12-26) 26 December 1990 (age 21)
Place of birth	Caerphilly, Wales
Height	5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)[2]
Playing position	Midfielder
Club information
Current club	Arsenal
Number	16
Youth career
1999–2006	Cardiff City
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
2006–2008	Cardiff City	16	(1)
2008–	Arsenal	68	(6)
2010–2011	→ Nottingham Forest (loan)	5	(0)
2011	→ Cardiff City (loan)	6	(1)
National team‡
2005–2008	Wales U17	15	(2)
2007–	Wales U21	12	(2)
2008–	Wales	21	(5)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 16:10, 13 May 2012 (UTC). † Appearances (Goals). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 22:10, 27 May 2012 (UTC)

Aaron James Ramsey (born 26 December 1990) is a Welsh footballer who plays for Arsenal and captains the Wales national football team. A central midfielder with a wide range of passing, he established himself as a playmaker for Arsenal following the departure of Cesc Fàbregas.

Ramsey played for Cardiff City as a schoolboy where he spent eight years in youth football before making 16 appearances for the senior team. Ramsey moved to Arsenal in 2008 in a £5 million deal, where he quickly gained first team experience.

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Early life[link]

As a child Ramsey attended Ysgol Gyfun Cwm Rhymni in the Caerphilly County Borough.^[3] Before turning to football, he was a keen rugby player and as a schoolboy he played as a winger for Caerphilly R.F.C.s youth development programme, where he was approached by scouts from Rugby League side St Helens RLFC after playing in a youth match against them^[4] but had already been signed by Cardiff City's youth academy. He lived with his parents, Marlene and Kevin, and his brother, Josh until moving to London where he was housemate with former Cardiff City teammate, Chris Gunter,^[5] who was then playing for Tottenham Hotspur before moving to Nottingham Forest. Ramsey is bilingual, speaking both Welsh and English.^[6]