not a country music fan
But the 'old timey music' on this album bears no relationship to the dreck that comes off the airwaves. The songs are clean and pure, the harmonies amazing. Unsentimental, but full of emotion, each song is a pleasure to hear over and over. The harmonies (on alison krauss's songs in particular) sound fresh and new, and at the same time as if they had existed for a century somewhere in the American consciousness. None of this music seems to have been written, it all grew naturally from some soul plant that ranged over fifty years ago from deep in the Appalachians down to the Louisiana mud.