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www.herald review.comEntertainment 4 TIMEOUT! Friday, august 15, .2003 decatur, Illinois jiUta LTD mink Alison Krauss, Union Station enjoy wave of goodwill from 'O I vra irvo I rrr-rn ir nr i lrr' A sold-out house will hear Alison Krauss and Union Station when they perform Wednesday at Sangamon Auditorium in Springfield. 'People who play bluegrass are really lucky (because of 'O Brother Where Art The same thing, though, would have happened with other forms of music if they had been featured there. If it had been Cajun music, people would have been going cuckoo over Cajun music' Alison Krauss if better than they ever have. "That's a never-ending goal," she says. "What you discover is, the older you get, the better you get.

Your voice becomes more expressive because you've lived mora" Making her life even fuller is a 3-year-old son who's "very picky about what we listen to. He's already shown some amazing ability. He has a natural sense of time, and he can sing in tune." Unlike others in the business, she doesn't display the Gram-mys, the CMAs or the other awards that have come her way. Some are with her mother. Some are at her office.

"Here," the 31-year-old says by phone from her Tennessee home, "I'm my son's mom. I'm not a performer." 1 By BRUCE R. MILLER Staff Writer Bluegrass music is bigger than ever, and Alison Krauss says -that's due in no small part to the movies. "It's the easiest way to get it out there," the Decatur native says. "When people got to hear it in 'O Brother Where Art they went crazy.

It was a whole movie with this amazing soundtrack. It wasn't just a getaway scena" Krauss, who was born in Decatur and raised in Champaign, returns to Central Illinois this week. She will perform a sold-out show at Sangamon Auditorium in Springfield on Wednesday with her band, Union Station, featuring Jerry Douglas. Krauss also has a date sched- Alison Krauss was born in Decatur Sfe'i liMiiiii.lj3KI WHAT: Alison Krauss with Union Station featuring Jerry Douglas. WHEN: Springfield: 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Aug. 20; Peoria: 7:30 p.m. Monday, Sept 8. WHERE: Sangamon Auditorium, University of Illinois-Springfield; Peoria Civic Center Theatre. TICKETS: Springfield, sold out; Peoria, $37.50 at TicketMaster outlets or www.ticketmaster.com.

ONLINE: www.alisonkrauss.com; www.sangamonauditorium.org; www.peoriaciviccenter.com. uled at the Peoria Civic Center Theatre on Sept. 8. Bluegrass musicians get the bump once every decade or so, Krauss says. "The last time was and raised in Champaign.

probably Before that, it was the 'The Beverly And now? Bluegrass is riding a wave of goodwill, and Krauss and Union Station are the biggest surfers of them all. Since Dan Tyminski, her guitarist, was the voice behind "Man of Constant Sorrow," they've been tied to the trend and they're not complaining. "People who play bluegrass are really lucky," Krauss says. "The same thing, though, would have happened with other forms of music if they had been featured there. If it had been Cajun music, people would have been going cuckoo over Cajun music.

They're just these wonderful forms of music that you can't get to easily." An Brother" sparks interest but doesn't necessarily ensure it. Krauss learned that lesson nearly a decade ago, when a song she sang on a Keith Whitley tribute album, "When You Say Nothing at All," made her the darling of the Country Music Association. She won an armful of awards in 1995 but knew it was a fluke. "It was very shortlived," she says. "That night we said, 'Boy, that was and that was really the last time anybody in the band talked about it.

The song did really well for another record label, not ours, and it was the only song of ours that had been played on the radio. We didn't see it as having a huge impact on our career, because we've never made commercial music." Country music fans, as a result, don't quite know what to make of Krauss and company. After the big CMA win, she was pitched plenty of songs, but she didn't want to leave her roots. "We get very satisfied by being pleased with what we've done," she says, "not with how much it's getting played on the radio." Krauss didn't think she even had a career in the business until she and the other band members realized they were living in Nashville and the music was the only thing they were doing "we didn't have to make a living any other way." The bluegrass bug bit when she was 7, but it wasn't something she talked aboutm because she didn't think others were interested. "People would just find out about it." Then attention started to come her way, and The Big Year happened.

Now, Krauss says, the goal is to make a better record than the last one, do a better show than the one the night before, play.

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