I Googled it too, and I never heard of her either. I did listen to her on YouTube and was impressed. I was going to guess Aretha Franklin as well.

Well, since everyone is Googling the answer,  let's tell Xtal  so he doesn't have to Google  it also.

Allison Krauss.  

And Toger is right.   She is considered a bluegass singer.   That is what I was trying to say by saying it was a sub genre of popular music.  Because there are other Grammy categories.   My favorite female singer is Renee Fleming who does opera and has won a couple Grammys herself.

So how is it that  I know who Allison Krauss is and hardly anyone else here does?  I worries me.   But I am not sure if I should worry about me or all of you.

My path to Allison Krauss is a bit like life -- very circuitous with unexpected results.   She sang one of the Johnny Mercer  songs (This Time the Dreams on Me) on the soundtrack of Clint Eastwood's movie -- Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.   As soon as I heard her voice,  I said, "Who is this?" and I watched all of the credits to find out.   Then I looked her up and listened to more of her music.  This brought me back to bluegrass that I had really loved back in my college days when it was big on college campuses along with folk music and blues.  

OK, so much for that question.  I seem to be striking out on the questions I ask.  Maybe I am not asking trivia but obscure facts of little interest to anyone but me.   

So,  Jen, do have to do the next one?

kay 

Krauss is darn fine. The Plant duo has been praised to the skies and that I don't get.

More interesting to me was her & the band cut an album with Robyn Hitchcock. I didn't love it but the two have different working styles. Union rehearses obsessively to have everything note-perfect live and recorded and Hitchcock (in)famously whacks things out as quickly as possible. Write, improvise, two or three takes and minimal post-production. Huge output and exciting but wildly inconsistent results. It's an odd pairing, and odder still that Union all love the guy and were dieing to work with him.

Biases: I adore Hitchcock and love bluegrass. Great as Krauss & Union are the burnished sheen sometimes puts me off.

Check out the Demme concert film Storefront Hitchcock. It's not the best track list but I find it utterly charming. Not as good as the earlier Stop Making Sense but up there, like the performers involved or not.

Must be someone who also wrote scripts or directed as well as acted. I'll have to think a while.

I don't have a clue.  But I will take another guess (three guesses) --  Johnny Carson,  David Letterman,  Opera Winfree????

Kay

For a little amusement,  I will tell you C.R. was Carl Rove.   But, of course, it is Karl Rove.  And how would he get an Emmy for anything.   So I have no idea.   It is up to other people.

Who is CR?

kay