Alison Krauss is back with her band Union Station for their first album in 14 years. Arcadia will be out on March 28 through Down the Road Records and will be supported by a previously announced North American tour.
Arcadia is the follow-up to 2011's Paper Airplane. This latest album features a new member, Russell Moore of IIIrd Tyme Out, who joins on co-lead vocals as well as guitar and mandolin.
Krauss said in a statement, "The stories of the past are told in this music. It's that whole idea of 'in the good old days when times were bad.' There's so much bravery and valour and loyalty and dreaming, of family and themes of human existence that were told in a certain way when our grandparents were alive. Someone asked me, 'How do you sing these tragic tunes?' I have to. It's a calling. I feel privileged to be a messenger of somebody else's story. And I want to hear what happened."
Hear the single, the opening track "Looks Like the End of the Road," below.
Tickets for the band's tour are already on sale. There are Canadian stops in Calgary, Saskatoon, Winnipeg and Toronto.
Arcadia:
1. Looks Like the End of the Road
2. The Hangman
3. The Wrong Way
4. Granite Mills
5. One Ray of Shine
6. Richmond on the James
7. North Side Gal
8. Forever
9. Snow
10. There's a Light Up Ahead