Hey dawg,
I remember reading about Alison's Grammy's last year, probably around Grammy time. She has a beautiful voice! I first heard of Alison when I went to see Bonnie Raiit in Atlantic City for the recording of Decades Rock Live by VH-1; Allison was a guest along with Nora Jones, Keb Mo, Ben Harper etc. I immediately bought whatever CD Alison had out at the time with Union Station....I listened once and never again, real bluegrassy, not my cup of tea. If you are interested, I can dig it out and mail it to you. 
Alison has covered alot of turf with her music, she is very talented musician and I thought her work with Robert Plant was interesting.
Anyway, I just read this about the Grammy's. http://www.philly.com/philly/insights/i … world.html
"The Grammys have been widely mocked - by this critic, among others - for being the most overly generous of awards. The Oscars give out 24 awards. This year's symbol of the just-about-anyone-can-win-a-Grammy syndrome is actress Tia Carrere of Wayne's World fame, who won the award for best Hawaiian music album in February.
So with award inflation a point of fact - in 1959, at the first ceremony, 28 Grammys were presented - you might think that the category culling would be widely applauded as a necessary step toward regaining relevancy.
Wrong.
Instead, the cutbacks have been widely derided. For one thing, they sidestep the Grammys' real credibility problem. And that is, in prime time the Grammys present awards like album of the year to either out-of-the-blue choices (like Herbie Hancock's River: The Joni Letters, which beat out Kanye West and Amy Winehouse in 2008), or high-selling but insubstantial acts (like country-pop trio Lady Antebellum, which took home five awards this year)."
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