New Favorite cover Shannon King

NEW FAVORITE

LYRICS

New Favorite

Alison Krauss

New Favorite

They all say it

I'll say it too

You've got a new favorite

You're old standby

Your right hand guy

Is nothing new

You've got a new favorite

Why do you lie about love?

I saw the light go out

And should I go

You won't say so

I know its true

I know you've got a new favorite

I know you've got a new favorite

You've got a new favorite

Source: LyricFind

Songwriters: David Todd Rawlings / Gillian Howard Welch

New Favorite lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Wixen Music Publishing

About the song: "New Favorite is the ninth album by bluegrass music group Alison Krauss & Union Station, released August 14, 2001. The album peaked in the top 50 of the Billboard 200 and within the top 5 of the Billboard charts for both Country and Bluegrass and was certified gold. This album was released in the same year as the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack, which Krauss appeared on, that had a large effect on bluegrass in the United States. At the 44th Grammy Awards, New Favorite would go on to win the Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album and the single "The Lucky One" won the Grammy Award for Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal as well as Best Country Song.[1]" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Favorite)

About Allison Krauss: "Alison Maria Krauss (born July 23, 1971) is an American bluegrass-country singer and musician. She entered the music industry at an early age, winning local contests by the age of 10 and recording for the first time at 14. She signed with Rounder Records in 1985 and released her first solo album in 1987. She was invited to join the band with which she still performs, Alison Krauss and Union Station, and later released her first album with them as a group in 1989.[1]

She has released fourteen albums, appeared on numerous soundtracks, and helped renew interest in bluegrass music in the United States. Her soundtrack performances have led to further popularity, including the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack, an album also credited with raising American interest in bluegrass, and the Cold Mountain soundtrack, which led to her performance at the 2004 Academy Awards.

As of 2019, she has won 27 Grammy Awards from 42 nominations, ranking her third behind Quincy Jones and classical conductor Georg Solti for most Grammy Award wins.[2] She is the most awarded singer and the most awarded female artist in Grammy history.[3] At the time of her first, the 1991 Grammy Awards, she was the second-youngest winner (currently tied as the ninth-youngest).

On November 21, 2019, she was awarded the National Medal of Arts by President Donald Trump.[4]

Alison Maria Krauss[5] was born in Decatur, Illinois,[6][7][a] to Fred and Louise Krauss. Her father was a German immigrant who came to the United States in 1952 and taught his native language. Her mother, of German and Italian descent, is the daughter of artists. Her older brother, Viktor, is also a musician. Krauss grew up in the college town of Champaign, home to the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign[8] where she lived from 1972 to around 1990.[9] She began studying classical violin at age 5 but soon switched to bluegrass. Krauss said she first became involved with music because "[my] mother tried to find interesting things for me to do" and "wanted to get me involved in music, in addition to art and sports".[10]

At the age of 8 she started entering local talent contests, and at 10 had her own band. At 13, she won the Walnut Valley Festival Fiddle Championship,[11] and the Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass in America named her the "Most Promising Fiddler in the Midwest".[12] She was also called "virtuoso" by Vanity Fair magazine.[13]

Krauss first met Dan Tyminski around 1984 at a festival held by the Society. Every current member of her band, Union Station, first met her at these festivals.[14]

Krauss made her recording debut in 1985 on the independent album, Different Strokes, featuring her brother Viktor Krauss, Swamp Weiss and Jim Hoiles. From the age of 12 she performed with bassist and songwriter John Pennell in a band called "Silver Rail", replacing their previous fiddler Andrea Zonn.[15] Pennell later changed the band's name to Union Station after another band was discovered with the name Silver Rail.[16] Pennell remains one of her favorite songwriters[17] and wrote some of her early work including the popular "Every Time You Say Goodbye".

Later that year, she signed to Rounder Records, and in 1987, at 16, she released her debut album Too Late to Cry with Union Station as her backup band.[18]

Krauss' debut solo album was quickly followed by her first group album with Union Station in 1989, Two Highways.[19] The album includes the traditional tunes "Wild Bill Jones" and "Beaumont Rag", along with a bluegrass interpretation of The Allman Brothers' "Midnight Rider".

Krauss' contract with Rounder required her to alternate between releasing a solo album and an album with Union Station, and she released the solo album I've Got That Old Feeling in 1990. It was her first album to rise onto the Billboard charts, peaking in the top seventy-five on the country chart. The album also was a notable point in her career as she earned her first Grammy Award, the single "Steel Rails" was her first single tracked by Billboard, and the title single "I've Got That Old Feeling" was the first song for which she recorded a music video." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alison_Krauss).