Alison Krauss on Her First Album With Union Station in Over a Decade, ‘Arcadia,’ and the Long Tour to Follow: ‘I’m Champing at the Bit’

variety.com:

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Alison Krauss will sell no high, lonesome sound before its time. Her fans don’t have to be reminded — although we will anyway — that it’s been 11 years since the last tour by her bluegrass band, Alison Krauss & Union Station, and an even longer 14 since the group’s last album.

She and the other members have had side hustles, of course, like Krauss spending the last three summers on the road with a Robert Plant co-bill, which is no one’s idea of slumming.

But in the roots music world, the Union Station reunion has true event status. The newly released “Arcadia” album picks up more or less where AK&US left off nearly a decade and a half ago.

There’s been a key personnel change, with co-lead vocalist Dan Tyminski taking his leave and being replaced by Russell Moore, already a bluegrass star in his own right as leader of the band Russell Moore and IIIrd Tyme Out. “Time-outs” are something that’s ripe for discussion among patient Krauss fans, but when Variety got down to a discussion with the singer-fiddler about the wait for “Arcadia,” she made it sound like it’s the most natural thing in the world to wait and find the perfect set of songs.