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Re: What could comedian Steve Martin have in common with former Senator Robert Byrd ? Entertainer Penn Jillette explains attending a Steve Martin Bluegrass performance: (some raw language) Steve Martin's Wild and Crazy Bluegrass LIVE - Penn Point - YouTube

Re: What could comedian Steve Martin have in common with former Senator Robert Byrd ? Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia: Sen. Robert Byrd-Playing & Singing - YouTube Sen. Robert. C. Byrd plays Bluegrass @ The White House 1980 -...

Playing Bluegrass music! Edie Brickell Steve Martin - YouTube Steve Martin discusses Bluegrass music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZA_O4-1-BtA

As an added bonus, attentive listeners to the concert linked above will hear a running dialogue between Alison and one of her bandmates about Phil Robertson's Duck Commander hunting videos. Mind you, this concert was recorded in 2002. Nearly a decade before the Duck Dynasty television show...

There was something unseemly about Obama's urgent rush to have a photo-op with the parents. Grandstanding? An attempt to change the national conversation away from the VA scandal and Benghazi. Obama is not being well served by his staff by creating some gussed up euphoria media event to...

It is a special delight to watch the younger generation excel.

After the mistruths fed to us about Jessica Lynch and Pat Tillman, why should we believe any official version of events?

Sierra Hull, 2011: Sierra Hull - Daybreak EPK - YouTube

While still in high school: Sierra Hull on her debut album "Secrets" - YouTube At the White House, 20 years old: Alison Krauss - "When You Say Nothing At All" (Performance at the White House 2011) - YouTube

Watch the trajectory of talent emerge from a 10 year-old Sierra Hull to where her music is today. 10 years old: Sierra Hull & Sam Bush - YouTube 16 years old: Sierra Hull - Secrets Songs & Tunes mandolin DVD - YouTube

Finally, a 3 hour live performance recorded in 2002 at the Louisville Palace. Louisville, KY. Made into a live album. This is as good as live music gets in this life. Alison Krauss & Union Station Live Louisville 2002 - YouTube Anyone listening to the banter between the songs will...

Alison receiving honorary degree from Berklee College of Music: Alison Krauss [Berklee College of Music - Commencement Ceremony] - YouTube

Here's a short interview with Alison Krauss in 1989 when she was 18 years old. Don't Follow Me - Alison Krauss + Union Station (18 years old!!) - YouTube

Same song, live performance at the White House. Notice the child prodigy playing mandolin, Sierra Hull. Alison has acted as a mentor to Sierra who is now a bluegrass phenom in her own right. Alison Krauss performs "When You Say Nothing At All" | In Performance at the White House - YouTube

From 1995, Allison in early-mid 20's. Flawless perfection. Alison Krauss - When You Say Nothing At All - YouTube

Live performance, 2002, Louisville, KY: Baby, now that I've found you - Alison Krauss and Union Station - YouTube

Growing up in Central Appalachia, I saw many, many river baptisms taking place in the 1960's, 70's and 80's. Bridge traffic crossing the Levisa Fork River at Feds Creek would come to a halt until all baptisms were complete. It was the custom of the times. Normally, it was 10 or 15 people in...

I attended my first Alison Krauss concert in 1995 in Pikeville, Kentucky. That same year she and her band appeared on Dave Letterman's show. It takes big ones to perform a gospel song on Letterman's show. He and the audience knew they were witnessing something special. Alison Krauss &...

Bluegrass gospel tune: In The Palm of Your Hand - YouTube

A 19 year-old Alison: Alison Krauss - I've Got That Old Feeling (1991) - YouTube