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Forget About It

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Forget About It
Studio album by
ReleasedAugust 3, 1999 (1999-08-03)
Recorded1999
StudioEmerald Sound Studios and Seventeen Grand Recording, Nashville, Tennessee
GenreBluegrass, country, adult contemporary
Length40:13
LabelRounder
ProducerAlison Krauss & Union Station
Alison Krauss chronology
So Long So Wrong
(1997)
Forget About It
(1999)
New Favorite
(2001)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[2]
Rolling Stone[3]

Forget About It is a studio album by Alison Krauss, released in 1999.[4] It reached number 5 on the Billboard Country Albums chart. The lead single, "Forget About It", peaked at number 67 on the Country Singles Chart, and "Stay" reached number 28 on the Adult Contemporary chart.

Critical reception

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Country Standard Time wrote that "despite the prominence of dobro and mandolin here, it's obvious that Krauss is a pop star more than anything else."[5]

Track listing

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  1. "Stay" (Larry Byrom, Allyson Taylor) – 3:25
  2. "Forget About It" (Robert Lee Castleman) – 3:30
  3. "It Wouldn't Have Made Any Difference" (Todd Rundgren)– 4:28
  4. "Maybe" (Gordon Kennedy, Phil Madeira) – 3:47
  5. "Empty Hearts" (Michael McDonald, Michael Johnson) – 3:24
  6. "Never Got Off the Ground" (Danny O'Keefe) – 3:40
  7. "Ghost in This House" (Hugh Prestwood) – 4:04
  8. "It Don't Matter Now" (Michael McDonald) – 2:50
  9. "That Kind of Love" (Pat Bergeson, Michael McDonald) – 3:43
  10. "Could You Lie" (Ron Block) – 2:54
  11. "Dreaming My Dreams With You" (Allen Reynolds) – 4:28 (featuring Dolly Parton and Lyle Lovett)

Personnel

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Production notes:

  • Gary Paczosa – engineer, mixing
  • Doug Sax – mastering
  • Sandy Jenkins – engineer, assistant engineer
  • Thomas "Snake" Johnson – engineer, assistant engineer
  • Tim Waters – assistant engineer
  • Chuck Turner – digital editing
  • Tracy Martinson – digital editing
  • Matthew Barnes – photography
  • Nancy Given – art direction, design

Chart performance

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References

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  1. ^ "Forget About It - Alison Krauss | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic" – via www.allmusic.com.
  2. ^ Colin Larkin (2006). "Krauss, Alison". The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 5 (4th ed.). Muze, Oxford University Press. p. 24. ISBN 978-0-19-531373-4.
  3. ^ "Alison Krauss: Forget About It : Music Reviews : Rolling Stone". Rolling Stone. December 17, 2007. Archived from the original on 2007-12-17.
  4. ^ "Alison Krauss | Biography & History". AllMusic.
  5. ^ "Alison Krauss - Forget About It". www.countrystandardtime.com.
  6. ^ "Alison Krauss Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved November 16, 2020.
  7. ^ "Alison Krauss Chart History (Top Country Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved November 16, 2020.
  8. ^ "Top Country Albums – Year-End 1999". Billboard. 2 January 2013. Retrieved November 16, 2020.
  9. ^ "Top Country Albums – Year-End 2000". Billboard. 2 January 2013. Retrieved November 16, 2020.