Keith Whitley: A Tribute Album is a posthumous collection honouring the Kentucky baritone who died in 1989 at the height of his powers, featuring Alison Krauss on fiddle and vocals, Dan Tyminski on guitar and vocals, Ron Block on banjo and guitar, Adam Steffey on mandolin, and Barry Bales on bass — essentially the full lineup of Union Station at their early creative peak. Whitley, who had begun his career as a teenager recording Stanley Brothers material with Ricky Skaggs, remained a bluegrass figure at heart even after his mainstream country breakthrough. The Union Station ensemble honours this heritage, returning Whitley's best-known songs to a purely acoustic context that reveals their deep roots in the Appalachian tradition he loved most.
Tracklist
- 1 When You Say Nothing at All Source Recording 4:21
