American Songwriter Magazine Concert Review

American Songwriter Magazine reviewed Alison Krauss and Union Station's recent show at The Ryman Auditorium, including Angel's opening performance.  Read the entire review here.

Opening act Angel Snow also cast a spell over the crowd. They adopted her early, and not just because of her angelic good looks. Her songs, which were played to perfection by her all-acoustic band, have an air of magic to them — at times sounding like Gillian Welch mixed with Sarah Mclachlan; other times,  like an Appalachian Fiona Apple or Jeff Buckley. Krauss discovered Snow’s music via her CD demo, and ended up including her song “Lie Awake” on Paper Airplane. Watching Snow on this night, on the famed Ryman stage, it felt like a star was born.

 

'The Boot' Feature

AOL Music's The Boot recently interviewed Alison Krauss about her new album Paper Airplane.  Here's an excerpt from the interview:

AOL: Your brother, Viktor, wrote 'Lie Awake' for the album. That's a gorgeous song.

ALISON: He wrote that with a beautiful songwriter named Angel Snow. I was driving from Indianapolis back to Nashville, and this song came on the radio. It was a pop song and I loved the way the melody of the verse and the chorus stayed where it was, it didn't go someplace else. The thing that made the chorus the chorus was the harmony. I thought, "Oh, man, I wish we had something like that." I called my brother and asked him if he knew that song. He said, "Oh, yeah, I know that song. I sing it to my wife." I said, "Can you try and write something like that." He said, "Yeah, I think I can." Vik isn't a lyricist, so he wrote a track for it, and Angel and he got together and she wrote the lyrics. They're such beautiful, truthful lyrics.

Read the entire interview here.