Forget About It Explained

Forget About It
Type:	studio
Artist:	Alison Krauss
Cover:	Alison Krauss-Forget About It.jpg
Recorded:	1999
Studio:	Emerald Sound Studios and Seventeen Grand Recording, Nashville, Tennessee
Genre:	Bluegrass, country, adult contemporary
Label:	Rounder
Producer:	Alison Krauss & Union Station
Prev Title:	So Long So Wrong
Prev Year:	1997
Next Title:	New Favorite
Next Year:	2001

Forget About It is a studio album by Alison Krauss, released in 1999.^[1] 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

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."^[2]

Track listing

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

• Alison Krauss – fiddle, vocals, harmony vocals
• Viktor Krauss – bass
• Barry Bales – bass, harmony vocals
• Jim Keltner – drums
• Kenny Malone – drums
• Pat Bergeson – guitar
• Ron Block – guitar, harmony vocals
• Sam Bush – mandolin, slide mandolin, harmony vocals
• Lyle Lovett – harmony vocals on "Dreaming My Dreams With You"
• Evelyn Cox – harmony vocals
• Sidney Cox – harmony vocals
• Suzanne Cox – harmony vocals
• Dolly Parton – harmony vocals on "Dreaming My Dreams With You"
• Jerry Douglas – Dobro, lap steel guitar
• Joey Miskulin – accordion
• Matt Rollings – piano
• Dan Tyminski – guitar, harmony vocals

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

Year-end charts

Chart (1999)	Position
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)^[3]	62
Chart (2000)	Position
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)^[4]	53

Notes and References

1. Web site: Alison Krauss | Biography & History. AllMusic.
2. Web site: Alison Krauss - Forget About It. www.countrystandardtime.com.
3. Web site: Top Country Albums – Year-End 1999. Billboard. 2 January 2013. November 16, 2020.
4. Web site: Top Country Albums – Year-End 2000. Billboard. 2 January 2013. November 16, 2020.