Krauss, who was visiting London, said: "It's not that I have resisted songwriting, it's just not something I felt I have had to do. I've just not woken up and thought, I must do this. But I have often heard music that I have instantly felt 'I have to sing that song'." One such song being English singer-songwriter Thompson's Dimming Of The Day.
Krauss said: "I've never met Richard Thompson but I heard the song from T-Bone Burnett when we were working on the second version of Raising Sand (Burnett had produced her first Grammy-winning collaboration with Robert Plant and they have experimented with a follow-up).
When I heard the song, I thought 'Oh, I can't take that on. Oh, I can't. But T-Bone said 'give it a shot'. We moved on to another project but I kept thinking about the song and how I could make it OK. Then I thought, well nobody has done a bluegrass version so we tried making it more sparse."
