Lonely Runs Both Ways

Lonely Runs Both Ways
Studio album by Alison Krauss & Union Station
Released November 23, 2004
Recorded 2004 at 17 Grand Recording, Blackbird Studio and Minutia Recording Studio, Nashville
Genre Bluegrass
Length 47:38
Label Rounder
Producer Alison Krauss & Union Station
Alison Krauss chronology

Live
(2002)
Lonely Runs Both Ways
(2004)
A Hundred Miles or More: A Collection
(2007)
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Lonely Runs Both Ways is the twelfth album by bluegrass music group Alison Krauss & Union Station, released November 23, 2004. The album won the band three Grammy Awards in 2006, including Best Country Performance By a Duo or Group with Vocal for the song "Restless", Best Country Instrumental Performance for "Unionhouse Branch", and Best Country Album. The song "A Living Prayer" was honored with the award for Bluegrass Recorded Song of the Year from the Gospel Music Association.

Track listing

  1. "Gravity" – 3:36 (Robert Lee Castleman)
  2. "Restless" – 2:51 (Castleman)
  3. "Rain Please Go Away" – 2:29 (Del McCoury)
  4. "Goodbye Is All We Have" – 3:53 (Sarah Siskind)
  5. "Unionhouse Branch" – 2:56 (Jerry Douglas)
  6. "Wouldn't Be So Bad" – 3:11 (David Rawlings, Gillian Welch)
  7. "Pastures of Plenty" – 3:45 (Woody Guthrie)
  8. "Crazy As Me" – 3:14 (Castleman)
  9. "Borderline" – 3:26 (Sidney Cox, Suzanne Cox)
  10. "My Poor Old Heart" – 3:08 (Donna Hughes)
  11. "This Sad Song" – 2:21 (Alison Brown, Alison Krauss)
  12. "Doesn't Have to Be This Way" – 3:34 (Castleman)
  13. "I Don't Have to Live This Way" – 2:04 (Ron Block)
  14. "If I Didn't Know Any Better" – 3:48 (John Scott Sherrill, Mindy Smith)
  15. "A Living Prayer" – 3:35 (Block)

Chart performance

Album

Chart (2004) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard 200[1] 29
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums[1] 6
U.S. Billboard Top Bluegrass Albums[1] 1

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