Lonely Runs Both Ways
Encyclopedia
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.
Album
An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...
by bluegrass music
Bluegrass music
Bluegrass music is a form of American roots music, and a sub-genre of country music. It has mixed roots in Scottish, English, Welsh and Irish traditional music...
group Alison Krauss & Union Station
Alison Krauss
Alison Maria Krauss is an American bluegrass-country singer, songwriter and fiddler. She entered the music industry at an early age, winning local contests by the age of ten and recording for the first time at fourteen. She signed with Rounder Records in 1985 and released her first solo album in...
, 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
- "Gravity" – 3:36 (Robert Lee CastlemanRobert Lee CastlemanRobert Lee Castleman is an American country singer and songwriter.His debut album, "Crazy as Me" was released on Rounder Records in 2000.He has won a Grammy Award in 2002 in the Best Country Song category for writing "The Lucky One" performed by Alison Krauss & Union Station.Other songs he wrote or...
) - "Restless" – 2:51 (Robert Lee Castleman)
- "Rain Please Go Away" – 2:29 (Del McCouryDel McCouryDelano Floyd McCoury is an American bluegrass musician. As leader of the Del McCoury Band, he plays guitar and sings lead vocals along with his two sons, Ronnie McCoury and Rob McCoury, who play mandolin and banjo respectively...
) - "Goodbye Is All We Have" – 3:53 (Sarah SiskindSarah SiskindSarah Siskind is a singer and songwriter based in Nashville and grounded in folk and Appalachian roots. Her music has been classified as: rock, folk, americana, and alternative. Alison Krauss has championed Sarah and values her songs so highly that she’s recorded two of them, both of which became...
) - "Unionhouse Branch" – 2:56 (Jerry DouglasJerry Douglas (musician)Jerry Douglas is an American record producer and resonator guitar player. Called "Dobro's matchless contemporary master," by The New York Times, and lauded as "my favorite musician" by John Fogerty, Douglas is one of the world’s most renowned Dobro players.-Career:In addition to his twelve solo...
) - "Wouldn't Be So Bad" – 3:11 (David RawlingsDavid RawlingsDavid Todd Rawlings is a professional guitarist and singer. He is best known as the longtime musical partner of bluegrass singer-songwriter Gillian Welch.David attended the Berklee College of Music and studied with guitar professor Lauren Passarelli....
, Gillian WelchGillian WelchGillian Welch is an American singer-songwriter. She performs with her musical partner, guitarist David Rawlings. Their sparse and dark musical style, which combines elements of Appalachian music, Bluegrass, and Americana, is described by The New Yorker as "at once innovative and obliquely...
) - "Pastures of Plenty" – 3:45 (Woody GuthrieWoody GuthrieWoodrow Wilson "Woody" Guthrie is best known as an American singer-songwriter and folk musician, whose musical legacy includes hundreds of political, traditional and children's songs, ballads and improvised works. He frequently performed with the slogan This Machine Kills Fascists displayed on his...
) - "Crazy As Me" – 3:14 (Melanie CastlemanMelanie CastlemanMelanie Castleman, née Melanie Spradlin, is a country songwriter. She is originally from Westerville, Ohio.She was nominated for Grammy Award in 2007 for "Like Red on a Rose" by Alan Jackson...
, Robert Lee Castleman) - "Borderline" – 3:26 (Sidney Cox, Suzanne CoxThe Cox FamilyThe Cox Family is an American Bluegrass family group from Cotton Valley in Webster Parish in northwestern Louisiana, United States.-Members:*Evelyn Cox - guitar, vocals*Lynn Cox - - bass, vocals...
) - "My Poor Old Heart" – 3:08 (Donna HughesDonna Hughes (musician)-External links:* * by Derek Halsey, The Herald-Dispatch, September 4, 2008....
) - "This Sad Song" – 2:21 (Alison BrownAlison BrownAlison Brown is an American banjo player and guitarist known for a soft nylon-string banjo sound. She has won and has been nominated on several Grammy awards and is often compared to another banjo prodigy, Béla Fleck for her unique style of playing...
, Alison Krauss) - "Doesn't Have to Be This Way" – 3:34 (Robert Lee Castleman}
- "I Don't Have to Live This Way" – 2:04 (Ron BlockRon BlockRonald Frankin "Ron" Block is an American bluegrass and alternative country musician, mainly playing the banjo and the guitar, singing, and writing gospel music.-Biography:...
) - "If I Didn't Know Any Better" – 3:48 (John Scott SherrillJohn Scott SherrillJohn Scott Sherrill is an American songwriter whose work is primarily in the field of country music. He has written songs for such artists as John Anderson, Brooks & Dunn, Jimmy Buffett , Johnny Lee, George Strait, Steve Wariner, Patty Loveless, Josh Turner, Waylon Jennings, Alison Krauss, Peter...
, Mindy SmithMindy SmithMindy Smith is an American singer-songwriter. Her music can be classified as all of the following: folk, country, Americana, bluegrass, pop, rock, and even alternative. Her voice and music have been compared to that of Shawn Colvin, Patty Griffin, Norah Jones, and Alison Krauss.-Biography:Smith...
) - "A Living Prayer" – 3:35 (Ron Block)
Album
Chart (2004) | Peak position |
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U.S. Billboard 200 Billboard 200 The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists... |
29 |
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums | 6 |
U.S. Billboard Top Bluegrass Albums | 1 |