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.

Lonely Runs Both Ways
Studio album by
ReleasedNovember 23, 2004 (2004-11-23)
Recorded2004
Studio17 Grand Recording, Blackbird Studio, Minutia Recording Studio, Nashville
GenreBluegrass
Length47:38
LabelRounder
ProducerAlison Krauss & Union Station
Alison Krauss chronology
Live
(2002)
Lonely Runs Both Ways
(2004)
A Hundred Miles or More: A Collection
(2007)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Track listing edit

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Gravity"Robert Lee Castleman3:36
2."Restless"Robert Lee Castleman2:51
3."Rain Please Go Away"Del McCoury2:29
4."Goodbye Is All We Have"Sarah Siskind3:53
5."Unionhouse Branch"Jerry Douglas2:56
6."Wouldn't Be So Bad"David Rawlings, Gillian Welch3:11
7."Pastures Of Plenty"Woody Guthrie3:45
8."Crazy As Me"Robert Lee Castleman, Melanie Castleman3:14
9."Borderline"Sidney Cox, Suzanne Cox3:26
10."My Poor Old Heart"Donna Hughes3:08
11."This Sad Song"Alison Brown, Alison Krauss2:21
12."Doesn't Have To Be This Way"Robert Lee Castleman3:34
13."I Don't Have To Live This Way"Ron Block2:04
14."If I Didn't Know Any Better"John Scott Sherrill, Mindy Smith3:48
15."A Living Prayer"Ron Block3:35

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References edit

  1. ^ "Alison Krauss Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved November 14, 2020.
  2. ^ "Alison Krauss Chart History (Top Bluegrass Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved November 14, 2020.
  3. ^ "Alison Krauss Chart History (Top Country Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved November 14, 2020.
  4. ^ "Top Billboard 200 Albums – Year-End 2005". Billboard. Retrieved November 14, 2020.
  5. ^ "Top Country Albums – Year-End 2005". Billboard. Retrieved November 14, 2020.