Lonely Runs Both Ways

Infobox Album
Name = Lonely Runs Both Ways
Type = Album
Artist = 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
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:4wdqoataeijd~T1 link]
*BBC [http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/folkcountry/reviews/alisonkrauss_lonely.shtml link]
*"Guardian Unlimited" Rating|3|5 [http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/reviews/story/0,11712,1354230,00.html link]
*Music Box Rating|4|5 [http://www.musicbox-online.com/ak-lone.html link]
*PopMatters [http://www.popmatters.com/music/reviews/k/krausalison-lonely.shtml link]
Last album = "Live"
(2002)
This album = "Lonely Runs Both Ways" (2004)
Next album = ""
(2007)

"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

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

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