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)Live2002 Lonely Runs Both Ways (2004) A Hundred Miles or More: A Collection (2007)A Hundred Miles or More: A Collection2007

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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	29
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums	6
U.S. Billboard Top Bluegrass Albums	1