Alison Krauss and Union Station - Lonely Runs Both Ways
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Artist: Alison Krauss and Union StationBrand: KRAUSS,ALISON
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2004-11-23
Model: 00011661052529
Music Label: Rounder Records Corp.
Soundtracks:
- Gravity
- Restless
- Rain Please Go Away
- Goodbye Is All We Have
- Unionhouse Branch
- Wouldn't Be So Bad
- Pastures of Plenty
- Crazy as Me
- Borderline
- My Poor Old Heart
- This Sad Song
- Doesn't Have to Be This Way
- I Don't Have to Live This Way
- If I Didn't Know Any Better
- A Living Prayer
Music reviews of Lonely Runs Both Ways
Music Review: A very good album, but ...
Rating: 4 Stars
A very good album because everything Alison and Union Station does is very good. The but ... is because it's a star's album: nothing really new, nothing adventurous, nothing daring at all.
Sad, because that's how Alison in particular became a star. Her breakthrough album, a decade ago, featured Lennon and McCartney mixed with gospel, bluegrass, and old rock stuff plus two classics: "Now that I found You,'' an old R&B tune and "When you say Nothing at all.''
This album is formulaic. Four Robert Lee Castlemans, a Welch/Rawlings; some bluegrass stuff by Dan and the obligatory Ron Block religious closing. All well done, some of it interesting, but nothing really new _ the farthest out number is Woody Guthrie's "Pastures of Plenty.'' I grew up with it, so I'm a little tired of it, but I liked the way it was done.
Two thoughts on what this might have been.
1. Shortly after I watched the concert DVD with Alison's explanation (very funny - she could be a standup comic) of her yearning for sad "lost love'' songs, I heard The Band's "It Makes No Difference.'' It's long been one of my favorites and my first thought was that it would make a perfect Alison Kraus number. Lost love from one of the great groups of all time _ as much country, by the way, as they were rock.
2. Recently, my Tivo brought me a Shania Twain concert with AKUS as the backing band. It was wonderful. Not for Twain, who doesn't have half of Alison's talent. But for what AKUS sounded like _ Jerry's dobro like an electric guitar; Ron's acoustic guitar like Keith Richards; Larry's drums like ... well, you get the idea. Alison's vocal and fiddle fills were wonderful, far better than Twain's leads. And the last snippet was a classicly funny one-liner she just threw out there.
Wouldn't it have been nice to have broken formula with that kind of instrumental _ not electric, just new? A couple of things on the live album/DVD _ Ron's "Faraway Land'' comes to mind _ are pretty far out instrumentally, certainly in no country/bluegrass mode that I know. Something like that on this album would have made it a little more spontaneous.
I guess what I hoped for was a reach out. To The Band; even to the Grateful Dead's "Workingman's Dead'' or "American Beauty" albums, both mostly acoustic. I'd love to hear AKUS do "Ripple'' or "Brokedown Palace.'' It might be tough, especially "Ripple,'' although Jimmy Dale Gilmour did a pretty interesting version.
Maybe it was too much to hope for. This is good stuff. It's just stuff produced by stars who now seem very much in the mainstream. Yes, what they've done in the past has brought the mainstream closer to them _ they've changed American country music a bit. But being stars, they would seem to have the cachet to do what they want _ as I write this, the album has been out one day and is No. 4 on Amazon's sales list. Maybe innovation would make it No. 1.
Description of Lonely Runs Both Ways
GRAMMY WINNER FOR BEST COUNTRY ALBUM, BEST COUNTRY PERFORMANCE BY A DUO OR GROUP, AND BEST COUNTRY INSTRUMENTAL PERFORMANCE.Lonely Runs Both Ways is the highly anticipated new studio album from the world?s finest purveyors of Bluegrass, Alison Krauss and Union Station. Featuring instant classics such as "Wouldn?t Be So Bad," "Goodbye Is All We Have," and the lead single, "Restless," Lonely Runs Both Ways is another unforgettable collection of songs from this multiple Grammy-winning act.
Nobody makes somber sound more exquisite than Alison Krauss. She's come an awfully long way from her days as a teenage fiddle prodigy, as her glamour gown on this CD's cover suggests and the bittersweet maturity of the music confirms. Krauss exchanges her bluegrass fiddle for the chamber strains of viola on much of the material, including four songs by Robert Lee Castleman (whose "The Lucky One," "Let Me Touch You for Awhile," and "Forget About It" were previously popularized by Krauss). Castleman's compositions showcase the emotional intimacy and interpretive subtlety of her breathy trill. The yearning harmonies on "Wouldn't Be So Bad" (written by Gillian Welch and David Rawlings) and "Borderline" (written by Sidney and Suzanne Cox) reinforce the album's restless spirit of quiet desperation. Change-of-pace contributions by Krauss's bandmates are more deeply rooted in the bluegrass/folk tradition, with Dan Tyminski renewing Del McCoury's "Rain Please Go Away" and Woody Guthrie's populist anthem "Pastures of Plenty"; Dobro master Jerry Douglas leads the charge on his instrumental "Unionhouse Branch." Few bands in bluegrass can match the virtuosity of Union Station's interplay, but the artistry of Alison Krauss transcends genre. --Don McLeese
Recommended Alison Krauss & Union Station Discography
 Now That I've Found You: A Collection |  Two Highways |  I've Got That Old Feeling |
 Live |  Forget About It |  So Long So Wrong |
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