New Alison Krauss Album Set for Release

On Nov. 23, Rounder Records will release Lonely Runs Both Ways, the first studio album in three years from Alison Krauss + Union Station. Produced by the band and recorded in Nashville, the album features songs by some of its favorite writers, including Robert Lee Castleman, Sidney and Suzanne Cox, and Gillian Welch and David Rawlings. Also included are songs by Union Station members Jerry Douglas and Ron Block, as well as John Scott Sherrill and Mindy Smith, Del McCoury, Woody Guthrie, Donna Hughes and Sarah Siskind.

The new recording follows 2002's platinum Alison Krauss + Union Station Live - their fastest selling album ever - and their last studio release, 2001's gold-certified New Favorite. Castleman's "Restless" will be the album's first single.

Lonely Runs Both Ways Track Listing:

1. "Gravity" (Robert Lee Castleman)
2. "Restless" (Robert Lee Castleman)
3. "Rain Please Go Away" (Del McCoury)
4. "Goodbye Is All We Have" (Sarah Siskind)
5. "Unionhouse Branch" (Jerry Douglas)
6. "Wouldn't Be So Bad" (Gillian Welch and David Rawlings)
7. "Pastures of Plenty" (Woody Guthrie)
8. "Crazy As Me" (Robert Lee Castleman and Melanie Castleman)
9. "Borderline" (Sidney Cox and Suzanne Cox)
10. "Poor Old Heart" (Donna Hughes)
11. "This Sad Song" (Alison Krauss/Alison Brown)
12. "Doesn't Have To Be This Way" (Robert Lee Castleman)
13. "I Don't Have to Live this Way" (Ron Block)
14. "If I Didn't Know Any Better" (John Scott Sherrill and Mindy Smith)
15. "A Living Prayer" (Ron Block)

Alison Krauss + Union Station will make a release-week appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and a December performance is confirmed for Good Morning America. Krauss is also scheduled to perform at the 38th Annual Country Music Association Awards on Nov. 9 in Nashville, where she is nominated in five categories including Female Vocalist, Video, Vocal Event and Single of the Year, the latter for "Whiskey Lullaby," her duet with Brad Paisley.

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