Lonely Runs Both Ways CD

DESCRIPTION: Over the past decade, Alison Krauss & Union Station have created and fine-tuned an approach that can deliver restrained, moody ballads and mid-tempo songs, hard-edged bluegrass and traditional material and instrumentals with equal helpings of skill and conviction. The result is one of the most distinctive and compelling sounds in popular music, a verdict ratified by a slew of awards - Krauss herself owns more Grammys than any other female artist - and invitations to join all kinds of special projects, from the rootsy "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" soundtrack to a televised special with Shania Twain. Their latest album offers a generous supply of evidence that they're still on the rising edge of a creative wave. Though Ron Block's banjo adorns only a handful of its 15 tracks, bluegrass rhythms are a little more prominent than they were on their last studio album - a move sure to please fans of the genre, as will their driving reading of Del McCoury's old standby, "Rain