Alison Krauss Music:

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A Hundred Miles or More: A Collection Track Listing:
1. You're Just a Country Boy
2. Simple Love
3. Jacob's Dream
4. Away Down the River
5. Sawing on the Strings
6. Down to the River to Pray
7. Baby Mine
8. Molly Bán
9. How's the World Treating You (duet with James Taylor)
10. The Scarlet Tide
11. Whiskey Lullaby (duet with Brad Paisley)
12. You Will Be My Ain True Love
13. I Give You to His Heart
14. Get Me Through December
15. Missing You (duet with John Waite)
16. Lay Down Beside Me (previously unreleased duet with John Waite)

Editorial Review:
"A Hundred Miles or More: A Collection" is comprised of 16 tracks, highlighting Alison Krauss's career outside of her traditional releases with longtime band Union Station. The album features Krauss's collaboration with John Waite on the single "Missing You," as well as Krauss's contributions to film soundtracks, including the Oscar-nominated songs "The Scarlet Tide" and "You Will Be My Ain True Love," written for the motion picture "Cold Mountain," and "Down to the River to Pray" from the film "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" Known for her collaborations, Krauss also includes several duets in the collection such as the 2003 hit with Brad Paisley, "Whiskey Lullaby," and her duet with James Taylor for the tribute album "Livin', Lovin', Losin': Songs of the Louvin Brothers," "How's the World Treating You." The collection debuts five new songs: "You're Just a Country Boy," "Jacob's Dream," "Simple Love," "Lay Down Beside Me," and "Away Down the River," all of which feature Krauss as a producer.

Description of A Hundred Miles or More: A Collection:
A Hundred Miles or More carries the subtitle A Collection, and what a curious collection it is--cuts from soundtracks, side projects, and tribute albums, plus guest duets on other artists' albums and five previously unreleased tracks. In other words, this is a collection of Alison Krauss performances that have never appeared on an Alison Krauss album, though it holds together better than such a grab-bag approach might suggest. Highlights such as her duet with Brad Paisley on "Whiskey Lullaby" and her a cappella rendition of "Down to the River to Pray" from O Brother, Where Art Thou? will be familiar to most Krauss fans, though it's doubtful that many share her infatuation with retro rocker John Waite (with whom she revives his "Missing You" and duets on a cover of Don Williams's "Lay Down Beside Me."). Other projects represented range from Disney to the Chieftains to the Louvin Brothers (she duets with James Taylor on their "How's the World Treating You." There's minimal contribution from her Union Station band--making this a solo release by default--and little information to indicate whether the previously unreleased tracks were outtakes from earlier releases or recently recorded for this one. --Don McLeese

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A Hundred Miles or More: A Collection Reviews:
Permanent spot in our cd player
2009-10-13 - My mom bought this cd early this summer and it has become a permanent installment in our kitchen cd player. What a beautiful cd from Alison Krauss! She does duets with James Taylor (another of my fav artists), Brad Paisley, and John Waite and does them beautifully. The song "Jacob's Dream" is a hauntingly beautiful and sad song about two boys lost in the mountains; based on a true story. "Whiskey Lullaby" is the duet with Paisley...what a sad song! The incdredible guitar skills coupled with Alison Krauss' beautiful voice makes for an incredible song that sends chills down my spine every single time I hear it. "Missing You" is a fun, upbeat song Krauss did with John Waite. It comes to the top as one of my favorites.
My recommendation? Buy this cd! It is so totally worth it!

A hundred miles or more
2009-09-25 - This cd is excellent!! We listen to it every time we go anywhere in our car and we are always cranking it up too!!! It is very motivating and makes you want to get up and dance to some of the songs. It has alot of good jazzy type songs on it and we would recommend it to anyone who wants a very good cd to listen to. My husband didn't know who Allison was til he heard this cd and now he loves her and her songs. If you believe in God, buy the CD!!!!A Hundred Miles or More: A Collection

Expand your Allison collection again!! Great!!
2009-07-08 - Just a great cd! The duets w/ James Taylor,Brad Paisley and John Waite are wonderful! The song about the 2 little boys who wander of is a favorite. Her voice is so moving in this song as well as the duet w/ Brad.

Very Peaceful
2009-06-10 - Love listening to Alison Krauss while on the computor. This has some sad songs that will bring tears to your eyes but it's also beautiful.

Something old, something new, all excellent
2009-06-02 - Alison recorded some tracks specially for this album, while other tracks had previously appeared on other people's albums. It provides a great way to round up tracks that fans might otherwise miss out on, but this part-compilation certainly doesn't round up all such tracks. I would have liked Alison's incredible cover of 9 to 5 to be included here. Anybody who wishes to buy it must but the album for which it was originally recorded (Just because I'm a woman - the songs of Dolly Parton). I'm sure that there are plenty of other tracks that could have been included but weren't. Maybe more of them will be rounded up one day.

Of the previously released tracks, I was already familiar with Down to the river to pray (from the O brother soundtrack), Baby mine (from Best of country sing the best of Disney) and I give you his heart (from the Prince of Egypt Nashville soundtrack). I'd certainly have been familiar with some of the others had I remained gainfully employed and had money to spend. These include Molly Ban (from the Chieftains album, Down the old plank road), How's the world treating you (a duet with James Taylor from Livin', lovin', losin' - songs of the Louvin brothers), Whiskey mountain (a duet with Brad Paisley from his album, Mud on the tires) and the two Cold mountain tacks (Scarlet tide, You will be my ain true love). Of course, there's no knowing exactly which of those albums I would have bought, but I expect I'll buy some of them eventually, especially as I have this album to remind me that these are desirable albums.

The song that immediately stands out is Sawing on the strings, if only because it is the only up-tempo track It's brilliant and it would be nice to see Alison do more such tracks, but she loves those ballads that make up the rest of the album, including the two covers of Don Williams songs that bookend the album. You're just a country boy (the opener) is a gender-adaptation of I'm just a country boy. Lay down beside me (the closer) actually appeared first on a Kenny Rogers album on his eponymous 1977 album featuring Lucille. Don's own version didn't appear on album until 1978, when it was included on his Expressions album. Here, Alison sings it as a duet with John Waite. He is famous for Missing you, a song that he and Alison also recorded as a duet for this album.

There is plenty of great music here, although a little more variation in tempo might have made it even better.