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List Price: $17.98 | | Label: Rounder / Umgd
Salesrank: 4662
Released: February 14, 1992 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Two Highways Track Listing:
1. Two Highways - Alison Krauss, Cordle, Larry
2. I'm Alone Again - Alison Krauss, Rakestraw, Todd
3. Wild Bill Jones - Alison Krauss, Traditional
4. Beaumont Rag - Alison Krauss, Traditional
5. Heaven's Bright Shore - Alison Krauss, Stanley, Ralph
6. Love You in Vain - Alison Krauss, Pennell, John
7. Here Comes Goodbye - Alison Krauss, Pennell, John
8. As Lovely as You - Alison Krauss, Pennell, John
9. Windy City Rag - Alison Krauss, Baker, Kenny
10. Lord Don't Forsake Me - Alison Krauss, Rakestraw, Todd
11. Teardrops Will Kiss the Morning Dew - Alison Krauss, Craft, Paul
12. Midnight Rider - Alison Krauss, Allman, Gregg
Editorial Review:
Alison Krauss's second Rounder effort builds on the promise of her debut, further honing her blend of traditional and contemporary, an artistic tactic that would have a huge impact on bluegrass and bluegrass audiences throughout the 1990s. Still only 17 when she waxed this one, Krauss handles old-time rags, gospel favorites, and modern country with equal flair and almost-annoying perfection. This was 1989 and her widespread critical acclaim had not yet translated into commercial acceptance, but Two Highways catches her at a time just before the polish began to sand away the rougher edges of her sound. Rough, however, is a relative term because, then as now, it's impossible for this phenom to ever sound anything but smooth. --Marc Greilsamer
Two Highways Reviews:
One of the great bluegrass albums 
2007-07-31 - Although noone remains from this version of Union Station, this CD contains some fantastic stuff!! I agree with many folks here that Alison's recent recordings are overproduced with "softening" of the vocals. But this early effort was very strong in every respect. Get it.
Along the Road to Fame
2006-09-10 - I was lucky enough to see this young lady (and young she was!) on tour twice when this album had just come out, at the Kalamazoo State Theater along with Hot Rize!, another good old fashioned bluegrass treat. These were the days when Krauss was more famous as a fiddle wunderkind than a pop sensation, and when her voice sounded like a young Brenda Lee or Jimmy Martin's kid sister, rather than the limp but no doubt moneymaking dishrag it does today (Krauss's best contribution these days is her production work with new groups like Nickel Creek.)
These songs....none of which were written by Krauss herself, by the way...are fine examples of what in the eighties was termed "newgrass", a bluer than bluegrass, saucy treatment of American string band tradition. The best example might be Union Station's version of (wait for it) the Allman Brothers' "Midnight Rider", which as an Allmans fan I like better than the original. Many of the other songs are written by John Pennell, founder of the band, still a member, and one who can be credited with discovering Krauss' talent as early as five years before this disc was recorded.
The personnel of Union Station has morphed throughout the years, and a few of the songs are led vocally by musicians who are no longer in the band. But most are Krauss' babies, and she shows them off like a proud country mama. If you have never had a chance to hear Alison Krauss during her early years on the road, do check this, her solo album, or both, out. Your heart will leap to the whirlwind melodies, and you will thank yourself, believe me.
not my type 
2006-03-17 - I ordered this for my husband, i am not familiar with the music here; i think i remember my uncle singing some of songs on this album. However, I am impressed that we found it at Amazon, my husband had been looking for a couple of the songs for a long long time.........
unequalled since...
2005-07-01 - This is a great album, really extraordinary. It was my introduction to AK and Union Station, and I have to say that nothing I've heard from them since has lived up to it. It features her fiddle playing as much as her vocals, unlike some later albums, and doesn't have the sickly sweet quality of some later music. One of my top 10 favorite albums ever. Worth it just for Midnight Rider.
In her second album, Alison hits Full Stride
2004-06-25 - Still only 17 in 1989 when this, her second album, was released, Alison Krauss made a mark that has kept her atop the heap in Bluegrass ever since. More of a "band" album than her debut, this one also features guitar phenom Jeff White on lead vocals on a few tunes and the instrumentals are among the best Alison has ever recorded, mainly due to Mr. White's hot flat-picking. Old Beaumont Rag got a good workout here!
The album features both traditional material like "Wild Bill Jones" (sung by Jeff White - now performed exquisitely by Dan Tyminski in Alison's Band), and innovative arrangements of material from other genre's. The Allman Brother's "Midnight Flyer" gets turned from rhythmic yearning ballad into a banjo-driven barn burner, with vocals that soar and harmonies that are absolutely hair-raising.
Alyson's voice is noticeably smoother than in the debut album and I would guess it was about HERE that critics began saying that she had the voice of an angel.
I don't personally know what an angel sounds like, but it would be a HIGH compliment to say one sounded like Alison Krauss on "Two Highways".
