Ghost in This House

Hugh Prestwood wrote "Ghost in This House". It was first recorded by Shenandoah and released in September 1990 as the second single from the album Extra Mile on Columbia, produced by Robert Byrne and Rick Hall, 3:36, with "She's Still Here" on the B-side; it reached number 5 on Billboard's Hot Country Songs in December 1990 and number 2 in Canada. Its video, directed by Marcus Penczner, shows only the singer Marty Raybon. Prestwood has said the idea came from The Grapes of Wrath, that he first had Michael Johnson in mind to record it, and that he liked Shenandoah's version but wished it were less produced, which led him to Krauss; he describes her take as much darker and haunting. He is a slow writer, about a song a month, who never lived in Nashville.

Krauss recorded it for her solo album Forget About It (Rounder, August 3, 1999), where it is track seven at 4:04, from sessions in 1999 at Emerald Sound Studios and Seventeen Grand Recording in Nashville, produced by Alison Krauss and Union Station. It was not a single. The live version, on disc one of Alison Krauss + Union Station Live (2002), runs 4:29, or 4:30 on MusicBrainz.

Our upload is titled "Alison Krauss & Union Station - Broadway - Ghost In This House" on a fan's channel; the two songs are consecutive tracks on the live album's first disc, so we infer it is a clip from the 2002 Louisville Palace concert, which the page does not confirm. MusicBrainz also lists live recordings at Vienna, Virginia in 1998, at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival on June 24, 2007 and at the Mermaid Theatre in London on May 11, 2011. Kelsea Ballerini sang it at the Grand Ole Opry in 2016 and Lauren Duski on The Voice on May 15, 2017. We found no setlist.fm count.