Paper Airplane

Mike Shipley engineered and mixed it. Krauss had persuaded him to return to engineering after ten years away, and he later tied the long production to her migraines. Two of the eleven songs are covers, Jackson Browne's My Opening Farewell and Richard Thompson's Dimming of the Day. The rest come from writers including Peter Rowan, Aoife O'Donovan, Tim O'Brien, Jeremy Lister, Sidney Cox and Castleman, who wrote the title song, while Barry Bales co-wrote Miles to Go with Chris Stapleton and Lori McKenna co-wrote My Love Follows You Where You Go.

It sold about 83,000 copies in its first week and opened at number 3 on the Billboard 200, her highest US placing. It was her first number one on the country albums chart, and it also topped the bluegrass and folk charts. It reached number 11 in the UK, her best showing there, and won Grammys for Best Bluegrass Album and Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical. Thom Jurek of AllMusic called it "polished yet authentic". Neil Spencer in The Observer called the picking "exemplary" but the material routine.