Ghost in This House

Hugh Prestwood, a slow writer who finished about a song a month and never lived in Nashville, took the idea from The Grapes of Wrath, where Muley calls himself an old graveyard ghost. Shenandoah released it as a single in 1990 and took it to number 5 on the country chart and number 2 in Canada.

Krauss cut it for Forget About It in 1999 with Barry Bales, Ron Block, Dan Tyminski, Jerry Douglas and Matt Rollings on piano, and no drums, with Gary Paczosa engineering. It was never a single. Country Universe found her version much darker than the radio hit, and Prestwood said each was right for what it was. Holler argued that in other hands it could seem cheesy and overblown, but not in hers.

Live

It became one of the songs she plays most: setlist.fm logs 122 performances by Alison Krauss and Union Station, the band's fourth most played song, and 70 more under her own name. A live version, with her spoken introduction, is on Live (2002), recorded at the Louisville Palace. Kelsea Ballerini sang it at the Grand Ole Opry in 2016, and Matt Koziol released it with Vince Gill in 2023.