“Lost in the Lonesome Pines” gave its name to a 2002 album by Jim Lauderdale with Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mountain Boys. The album, on which Lauderdale wrote or co-wrote nearly every song, won the Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album.
The song carries the dark, mournful feeling that runs through the Stanley tradition. The lonesome pines stand for a wild, sorrowful country — a place, or a state of mind, in which the singer has lost his way.
The album paired Lauderdale’s songwriting with the classic bluegrass sound of Ralph Stanley’s band.
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