Somewhere Far Away, the Silver Anniversary release from Blue Highway takes the road less traveled. The dozen new songs come from some of the finest songwriters in bluegrass, three of whom happen to be founding members - Tim Stafford, Wayne Taylor and Shawn Lane. The opening track by two-time IBMA Songwriter of the Year (2014, 2017) Stafford and frequent collaborator Steve Gulley is about a dying convict dreaming of wide-open spaces, where he can see "Both Ends Of The Train." There's also the wannabe wanderer of the title track "Somewhere Far Away," the Old West outlaw on the run in "Cochise County," and the pioneer family heading to "A Place I've Never Seen." Those classic Western tales, a Blue Highway signature, are echoed by Roger Mason's album art. Of course, in bluegrass, songs that aren't about leaving home are usually about missing it, as in Tim and Bobby Starnes' wistful, "In Texas Tonight" (sweetened by twin fiddles) and Shawn Lane's poignant "Dear Kentucky."