Home-cooked food and {\bluegrass} -- in this case {$Alison Krauss and Union Station} and Cracker Barrel -- are served up simultaneously on {^Home on the Highways: Band Picked Favorites}. The blue-collar freeway eatery has teemed with {@Rounder Records} to provide this 12-track advertisement for "beef tips and country vegetables" that is -- according to the liner notes -- "as pleasing and as enjoyable as anything you'd find at any Cracker Barrel Old Country Store." This however is a matter of taste, as {$Krauss} and company seem reluctant to revisit anything that doesn't appear on {^Lonely Runs Both Ways}, {^New Favorite}, or {^Forget About It}. While good enough, {^Home on the Highways} is the musical equivalent of a pot roast, wholly predictable and occasionally comforting. ~ James Christopher Monger, All Music Guide