A Long Way Home

by Dwight Yoakam

A Long Way Home cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 9 June 1998
  • Label: Reprise Records
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 41:53
  • Community rating: 3.43/5 from 1 rating

Album Notes & Community Reviews

'A Long Way Home' is a Dwight Yoakam album in his neo traditionalist country style, rooted in the Bakersfield sound of Buck Owens. Twanging guitars, fiddle and honky tonk rhythms frame songs of longing and distance.

Genres

Descriptors: acoustic, storytelling, ballad, traditional, personal

Tracklist

  1. Same Fool (3:03)
  2. The Curse (2:33)
  3. Things Change (3:45)
  4. Yet To Succeed (3:19)
  5. I Wouldn't Put It Past Me (2:38)
  6. These Arms (3:31)
  7. That's Okay (2:26)
  8. Only Want You More (3:22)
  9. I'll Just Take These (2:49)
  10. A Long Way Home (2:55)
  11. Listen (3:47)
  12. Traveler's Lantern (3:25)
  13. Maybe You Like It, Maybe You Don't (4:20)

Credits

  • Jimmy Boyd - arranged by [strings]
  • Beth Andersen - backing vocals, harmony vocals
  • Bonnie Sheridan - backing vocals, harmony vocals
  • Carl Jackson - backing vocals, harmony vocals
  • Jim Lauderdale - backing vocals, harmony vocals
  • Ralph Stanley - backing vocals, harmony vocals, banjo
  • Tommy Funderburk - backing vocals, harmony vocals
  • Murray Adler - conductor [strings]

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