On Your Way Home

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On Your Way Home
Studio album by Patty Loveless
Released	September 16, 2003
Genre	Country
Label	Epic
Producer	Emory Gordy, Jr.
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link
Patty Loveless chronology
Bluegrass & White Snow (2002) On Your Way Home (2003) The Definitive Collection (2005)

On Your Way Home is the thirteenth album of original recordings by Patty Loveless.

[edit] Overview

Recorded in April and May of 2003, the album was released in September. It first charted on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart on October 4th (peaking at #7), and remained on the charts for 33 weeks until May 20th, 2004.^[1]

The CD also included a bonus DVD which had footage from Loveless' 2001 Austin City Limits appearance with performances of "Here I Am", from her "When Fallen Angels Fly" album; "Pretty Little Miss" and "You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive", both from her "Mountain Soul" album. It also has the video for "Lovin' All Night" along with a photo gallery of publicity photos and the credits.

[edit] Track listing

1. "Draggin' My Heart Around" (Paul Kennerley, Marty Stuart) – 3:26
2. "Nothin' Like the Lonely" (Scott Parker, Craig Fuller, Caryl Mack Parker) – 3:29
3. "I Wanna Believe" (Al Anderson, Gary Nicholson, Jessi Alexander) – 3:56
4. "On Your Way Home" (Ronnie Samoset, Matraca Berg) – 3:39
5. "I Don't Wanna Be That Strong" (Tim Mensy, Tony Haselden) – 3:37
6. "Born-Again Fool" (Roger Brown) – 4:48
7. "Looking for a Heartache Like You" (Jim Lauderdale, Buddy Miller, Julie Miller) – 3:11
8. "Higher Than the Wall" (Michael Henderson, Chris Stapleton) – 3:22
9. "Lovin' All Night" (Rodney Crowell) – 3:38
10. "Last in a Long Lonesome Line" (Bob DiPiero, Al Anderson, Jeffrey Steele) – 3:42
11. "The Grandpa That I Know" (Mensy, Shawn Camp) – 5:19

[edit] Background Notes

^[2] Loveless said that she expressly sought "adult" songs for this album that would "appeal to young people but at the same time have substance lyrically".

Video Frame from the "On Your Way Home" music video. The song charted for 16 weeks on the Billboard Hot Country Singles and Tracks chart, reaching #29 during the week of 7 February 2004.

CD-Single cover of "I Wanna Believe", released February 3, 2004. The single peaked at #60 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart on May 8th.

The top twenty single, Lovin' All Night was previously recorded by Rodney Crowell, whose version was a Top 10 country hit in 1990. According to Loveless "...On the Down From The Mountain tour last year (2002), a friend of mine, Rodney Crowell was out there with me. Rodney was hosting the show, and he would perform it. We were having the best time of our lives out there, and we were in Roanoke, Virginia and he asked me to come out and perform with him, and I couldn't refuse him. Later, when I was in the process of reviewing material for the new album, I remembered the night in Roanoke and I asked my producer if we could contract Rodney and include the song on the album. So, that's how it came about how I recorded "Lovin All Night".^[3]

The Grandpa That I Know was also recorded by Joe Diffie on his 2001 album In Another World. According to Loveless, "...I had first heart this song when Emory had produced it before and I really loved the song, I think I understand even more when Emory brought it back around to my attention. It's a relationship about a grandson and his grandfather, but I really feel strongly that why Emory brought it to my attention is because he always had a love for this song and had a real love for his grandpa, his grandfather cochran, his "pappa cochran". To hear stories from Emory, and the memories all came back for me as I sang the song, and I tried to perform it for him because I knew Emory was listening and recalling all of his wonderful memories of his grandfather..."

Born Again Fool is a turnaround from the majority of the "he did me wrong" songs. It is a "she did me wrong song. The slow tempo is a background for the sad story of a man who gave all he had. She took it all and gave nothing back. Everything he did was not enough to make her stay.

I Wanna Believe is about a woman admitting to herself that she knows he isn't all he says he is. He is smooth, but the woman's intuition is turned on in full force. It has a toe-tapping tempo to go with the lyrics.

Draggin' My Heart Around is an uptempo song about a woman who sticks with her man. He promises to love her and never leave her lonesome, but that isn't what happens. According to Loveless, "...When it first came to me, the demo I heard of it was by Travis Tritt. I kind of thought Travis wrote it but then when I was ready to go in and cut the song, I noticed it was by Paul Kennerly and Marty Stuart that penned this. That made it even that more appealing, because I love the way these guys create, I really do. At first when I was in the studio working on this record, we were leaning it towards honky tonk in a way, and this song has that really cool honky tonk feel to it. It was perfect I think for the record."

Higher Than the Wall is a song of love gone wrong, which Loveless tells a story of a woman who built her wall so high that she didn't think anything could climb it to get inside. He came, climbed the wall and gave her his love.

Nothing Like The Lonley, according to Loveless, "...I open my shows with this, and I’m sure it's taking a chance with opening a song that's brand-new, but it's very cool that we open it up with this with the fiddles and the humming at the beginning. It's got a great mountain feel to it and I just thought it would be a great opener. This song gave me a great opportunity to have banjos and lots of fiddles and that's how we heard the demo, and that's how we went in and cut it."

[edit] References

• On Your Way Home Music Video at YouTube
• On Your Way Home Live Performance at YouTube
• Nothing Like The Lonley Live Performance at YouTube
• The Grandpa That I Know Live Performance at YouTube
• "I Wanna Believe" from the "On Your Way Home World Album Radio Premiere Radio Special", September 2003 (Audio Only)