A Long Way Home

For the book "A Long Way Home" by Saroo Brierley, see Saroo Brierley.
A Long Way Home
Studio album by Dwight Yoakam
Released June 9, 1998
Genre Country
Length 41:51
Label Reprise
Producer Pete Anderson
Dwight Yoakam chronology

Come On Christmas
(1997)
A Long Way Home
(1998)
Last Chance for a Thousand Years: Dwight Yoakam's Greatest Hits from the 90's
(1999)
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A Long Way Home is the tenth album of new recordings by Dwight Yoakam. It reached No. 11 on the Billboard Country Album, with two of its tracks charting on the Hot Country Singles chart. "Things Change" reached No. 17, while "These Arms" peaked at No. 57. Yoakam wrote all the songs on the album himself.

Track listing

All songs written by Dwight Yoakam.

  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

Personnel

Strings conducted by Murray Adler and conducted by Jimmy Boyd.

Chart performance

Album

Chart (1998) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums 11
U.S. Billboard 200 60
Canadian RPM Country Albums 12
Canadian Albums Chart 67

Singles

Year Single Chart positions
US Country US CAN Country
1998 "Things Change" 17 99 23
"These Arms" 57 79
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

References