Way Back Home (album)

Way Back Home
Studio album by Phil Keaggy
Released	1986
Studio	Weddington Studio North Hollywood, California Whitefield Studios Santa Ana, California Salt Mine Studios Nashville, Tennessee The Dugout Nashville, Tennessee
Length	60:34
Label	Pan Pacific
Producer	Phil Keaggy
Phil Keaggy chronology
Getting Closer! (1985) Way Back Home (1986) The Wind and the Wheat (1987)

Way Back Home (reissue)
Studio album by Phil Keaggy
Released	1994 re-released
Label	Sparrow
Phil Keaggy chronology
Blue (1994) Way Back Home (reissue) (1994) Acoustic Sketches (1995)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]

Way Back Home is an album by guitarist Phil Keaggy, released in 1986 on Pan Pacific Records. A heavily revised, and possibly a completely rerecorded, reissue of the album was released in 1994 on Sparrow Records.

Track listing

All songs were written by Phil Keaggy, unless otherwise noted.

1986 version

1. "Way Back Home" (4:19)
2. "Here and Now" (2:44)
3. "A New Star" (3:32)
4. "Maker of the Universe" (music by Keaggy, words by F. W. Pitt) (3:10)
5. "Once I Prayed" (music by Keaggy, words by Helen McDowell) (3:10)
6. "Let Everything Else Go" (5:51) (different than the previously released version on Town to Town album)
7. "Noah's Song" (4:01)
8. "The Reunion" (5:59) (also released, in a nearly identical version, on The Wind and the Wheat album, the following year)
9. "Olivia" (3:21)
10. "Be in Time" (music by Keaggy, Words by anonymous and Keaggy) (4:18)
11. "In Every Need" (music by Keaggy, Words Samuel Longfellow and anonymous) (4:54)

- does not appear on 1994 version

1994 version

1. "Way Back Home" (4:19)
2. "A New Star" (3:35)
3. "Father-Daughter Harmony" (Alicia and Phil Keaggy) (4:25)
4. "It Could Have Been Me" (music by Keaggy, Words by Sheila Walsh) (5:11)
5. "In Every Need" (music by Keaggy, words Samuel Longfellow and anonymous) (4:57)
6. "She's a Dancer" (2:59)
7. "Let Everything Else Go" (4:54)
8. "Olivia" (3:26)
9. "Once I Prayed" (music by Keaggy, words by Helen McDowell) (3:14)
10. "Noah's Song" (4:01)
11. "Maker of the Universe" (music by Keaggy, words by F. W. Pitt) (3:11)
12. "Be in Time" (music by Keaggy, words by anonymous and Keaggy) (4:23)
13. "Here and Now" (2:40)
14. "The 50th" (music by Keaggy and traditional) (9:19)

- new song

Personnel

• Phil Keaggy: guitars, vocals, electric bass, recorders
• Alex Acuña: drums
• Ken Lewis: drums, percussion
• Brad Dutz: percussion
• David Stone: string bass
• Jim Isaacs: oboe, English horn
• Jon Clarke: clarinet, soprano sax, oboe
• Blair Masters: keyboards
• Alicia Keaggy: vocals
• Olivia Keaggy: additional harmony
• Danny O'Lannerghty: string bass
• Allan Bradley: piano
• Ian McKinnell: cello
• John Walls Strings and Woodwinds arranged by Tom Howard
• String section: Pavel Farkus, Gail Cruz, R. F. Peterson, Ken Burwood-Hoy

Production notes

• Produced and arranged by Phil Keaggy
• Recorded at Weddington Studio, North Hollywood, CA; Whitefield Studios, Santa Ana, CA; Salt Mine Studios, Nashville, TN; The Dugout, Nashville, TN
• Original tracks engineered by: Bob Cotton, Peter Hayden, Thom Roy and Eddie Keaggy
• Remixed and engineered by: The Incredible Russ Long
• Second Engineer: Martin Woodlee
• Mastered by: ken Love at Mastermix
• Art direction: Karen Philpott
• Design: Sara Remke
• Photography: Ben Pearson

References

1. Way Back Home (album) at AllMusic