A Long and Winding Road

A Long and Winding Road is Maureen McGovern's twelfth studio album and was released in 2008 by PS Classics. It is a cover album of songs that were from the 1960s and early 1970s, written by notable songwriters of that era. Inside the album cover includes an essay by Philip Himberg (who is the Producing Artistic Director of the Sundance Institute Theatre Program) that covers Maureen McGovern's making of the album and the growth of the Great American Songbook during the 1960s.

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"All I Want/America"	Joni Mitchell/Paul Simon	3:22
2.	"The Times They Are a-Changin'"	Bob Dylan	3:31
3.	"The Circle Game"	Joni Mitchell	5:14
4.	"The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)" (with Jay Leonhart, vocals and bass, arranged by Jay Leonhart)	Paul Simon	1:40
5.	"Cowboy"	Randy Newman	2:23
6.	"The Coming of the Roads"	Billy Edd Wheeler	3:43
7.	"Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?"	Carole King, Gerry Goffin	3:08
8.	"Shed a Little Light/Carry It On"	James Taylor/Gil Turner	4:32
9.	"The Fiddle and the Drum"	Joni Mitchell	3:03
10.	"Fire and Rain"	James Taylor	4:04
11.	"Rocky Raccoon"	John Lennon, Paul McCartney	3:31
12.	"Let It Be"	John Lennon, Paul McCartney	3:15
13.	"By the Time I Get to Phoenix"	Jimmy Webb	2:57
14.	"MacArthur Park"	Jimmy Webb	2:14
15.	"The Moon's a Harsh Mistress"	Jimmy Webb	3:24
16.	"And When I Die"	Laura Nyro	4:06
17.	"Imagine"	John Lennon	3:31
18.	"The Long and Winding Road"	John Lennon, Paul McCartney	1:30

Album credits

Music director/arranger – Jeff Harris
Special guest appearance by – Jay Leonhart
Produced by – Jeffrey Lesser
Co-produced by – Maureen McGovern
Executive producer – Dan Fortune
A&R director – Philip Chaffin

Personnel

Jeff Harris – piano
Jay Leonhart – bass
Lou Marini Jr. – saxophone
Jeffrey Carney – bass on "Circle Game," "Cowboy," and "By the Time I Get to Phoenix"
Joseph Passaro – percussion
Cenovia Cummins – violin
Suzanne Chaplin – violin
Debra Shufelt-Dine – viola
Dorothy Lawson – cello
Recorded at Avatar Studios and Clinton Recording Studios, February 2008^{[citation needed]}
Recorded by: Tom Lazarus
Protools operator: Bart Migal
Assistant engineer: Tim Mitchell
Mixed by: Jeffrey Lesser
Mastered by: Joe Lambert, Trutone Mastering
Art direction & design: John Costa, New Orleans
Photographs by: Deborah Feingold
Additional photos courtesy of: Maureen McGovern

For PS Classics, LLC

Executive producer: Tommy Krasker
A&R direction: Philip Chaffin
Staff engineer: Bart Migal
Editorial coordinator: Clifton Gutesman
Assistant to the producers: Robbie Rozelle