Way Back Home (Phil Keaggy album)
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Released | 1986 | |||
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Length | 45:19 | |||
Label | Pan Pacific | |||
Producer | Phil Keaggy | |||
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Released | 1994 re-released | |||
Length | 60:34 | |||
Label | Sparrow | |||
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Way Back Home is an album by guitarist Phil Keaggy, released in 1986 on Pan Pacific Records. A heavily revised reissue of the album — with a different cover, a different track order, new songs, one original track omitted, and several other tracks remixed or partially rerecorded — was released in 1994 on Sparrow Records.
Track listing
All songs were written by Phil Keaggy, unless otherwise noted.
1986 version
- "Way Back Home" (4:19)
- "Here and Now" (2:44)
- "A New Star" (3:32)
- "Maker of the Universe" (music by Keaggy, words by F. W. Pitt) (3:10)
- "Once I Prayed" (music by Keaggy, words by Helen McDowell) (3:10)
- "Let Everything Else Go" (5:51) (different than the previously released version on Town to Town album)
- "Noah's Song" (4:01)
- "The Reunion"‡ (5:59) (also released, in a nearly identical version, on The Wind and the Wheat album, the following year)
- "Olivia" (3:21)
- "Be in Time" (music by Keaggy, Words by anonymous and Keaggy) (4:18)
- "In Every Need" (music by Keaggy, Words Samuel Longfellow and anonymous) (4:54)
- ‡ - does not appear on 1994 version
1994 version
- "Way Back Home" (4:19)
- "A New Star" (3:35)
- "Father-Daughter Harmony"† (Alicia and Phil Keaggy) (4:25)
- "It Could Have Been Me"† (music by Keaggy, Words by Sheila Walsh) (5:11)
- "In Every Need" (music by Keaggy, words Samuel Longfellow and anonymous) (4:57)
- "She's a Dancer"† (2:59)
- "Let Everything Else Go" (4:54)
- "Olivia" (3:26)
- "Once I Prayed" (music by Keaggy, words by Helen McDowell) (3:14)
- "Noah's Song" (4:01)
- "Maker of the Universe" (music by Keaggy, words by F. W. Pitt) (3:11)
- "Be in Time" (music by Keaggy, words by anonymous and Keaggy) (4:23)
- "Here and Now" (2:40)
- "The 50th"† (music by Keaggy and traditional) (9:19)
- † - new song
Differences in songs between versions
Although most of the songs from the original 1986 version also appear on the 1994 version, several were revised in various ways:
- "Here and Now" – string sounds from the original version were removed for the 1994 version, and the 1994 version is faded slightly early
- "A New Star" – background instrumentation (including woodwinds) is different between the original and 1994 versions
- "Maker of the Universe" – original version has strings and multiple overdubbed vocals; 1994 version has no strings and only one vocal
- "Let Everything Else Go" – 1994 version is faded out about a minute earlier than the original version
- "Noah's Song" – 1994 version has a completely rerecorded lead vocal
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
- Phil Keaggy – producer, arranger at Weddington Studio, North Hollywood, California; Whitefield Studios, Santa Ana California; Salt Mine Studios, Nashville, Tennesse; The Dugout, Nashville, Tennesse
- Bob Cotton – engineer (original tracks)
- Peter Hayden – engineer (original tracks)
- Thom Roy – engineer (original tracks)
- Eddie Keaggy – engineer (original tracks)
- Russ Long – remix, engineer
- Martin Woodlee – second engineer
- Ken Love – mastering at Mastermix
- Karen Philpott – art direction
- Sara Remke – design
- Ben Pearson – photography