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)