Keys to the Highway

Keys to the Highway
Studio album by Rodney Crowell
Released	October 10, 1989
Genre	Country
Length	43:12
Label	Columbia
Producer	Crowell Tony Brown
Rodney Crowell chronology
The Rodney Crowell Collection (1989)The Rodney Crowell Collection1989 Keys to the Highway (1989) Life Is Messy (1992)Life Is Messy1992

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Keys to the Highway is the sixth studio album by country music artist Rodney Crowell, released in 1989 by Columbia Records (see 1989 in country music). It peaked at number 15 on the Top Country Albums chart. The songs, "Many a Long and Lonesome Highway", "If Looks Could Kill", "My Past Is Present", "Now That We're Alone" and "Things I Wish I'd Said" were released as singles. The last single failed to reach the top 40.

Track listing

All songs written By Rodney Crowell except when noted

1. "My Past Is Present" (Crowell, Steuart Smith) - 2:49
2. "If Looks Could Kill" - 3:25
3. "Soul Searchin'" - 3:57
4. "Many a Long and Lonesome Highway" (Crowell, Will Jennings) - 4:16
5. "We Gotta Go on Meeting Like This" (Crowell, Larry Willoughby) - 2:54
6. "Faith Is Mine" - 4:29
7. "Tell Me the Truth" (Crowell, Jim Hanson, Vince Santoro, Smith) - 3:35
8. "Don't Let Your Feet Slow You Down" - 3:18
9. "Now That We're Alone" - 4:14
10. "Things I Wish I'd Said" - 4:08
11. "I Guess We've Been Together for Too Long" (Guy Clark, Crowell) - 2:46
12. "You Been on My Mind" - 3:28

Personnel

Musicians

The Dixie Pearls

• Eddie Bayers - drums
• Barry Beckett - piano, organ
• Rodney Crowell - vocals, acoustic guitar
• Hank DeVito - steel guitar, acoustic guitar
• Paul Franklin - steel guitar
• Jim Hanson - bass guitar, background vocals
• Michael Rhodes - bass guitar
• Vince Santoro - drums, background vocals
• Steuart Smith - lead guitar, acoustic guitar

Guest musicians

• Rosanne Cash - background vocals
• Ashley Cleveland - background vocals
• Vince Gill - background vocals
• Mark O'Connor - fiddle, mandolin
• Harry Stinson - background vocals

Technical

• Tony Brown - production
• Donivan Coward - overdubbing
• Rodney Crowell - production, arrangement
• The Dixie Pearls - arrangement
• John Guess - mixing
• Glen Hardin - orchestra arrangement, conduction
• Steve Marcantonio - engineering, mixing
• Glenn Meadows - mastering
• Steuart Smith - arrangement

Chart performance

Album

Chart (1989)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums	15
U.S. Billboard 200	180

Singles

Year	Single	Peak positions
		US Country	CAN Country
1989	"Many a Long and Lonesome Highway"	3	1
1990	"If Looks Could Kill"	6	4
	"My Past Is Present"	22	12
	"'Now That We're Alone"	17	13
1991	"Things I Wish I'd Said"	72	—