On Your Way Home

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On Your Way Home is the thirteenth album of original recordings by Patty Lovele. Released in 2003 on Epic Record, the album produced only one Top 20 country single: the track "Lovin' All Night", a cover of a Rodney Crowell song from 1990. This was also her next-to-last mainstream album for Epic. Recorded in April and May 2003, the album was released in September. It first charted on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart on October 4th (peaking at #7), and remained on the charts for 33 weeks until May 20, 2004. The CD also included a bonus DVD which had footage from Loveless' 2001 Austin City Limits appearance with performances of "Here I Am", from her When Fallen Angels Fly album; "Pretty Little Miss" and "You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive", both from her Mountain Soul album. It also has the video for "Lovin' All Night" along with a photo gallery of publicity photos and the credit. Track listing 1. "Draggin' My Heart Around" (Paul Kennerley, Marty Stuart) – 3:26 2. "Nothin' Like the Lonely" (Scott Parker, Craig Fuller, Caryl Mack Parker) – 3:29 3. "I Wanna Believe" (Al Anderson, Gary Nicholson, Jessi Alexander) – 3:56 4. "On Your Way Home" (Ronnie Samoset, Matraca Berg) – 3:39 5. "I Don't Wanna Be That Strong" (Tim Mensy, Tony Haselden) – 3:37 6. "Born-Again Fool" (Roger Brown) – 4:48 7. "Looking for a Heartache Like You" (Jim Lauderdale, Buddy Miller, Julie Miller) – 3:11 8. "Higher Than the Wall" (Michael Henderson, Chris Stapleton) – 3:22 9. "Lovin' All Night" (Rodney Crowell) – 3:38 10. "Last in a Long Lonesome Line" (Bob DiPiero, Al Anderson, Jeffrey Steele) – 3:42 11. "The Grandpa That I Know" (Mensy, Shawn Camp) – 5:19 Notes Loveless said that she expressly sought "adult" songs for this album that would "appeal to young people but at the same time have substance lyrically". According to Loveless "...On the Down From The Mountain tour last year (2002), a friend of mine, Rodney Crowell was out there with me. Rodney was hosting the show, and he would perform it. We were having the best time of our lives out there, and we were in Roanoke, Virginia and he asked me to come out and perform with him, and I couldn't refuse him. Later, when I was in the process of reviewing material for the new album, I remembered the night in Roanoke and I asked my producer if we could contract Rodney and include the song on the album. So, that's how it came about how I recorded "Lovin All Night". The Grandpa That I Know was also recorded by Joe Diffie on his 2001 album In Another World, and before that by Tim Mensy, its cowriter, on his 1992 album This Ol' Heart. According to Lovele, "...I had first heard this song when Emory had produced it before and I really loved the song, I think I understand even more when Emory brought it back around to my attention. It's a relationship about a grandson and his grandfather, but I really feel strongly that why Emory brought it to my attention is because he always had a love for this song and had a real love for his grandpa, his grandfather cochran, his "pappa cochran". To hear stories from Emory, and the memories all came back for me as I sang the song, and I tried to perform it for him because I knew Emory was listening and recalling all of his wonderful memories of his grandfather..." Born Again Fool is a turnaround from the majority of the "he did me wrong" song. It is a "she did me wrong song. The slow tempo is a background for the sad story of a man who gave all he had. She took it all and gave nothing back. Everything he did was not enough to make her stay. I Wanna Believe is about a woman admitting to herself that she knows he isn't all he says he i. He is smooth, but the woman's intuition is turned on in full force. It has a toe-tapping tempo to go with the lyric. Draggin' My Heart Around is an uptempo song about a woman who sticks with her man. He promises to love her and never leave her lonesome, but that isn't what happen. According to Lovele, "...When it first came to me, the demo I heard of it was by Travis Tritt. I kind of thought Travis wrote it but then when I was ready to go in and cut the song, I noticed it was by Paul Kennerly and Marty Stuart that penned thi. That made it even that more appealing, because I love the way these guys create, I really do. At first when I was in the studio working on this record, we were leaning it towards honky tonk in a way, and this song has that really cool honky tonk feel to it. It was perfect I think for the record." Higher Than the Wall is a song of love gone wrong, which Loveless tells a story of a woman who built her wall so high that she didn't think anything could climb it to get inside. He came, climbed the wall and gave her his love. Nothing Like The Lonley, according to Lovele, "...I open my shows with thi, and I’m sure it's taking a chance with opening a song that's brand-new, but it's very cool that we open it up with this with the fiddles and the humming at the beginning. It's got a great mountain feel to it and I just thought it would be a great opener. This song gave me a great opportunity to have banjos and lots of fiddles and that's how we heard the demo, and that's how we went in and cut it." .

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