If We Ever Make It Home Explained
| If We Ever Make It Home |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Wade Bowen |
| Cover: | wbiwemih.jpg |
| Released: | September 30, 2008 |
| Genre: | Red Dirt, Texas Country |
| Label: | Sustain Records |
| Producer: | J.R. Rodriguez |
| Prev Title: | Lost Hotel |
| Prev Year: | 2006 |
| Next Title: | Live at Billy Bob's Texas |
| Next Year: | 2010 |
If We Ever Make It Home is Wade Bowen's third studio album. It was released in the fall of 2008. The album captures the emotion Bowen's wife's battle with post-partum depression.[1] The song "Daddy and the Devil" features the vocals of singer/songwriter Chris Knight. The album's second single, "Trouble," is the second of Bowen's songs to have a music video, which was directed by Evan Kaufmann.[2]
Track listing
- "You Had Me At My Best" (Wade Bowen, Jedd Hughes) – 4:17
- "If We Ever Make It Home" (Bowen, Jim Beavers) – 4:08
- "Turn On The Lights" (Bowen, Stephony Smith) – 3:51
- "Ghost In This Town" (Bowen, Michael Cox) – 3:56
- "Why Makes Perfect Sense" (Bowen, Randy Rogers) – 5:15
- "Trouble" (Bowen, Clint Ingersoll) – 4:01
- "Nobody's Fool" (Bowen, Rogers) – 3:36
- "Into The Arms Of You" (Sean McConnell) – 4:18
- "From Bad To Good" (Bowen, Radney Foster) – 4:01
- "Missing You" (Matt Powell) – 3:38
- "Daddy And The Devil" (ft. Chris Knight) (Chuck Cannon, Chuck Jones, Tom Bukovac) – 3:44
- "Somewhere Beautiful" (McConnell) – 5:04
Personnel
- Drums – Shawn Fitcher
- Bass guitar – David Santos
- Electric guitar – David Grissom, Jedd Hughes, Tom Bukovac, Kenny Greenberg, Greg V.
- Acoustic guitar – Ilya Toshinsky, Jedd Hughes, Tom Bukovac, Greg V.
- Steel guitar, lap steel guitar – Dan Dugmore
- Mandolin – Aubrey Haynie
- Percussion – Eric Darken
- Keyboards – Charlie Judge, Tim Lauer, J.R. Rodriguez
- Piano, accordion, B3 organ – Charlie Judge
- Pump organ – Tim Lauer
- Lead vocals – Wade Bowen
- Background vocals – Jedd Hughes, Emily Francis, Sonya Isaacs, Ashley Monroe, Melodie Crittenden, Wes Hightower, Russell Terrell, J.R. Rodriguez
- Guest vocals – Chris Knight on "Daddy and the Devil"
Chart performance
| Chart (2008) | Peak
position |
|---|
| U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums | 29 |
| U.S. Billboard 200 | 176 |
| U.S. Billboard Top Heatseekers | 2 | |
Notes and References
- News: If We Ever Make It Home on Roughstock.com . 2009-10-28 . https://web.archive.org/web/20081202075600/http://www.roughstock.com/reviews/wade-bowen-if-we-ever-make-it-home . 2008-12-02 . dead .
- News: Trouble Music Video . https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211220/CAJo34pPTO0 . 2021-12-20 . live.
