Somewhere Down the Road (album) explained
| Somewhere Down the Road |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Amy Grant |
| Cover: | Amy Grant - Somewhere Down the Road album.jpg |
| Released: | March 30, 2010 |
| Genre: | Gospel, contemporary Christian music |
| Label: | EMI CMG/Sparrow |
| Producer: | Brown Bannister, Mike Brignardello, Ian Fitchuk, Vince Gill, Amy Grant, Wayne Kirkpatrick, Justin Loucks, Greg Morrow, Dan Muckala |
| Prev Title: | The Christmas Collection |
| Prev Year: | 2008 |
| Next Title: | How Mercy Looks from Here |
| Next Year: | 2013 |
Somewhere Down the Road is the seventeenth studio album by Christian music and pop music singer-songwriter Amy Grant, released in 2010. It is a unique album featuring eight new songs, a new recording of the song "Arms of Love", from her 1982 album Age to Age, and rounded out with three of Grant's previously released story-songs.
The album title is taken from the title track, "Somewhere Down the Road" also a promotional single from Grant's 1997 album Behind the Eyes. The song was originally also featured on the first and only commercial single from Behind the Eyes, "Takes a Little Time". The painting featured on the cover of the album includes a painting by Grant, with the inscription Somewhere Down the Road. Grant gave the original painting as a gift to her friend and publicist Jennifer Cooke.[1]
Most of the new songs on the album were recorded in the new studio that Grant and her husband Vince Gill recently had built into their home.[2] One of the songs on the album, "Overnight", is a duet recorded with Sarah Chapman, Grant's daughter. Grant wrote "Unafraid" about her mother.[3]
Roughly one year after the original release of the album a digital-only expanded edition of the album was released with additional material. The expanded edition includes the video for "Better Than a Hallelujah", the first single from the album, as well as an Ambient Mix of the song. Also included on the expanded edition is a cover of the Pete Seeger song "Turn, Turn, Turn" and two remixes of the song "Overnight" (the Aircandy Mix and the Dyna Mix).
Personnel
- Amy Grant – lead vocals, backing vocals (1), acoustic guitar (9, 10)
- Dan Muckala – track programming (1, 2), arrangements (1, 2)
- Tim Lauer – Wurlitzer keyboard (3), keyboards (6)
- Carl Marsh – Fairlight euphonium (3), string arrangements (12)
- Ian Fitchuk – keyboards (5), acoustic piano (5), acoustic guitar (5), bass (5, 8), drums (5, 8), Rhodes piano (8), percussion (8)
- Matt Rollings – acoustic piano (7)
- Phil Madeira – Hammond B3 organ (7)
- Greg Morrow – acoustic piano (9), drums (9), percussion (9)
- Ben Strano – Hammond B3 organ (9)
- John Hobbs – acoustic piano (11), organ (11)
- Pete Wasner – keyboards (11)
- Bernie Herms – acoustic piano (12)
- Tim Akers – Hammond B3 organ (12)
- Adam Lester – acoustic guitar (1, 2), electric guitar (1, 2)
- Gordon Kennedy – electric guitar (3, 6, 7)
- Wayne Kirkpatrick – acoustic guitar (3, 6, 7), hi-string guitar (3), hammered dulcimer (3), backing vocals (3), harmonica (6)
- Jerry McPherson – electric guitars (3), keyboard bassoon (3)
- Greg Leisz – pedal steel guitar (3)
- Brent Mason – guitars (4)
- Justin Loucks – electric guitars (5), drums (5, 8), percussion (8)
- Kenny Greenberg – electric guitar (6)
- Calvin Turner – guitar (8)
- John Jorgenson – guitars (9)
- Billy Panda – acoustic guitar (9), octave mandolin (9)
- Tom Hemby – guitar (11)
- Rivers Rutherford – acoustic guitar (12)
- Chuck Butler – bass (2)
- Jimmie Lee Sloas – bass (3, 6)
- Jackie Street – bass (7)
- Mike Brignardello – bass (9)
- David Hungate – bass (11)
- Michael Rhodes – bass (12)
- John Hammond – drums (3)
- Chris McHugh – drums (6, 7)
- Chad Cromwell – drums (11)
- Dan Needham – drums (12)
- Sam Bacco – percussion (3, 6)
- Chris Carmichael – string arrangements and performance (4)
- The London Session Orchestra – strings (12)
- Sarah Chapman – lead vocals (2)
- Gail Mayes – backing vocals (4)
- Angela Primm – backing vocals (4)
- Jenny Gill – backing vocals (5, 11)
- Peter Groenwalk – backing vocals (5)
- Jeremy Lister – backing vocals (5)
- Leigh Nash – backing vocals (5)
- Mindy Smith – backing vocals (5)
- Michael Mellett – backing vocals (6)
- Chris Rodriguez – backing vocals (6, 7)
- Micah Wilshire – backing vocals (6)
- Billy Gaines – backing vocals (7)
- Donna McElroy – backing vocals (7)
- Perry Coleman – backing vocals (9)
- Vince Gill – backing vocals (11), electric guitar (12), harmony vocal (12)
Production
- Amy Grant – executive producer, cover painting, liner notes, producer (4, 9)
- Jennifer Cooke – executive producer
- Bryan Ward – executive producer
- Dan Muckala – producer (1, 2), engineer (1, 2), mixing (1, 2)
- Wayne Kirkpatrick – producer (3, 6, 7, 10)
- Mike Brignardello – producer (4, 9)
- Greg Morrow – producer (4, 9)
- Ian Fitchuk – producer (5, 8)
- Justin Loucks – producer (5, 8), engineer (5, 8), mixing (5, 8)
- Vince Gill – producer (11)
- Brown Bannister – producer (12)
- Drew Bollman – engineer (1, 11)
- Dan Marnien – engineer (3, 6, 7), mixing (3, 6, 7)
- Ben Strano – engineer (4, 9)
- Dan Deurloo – assistant engineer (1, 2)
- Jed Hackett – additional engineer (4), digital editing (4)
- Scott Velazco – assistant engineer (9)
- Steve Blackman – second engineer (11)
- Russ Long – mixing (4)
- John Hardy – mixing (9)
- David Schober – mixing (11)
- Bob Ludwig – mastering at Gateway Mastering (Portland, Maine)
- Jamie Lynne Neeck – A&R administration
- Jan Cook – art direction
- Beth Mathews – art direction
- Alexis Goodman – package design
- Kristin Barlowe – back cover photography
Charts
Weekly charts
| Year | Chart | Position |
|---|
| 2010 | The Billboard 200 | 41 |
| Top Christian Albums | 2 |
| Top Digital Albums | 19 | |
Year-end charts
References
- http://174.132.190.59/~amygrant/new_community/showthread.php?t=1440&highlight=painting
- News: Amy Grant releases first new songs since 2003 . Reuters . March 27, 2010.
- Web site: Come Into the World . Songfacts.com . 2010-04-06.
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