Where Your Road Leads (song) explained

Where Your Road Leads
Cover:whereyourroadleadssong.jpg
Type:single
Artist:Trisha Yearwood with Garth Brooks
Album:Where Your Road Leads
B-Side:Bring Me All Your Lovin'
Released:September 7, 1998
Genre:Country
Length:3:27
Label:MCA Nashville
Producer:Allen Reynolds
Chronology:Trisha Yearwood
Prev Title:There Goes My Baby
Prev Year:1998
Next Title:Powerful Thing
Next Year:1998

"Where Your Road Leads" is a song written by Victoria Shaw and Desmond Child, and recorded by American country music artists Trisha Yearwood and Garth Brooks. It was released in September 1998 as the second single and title track from Yearwood's album Where Your Road Leads. The song reached #18 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.[1]

Shaw previously recorded the song on her 1995 album In Full View.

Critical reception

Deborah Evans Price, of Billboard magazine reviewed the song favorably, calling it a "gorgeous lyric." She goes on to say that Yearwood's "strong, supple voice beautifully conveys the passionate commitment in the words, and Brooks' warm demeanor provides affecting support." On the production, she says that it at times "comes perilously close to bombast."[2]

Chart performance

"Where Your Road Leads" debuted at number 58 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks for the week of September 19, 1998.

Notes and References

  1. Book: Whitburn, Joel . The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Joel Whitburn . 2004 . Record Research . 403.
  2. Billboard, September 12, 1998: Vol. 110 Iss. 37 - p. 32