Way Back Home

Infobox Album
Name = Way Back Home
Type = Album
Artist = Phil Keaggy


Released = 1986
Recorded = Weddington Studio North Hollywood, California Whitefield Studios Santa Ana, California Salt Mine Studios Nashville, Tennessee The Dugout Nashville, Tennessee
Length = 60:34
Label = Pan Pacific Records
Producer = Phil Keaggy
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:0ifpxqrhldae link]
Last album = Getting Closer (1986)
This album = "Way Back Home" (1987)
Next album = "The Wind and the Wheat" (1987)

Infobox Album
Name = Way Back Home (reissue)
Type = Album
Artist = Phil Keaggy
Label = Sparrow Records
Released = (re-released 1994)
Last album = Blue (1994)
This album = "Way Back Home" (reissue) (1994)
Next album = "Acoustic Sketches" (1995)

"Way Back Home" is the title of an album by guitarist Phil Keaggy, released in 1986, on Pan Pacific Records. The album was drastically reworked and re-released in 1994 on Sparrow Records.

Track listing

All songs were written by Phil Keaggy, unless otherwise noted.

1986 Version

# "Way Back Home"
# "Here And Now"
# "A New Star"
# "Maker Of The Universe"
# "Once I Prayed"
# "Let Everything Else Go" (different than the previously released version on "Town To Town")
# "Noah's Song"
# "The Reunion" (Also released on "The Wind and the Wheat")
# "Olivia"
# "Be In Time"
# "In Every Need"

1994 Version

# "Way Back Home" – 4:19
# "A New Star" – 3:35
# "Father-Daughter Harmony" (Alicia & Phil Keaggy) – 4:25
# "It Could Have Been Me" (Music by Keaggy, Words by Sheila Walsh) – 5:11
# "In Every Need" (Music by Keaggy, Words Samuel Longfellow & Anonymous) – 4:57
# "She's A Dancer" – 2:59
# "Let Everything Else Go" – 4:54
# "Olivia" – 3:26
# "Once I Prayed" (Music by Keaggy, Words by Helen McDowell) – 3:14
# "Noah's Song" – 4:01
# "Maker Of The Universe" (Music by Keaggy, Words by F. W. Pitt) – 3:11
# "Be In Time" (Music by Keaggy, Words by Anonymous & Keaggy) – 4:23
# "Here And Now" – 2:40
# "The 50th" (Music arranged & adapted by Keaggy) – 9:19

NOTE: Several songs are modified versions of the original 1986 tracks.

Personnel

*Phil Keaggy: Guitars, vocals, electric bass, recorders
*Alex Acuña: Drums
*Ken Lewis: Drums, percussion
*Brad Dutz: Percussion.
*David Stone: String bass.
*Jim Isaacs: Oboe, English horn.
*Jon Clarke: Clarinet, soprano sax, oboe.
*Blair Masters: Keyboards.
*Alicia Keaggy: Vocals.
*Olivia Keaggy: Additional Harmony.
*Danny O'Lannerghty: String bass.
*Allan Bradley: Piano.
*Ian McKinnell: Cello.
*John Walls Strings and Woodwinds arrange by Tom Howard.
*String Section: Pavel Farkus, Gail Cruz, R. F. Peterson, Ken Burwood-Hoy.

Production notes

*Produced and Arranged by Phil Keaggy.
*Recorded at Weddington Studio, North Hollywood, California; Whitefield Studios, Santa Ana, California; Salt Mine Studios, Nashville, Tennessee; The Dugout, Nashville, Tennessee.
*Original trackes engineered by: Bob Cotton, Peter Hayden, Thom Roy and Eddie Keaggy.
*Remixed and engineered by: The Incredible Russ Long.
*Second Engineer: Martin Woodlee.
*Mastered by: ken Love at Mastermix.
*Art direction: Karen Philpott.
*Design: Sara Remke.
*Photography: Ben Pearson.