If There Was a Way

Infobox Album |
Name = If There Was a Way
Type = Album
Artist = Dwight Yoakam


Released = October 30, 1990
Recorded = Capitol Studios, Hollywood, CA
Genre = Country
Length = 48:13
Label = Reprise
Producer = Pete Anderson
Reviews = * Allmusic Rating|5|5 [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:5rkvikxhbbo9~T1 link]
Last album = "Buenas Noches From a Lonely Room"
(1988)
This album = "If There Was a Way"
(1990)
Next album = "This Time"
(1993)

"If There Was a Way" is the fourth album by Dwight Yoakam. Five of its tracks would rise into the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart in 1991 and 1992. They were "Turn It On, Turn It Up, Turn Me Loose" at #11, "You're the One" at #5, "Nothing's Changed Here" at #15, "It Only Hurts When I Cry" at #7 "Send a Message to My Heart", (a duet with fellow Pikeville, Kentucky native Patty Loveless) at #47, and finally the #18 "The Heart That You Own". The album rose to #7 on the Country Albums chart.

Track listing

All songs written by Dwight Yoakam except where noted.
# "The Distance Between You and Me" - 2:41
# "The Heart That You Own" - 3:08
# "Takes a Lot to Rock You" - 2:59
# "Nothing's Changed Here" (Dwight Yoakam, Kostas) - 2:56
# "Sad, Sad Music" - 3:53
# "Since I Started Drinkin' Again" - 3:52
# "If There Was a Way" - 2:54
# "Turn It On, Turn It Up, Turn Me Loose" (Kostas, Wayland Patton) - 3:23
# "It Only Hurts When I Cry" (Yoakam, Roger Miller) - 2:33
# "Send a Message to My Heart" (Kostas, Kathy Louvin) - 3:15
#*duet with Patty Loveless
# "I Don't Need It Done" (John Sieger) - 4:44
# "You're the One" - 3:57
# "Dangerous Man" - 4:15 (CD only bonus track)
# "Let's Work Together" (Wilbert Harrison) - 3:33 (CD only bonus track)

Personnel

As listed in liner notes.
*Pete Anderson – electric guitar, acoustic guitar, baritone guitar
*Tom Brumley – steel guitar
*Lenny Castro – percussion
*Jeff Donavan – drums
*Skip Edwards – keyboards
*Tommy Funderburk – background vocals
*Scott Joss – fiddle, mandolin
*Jim Lauderdale – background vocals
*Roger Miller – background vocals
*Tim O'Brien – mandolin, background vocals
*Dean Parks – acoustic guitar
*Al Perkins – banjo, Dobro, steel guitar
*Taras Prodaniuk – bass guitar, six-string bass guitar
*Amy Ray – background vocals
*Don Reed – fiddle
*Bill Ross – strings
*Emily Saliers – background vocals
*Dwight Yoakam – lead vocals, acoustic guitar

Awards and Charts

Billboard charts

Albums

ingles

* "Turn It On, Turn It Up, Turn Me Loose" (September 1990)
** b/w: "Since I Started Drinkin' Again"
* "You're the One" (February 1991)
** b/w: "If There Was a Way"
* "Nothing's Changed Here" (June 1991)
** b/w: "Sad, Sad Music"
* "It Only Hurts When I Cry" (November 1991)
** b/w: "Let's Work Together"
* "The Heart That You Own" (March 1992)
** b/w: "Dangerous Man"
* "Takes a Lot to Rock You" (July 1992)
** b/w: "Send a Message to My Heart"

External links

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dD-ppQqSV3k "Send a Message to My Heart" performance]