A Long Way Home is the tenth album of new recordings by Dwight Yoakam

Dwight Yoakam

Dwight David Yoakam is an American singer-songwriter, actor and film director, most famous for his pioneering country music...

. It reached No. 11 on the Billboard

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 Country Album, with two of its tracks charting on the Hot Country Singles

Hot Country Songs

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 chart. "Things Change" reached No. 17, while "These Arms" peaked at No. 57. Yoakam wrote all the songs on the album himself.

Track listing

All songs written by Dwight Yoakam.

1. "Same Fool" – 3:03
2. "The Curse" – 2:33
3. "Things Change" – 3:45
4. "Yet to Succeed" – 3:19
5. "I Wouldn't Put It Past Me" – 2:38
6. "These Arms" – 3:31
7. "That's Okay" – 2:26
8. "Only Want You More" – 3:22
9. "I'll Just Take These" – 2:49
10. "A Long Way Home" – 2:55
11. "Listen" – 3:47
12. "Traveler's Lantern" – 3:25
13. "Maybe You Like It, Maybe You Don't" – 4:20

Personnel

• Beth Andersen – background vocals
• Pete Anderson
  Pete Anderson
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   – electric guitar
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  , acoustic guitar
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  , lap steel guitar
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  , hand claps
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  , finger snaps
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• Bonnie Bramlett Sheridan
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   – background vocals
• Jim Christie – drums
• Skip Edwards – keyboards
  Keyboard instrument
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  , piano
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  , Hammond B-3 organ, Wurlitzer
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• Tommy Funderburk – background vocals
• Carl Jackson
  Carl Jackson
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   – background vocals
• Scott Joss – fiddle
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• Jim Lauderdale
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   – background vocals
• Taras Prodaniuk – bass guitar
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• Marty Rifkin – Dobro
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  , pedal steel guitar
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• Ralph Stanley
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   – banjo
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  , background vocals
• "Tempo" – percussion
• Dwight Yoakam – lead vocals, acoustic guitar

Strings

String section

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 conducted by Murray Adler and conducted by Jimmy Boyd.

Album

Chart (1998)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums	11
U.S. Billboard 200	60
Canadian RPM Country Albums	12
Canadian Albums Chart	67

Singles

Year	Single	Chart positions
		US Country Hot Country Songs Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales...	US Billboard Hot 100 The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...	CAN Country
1998	"Things Change"	17	99	23
	"These Arms"	57	—	79
"—" denotes releases that did not chart