Drive You Home Again is an album by American

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The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 singer/songwriter Chris Smither

Chris Smither

Chris Smither is an American folk/blues singer, guitarist, and songwriter. His music draws deeply from the blues, American folk music, modern poets and philosophers.-Early life, influences and education:...

, released in 1999.

Reception

Writing for Allmusic, critic Jeff Burger wrote of the album "Smither's gravelly, instantly recognizable voice is a perfect fit for his pensive, sharply honed lyrics and his blues and folk-based music... Like Nick Drake and the Van Morrison of Astral Weeks days, Smither makes you feel as if you're in a dream. You may not want to wake up for a while." Music critic Robert Christgau

Robert Christgau

Robert Christgau is an American essayist, music journalist, and self-proclaimed "Dean of American Rock Critics".One of the earliest professional rock critics, Christgau is known for his terse capsule reviews, published since 1969 in his Consumer Guide columns...

 wrote of the album "...you'd never suspect he was a moral philosopher. But in fact he is that even rarer thing, a moral philosopher with good values, and here his songwriting takes over a career marked by killer covers... he thinks on his butt while keeping the beat with his foot. He's worth attending even if you think blues are history."

Track listing

All songs by Chris Smither unless otherwise noted.

1. "Drive You Home Again" – 5:28
2. "Tell Me Why You Love Me" – 3:55
3. "No Love Today" – 4:57
4. "Hey, Hey, Hey" – 4:04
5. "Get a Better One" – 5:22
6. "Hold On II " – 3:24
7. "So Long" – 4:48
8. "Duncan & Brady" (Traditional)– 3:52
9. "Steel Guitar" (Danny O'Keefe
   Danny O'Keefe
   Danny O'Keefe is a U.S. based singer-songwriter, born in Spokane, Washington, in 1943. O'Keefe's musical career has spanned four decades from his early days playing in the Minnesota coffee houses to his present station in the Seattle area...
   
   ) – 3:38
10. "Don't Make Promises" (Tim Hardin
    Tim Hardin
    James Timothy "Tim" Hardin was an American folk musician and composer. He wrote the Top 40 hits "If I Were a Carpenter", covered by, among others, Joan Baez, Bobby Darin, Johnny Cash, Ramblin' Jack Elliot, and Robert Plant, and "Reason to Believe", covered by many, including Rod Stewart, as well...
    
    ) – 3:25
11. "Rattlesnake Preacher" (Eric Von Schmidt
    Eric Von Schmidt
    Eric "Rick" Von Schmidt was an American singer-songwriter and Grammy Award recipient. He was associated with the folk/blues revival of the 1960s and a key part of the East Coast folk music scene that included Bob Dylan and Joan Baez.-Background and associations with Dylan:Von Schmidt's father,...
    
    ) – 3:24

Personnel

• Chris Smither – vocals, guitar
• Joel Jose Guzman - Accordion, keyboards, melodica
• John Mills - saxophone
• Marty Muse - pedal steel guitar
• Chris Maresh - bass
• Mickey Raphael
  Mickey Raphael
  Michael Siegfried "Mickey" Raphael is a professional harmonica player, best known for his work with Willie Nelson. He has recorded with Vince Gill, Emmylou Harris, Elton John, Mötley Crüe, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Wynton Marsalis, Kenny Chesney, U2 and Neil Young.Raphael's style is mostly second...
  
  - harmonica
• Raul Rodriguez - tuba
• Brannen Temple - drums, percussion
• Malford Milligan - background vocals

Production

• Produced by Stephen Bruton
• Mixed by Chet Himes
• Engineered by Jay Hudson
• Mastered by Jerry Tubb