Track listing

1. "To the Morning" – 6:34
2. "Stars" – 3:30
3. "More Than Ever" – 5:14
4. "Be on Your Way" – 3:24
5. "Hickory Grove" – 4:40
6. "Long Way Home (Live in the Country)" – 5:31
7. "Looking for a Lady" – 2:58
8. "Anyway I Love You" – 3:50
9. "Wysteria" – 4:03
10. "The River" – 7:13

Personnel

• Dan Fogelberg
  Dan Fogelberg
  Daniel Grayling "Dan" Fogelberg was an American singer-songwriter, composer, and multi-instrumentalist, whose music was inspired by sources as diverse as folk, pop, rock, classical, jazz, and bluegrass music...
  
   - organ
  Organ (music)
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  , acoustic guitar, guitar
  Guitar
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  , piano
  Piano
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  , electric guitar
  Electric guitar
  An electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...
  
  , keyboard
  Keyboard instrument
  A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
  
  , vocals
  Singing
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  , Moog synthesizer
  Moog synthesizer
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• David Briggs
  David Briggs (American musician)
  David Briggs is an American keyboardist, record producer, arranger, composer and studio owner....
  
   - organ, piano
• Kenneth A. Buttrey - percussion
  Percussion instrument
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  , drums
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• Farrell Morris - percussion, vibraphone
  Vibraphone
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• Weldon Myrick - dobro
  Dobro
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  , guitar, pedal steel, steel guitar
  Steel guitar
  Steel guitar is a type of guitar or the method of playing the instrument. Developed in Hawaii in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a steel guitar is usually positioned horizontally; strings are plucked with one hand, while the other hand changes the pitch of one or more strings with the use...
  
  
• Norbert Putnam
  Norbert Putnam
  Norbert Putnam is an American record producer and musician. He grew up near Florence, Alabama and was part of the Muscle Shoals musicians brought to Nashville to play for Elvis Presley in 1965. Putnam worked there as a bassist on recording sessions with Presley, Roy Orbison, Al Hirt, Henry...
  
   - bass
  Bass guitar
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  , cello
  Cello
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• Buddy Spicher
  Buddy Spicher
  Buddy Spicher is an American fiddle player.Spicher started in the late 50s as part of the backing band for Audrey Williams, the widow of Hank Williams, later with Hank Snow, the Charles River Valley Boys....
  
   - fiddle
  Fiddle
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  , violin
  Violin
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  , viola
  Viola
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• Glen Spreen - strings

Production

• Producer: Norbert Putnam
• Engineers: Gene Eichelberger, Lee Hazen
• String arrangements: Bill Pursell
  Bill Pursell
  Bill Pursell is an American composer and former session pianist. He had a brief but successful career as a pop musician before continuing on as a session player....
  
  , Glen Spreen
• Photography: Kenneth A. Buttrey
• Portraits: Dan Fogelberg

Covers

• Amy Holland
  Amy Holland
  Amy Holland is a pop rock singer. She is of Dutch descent and changed her name from Boersma to Holland , because she thought it would make a better stage name. Her mother was country star Esmereldy and her father was opera singer Harry Boersma...
  
   recorded a cover version of "Stars" by Dan Fogelberg on her 1980 debut album.
• Alison Krauss & Union Station recorded a cover version of "Stars" on the 2001 album New Favorite
  New Favorite
  New Favorite is the ninth album by bluegrass music group Alison Krauss & Union Station, released August 14, 2001. The album peaked in the top 50 of the Billboard 200 and within the top 5 of the Billboard charts for both Country and Bluegrass and was certified gold...
  
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