The Way Back Home is the third studio album by American country music

Country music

Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...

 artist Vince Gill

Vince Gill

Vincent Grant "Vince" Gill is an American neotraditional country singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He has achieved commercial success and fame both as frontman to the country rock band Pure Prairie League in the 1970s, and as a solo artist beginning in 1983, where his talents as a...

. It was released in 1987 on RCA Records

RCA Records

RCA Records is one of the flagship labels of Sony Music Entertainment. The RCA initials stand for Radio Corporation of America , which was the parent corporation from 1929 to 1985 and a partner from 1985 to 1986.RCA's Canadian unit is Sony's oldest label...

 and it produced four chart singles on the Billboard

Billboard (magazine)

Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...

country charts. In order of release, these were "Cinderella" (#5), "Let's Do Something (#16), "Everybody's Sweetheart" (#11), and "The Radio" (#39). After the final single, Gill exited RCA's roster in favor of MCA Nashville, where he released his fourth album, 1989's When I Call Your Name.

Track listing

1. "Everybody's Sweetheart
   Everybody's Sweetheart
   "Everybody's Sweetheart" is a single written and recorded by American country music artist Vince Gill. Released in 1988, it was the third single from the album The Way Back Home. The song reached #11 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.-Chart performance:...
   
   " (Vince Gill) – 2:52
2. "The Way Back Home" (Gill) – 3:56
3. "Cinderella
   Cinderella (Vince Gill song)
   "Cinderella" is a single by American Country music artist Vince Gill. Released in March 1987, it was the first single from the album The Way Back Home. The song reached #5 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.-Chart performance:...
   
   " (Reed Nielsen) – 3:36
4. "Let's Do Something" (Gill, Nielsen) – 3:19
5. "The Radio" (Gill, Nielsen) – 4:05
6. "Baby That's Tough" (Gill, Guy Clark
   Guy Clark
   Guy Clark is an American Texas Country artist. In his career, he has released more than twenty albums, primarily on major labels. He has also written singles for other artists, including Ricky Skaggs, Steve Wariner and Rodney Crowell....
   
   ) – 3:38
7. "Losing Your Love" (Gill, Hank DeVito, Rhonda Fleming) – 4:47
8. "It Doesn't Matter Anymore" (Paul Anka
   Paul Anka
   Paul Albert Anka, is a Canadian singer, songwriter, and actor.Anka first became famous as a teen idol in the late 1950s and 1960s with hit songs like "Diana'", "Lonely Boy", and "Put Your Head on My Shoulder"...
   
   ) – 3:36
9. "Something's Missing" (Gill) – 4:30

Production

• Produced By Emory Gordy Jr. & Richard Landis
• Engineered By Joe Bogan, Jeff DeMorris, Jim Dineen, Csaba Petocz, Dennis Ritchie, & John Vigran
• Mixed By Ed Thacker
• Mastered By Elliott Federman
• Archivists: Claudia Depkin, Joanne Feltman, Glenn Korman

Personnel

• Drums, Percussion: Leonard Arnold, Richard Landis, Carlos Vega
• Bass: Roy Huskey, Jr.
  Roy Huskey, Jr.
  Roy Milton Huskey was a prominent American upright bass player in country music from Nashville, Tennessee. Huskey performed alongside musicians such as Chet Atkins, Garth Brooks, Johnny Cash, Vince Gill, George Jones, Steve Earle, Doc Watson and many others...
  
  , Neil Stubenhaus
  Neil Stubenhaus
  Neil Stubenhaus is an American bass guitarist.-Career:He started his musical training playing drums and switched to bass guitar at the age of 12. He studied at the Berklee College of Music where he graduated in 1975...
  
  , Steve Strauss
• Keyboards, Synthesizers, Piano: Phillip Aaberg, Randy Kerber
  Randy Kerber
  Randy Kerber is a composer, orchestrator, keyboard player, born September 25, 1958 in Encino, California, who has had a prolific career in the world of cinema...
  
  , Richard Landis, Jim Lang, Alan Pasqua
  Alan Pasqua
  Alan Pasqua is a jazz pianist, educator and composer who co-composed the CBS Evening News theme. He also has had an extensive career in pop and rock music, most notably as a founding member, keyboardist and songwriter of the 80s hard rock band, Giant. He studied at Indiana University and the New...
  
  
• Guitars: George Doering, Vince Gill, Reed Nielsen
• Pedal Steel
  Pedal steel guitar
  The pedal steel guitar is a type of electric guitar that uses a metal bar to "fret" or shorten the length of the strings, rather than fingers on strings as with a conventional guitar. Unlike other types of steel guitar, it also uses pedals and knee levers to affect the pitch, hence the name "pedal"...
  
  : Jay Dee Maness
• Banjo & Dobro: Vince Gill
• Fiddle: Byron Berline
  Byron Berline
  Byron Berline is an American fiddle player.-Biography:Berline started playing the fiddle at age five and quickly developed a talent for it. In 1965, he recorded the album Pickin' and Fiddlin with the Dillards...
  
  
• Backing Vocals: Kristine Arnold, Rosanne Cash
  Rosanne Cash
  Rosanne Cash is an American singer-songwriter and author. She is the eldest daughter of the late country music singer Johnny Cash and his first wife, Vivian Liberto Cash Distin....
  
  , Rodney Crowell
  Rodney Crowell
  Rodney Crowell is a Grammy Award-winning musician, known primarily for his work as a singer and songwriter in country music....
  
  , Kevin Dorsey, Kenny Edwards, Janis Gill, Andrew Gold
  Andrew Gold
  Andrew Maurice Gold was an American singer, musician and songwriter. His works include the Top 10 single "Lonely Boy" , as well as the singles "Thank You for Being a Friend" , and "Never Let Her Slip Away" ....
  
  , Jim Haas, Bonnie Raitt
  Bonnie Raitt
  Bonnie Lynn Raitt is an American blues singer-songwriter and a renowned slide guitar player. During the 1970s, Raitt released a series of acclaimed roots-influenced albums which incorporated elements of blues, rock, folk and country, but she is perhaps best known for her more commercially...
  
  , Joe Chemay, Jerry Whitman

Chart performance

Chart (1987)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums	13