Life's Highway
1985 studio album by Steve Wariner
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Studio album by Steve Wariner | ||||
Released | 1985 | |||
Studio | The Castle Franklin, TN Emerald Recording Studios Nashville, TN | |||
Genre | Country | |||
Length | 33.40 | |||
Label | MCA Records | |||
Producer | Jimmy Bowen, Tony Brown | |||
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Life's Highway is the fourth studio album by American country music artist Steve Wariner. It was released in 1985 by MCA. Three singles were released from it in 1986, and the first two singles, including the title track, went to number-one. This album peaked at #22. Rodney Crowell later recorded "She's Crazy for Leaving" on his 1989 album Diamonds & Dirt.
Track listing
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Life's Highway" | Richard Leigh, Roger Murrah | 3:17 |
2. | "Back Up Grinnin' Again"" | David Goodman | 3:22 |
3. | "I Let a Keeper Get Away" | Steve Wariner | 3:03 |
4. | "She's Crazy for Leavin'"" | Rodney Crowell, Guy Clark | 3:27 |
5. | "In Love and Out of Danger"" | Craig Bickhardt, Wendy Waldman | 3:34 |
6. | "She's Leaving Me All Over Town" | Wariner, Robert Byrne, Tom Brasfield | 2:47 |
7. | "Natural History" | Wariner, Mac McAnally | 3:19 |
8. | "You Can Dream of Me" | Wariner, John Hall | 4:03 |
9. | "Starting Over Again" | Don Goodman, John Wesley Ryles | 4:19 |
10. | "The Heartland" | Wariner, Wood Newton | 3:49 |
Personnel
- Chet Atkins – Del Vecchio guitar solo (7)
- Eddie Bayers – drums (all tracks)
- Tony Brown – piano (9), synthesizer (1), truculent yell (4)
- Paul Davis – background vocals (5,10)
- Jerry Douglas – dobro (1)
- Emory Gordy Jr. - bass guitar (all tracks)
- John Hall – background vocals (8)
- Lance Hoppen – background vocals (8)
- Larry Hoppen - background vocals (8)
- Carl Jackson – background vocals (1)
- John Barlow Jarvis – keyboards (1,10), piano (3,4,5,6), electric piano (2,5,7,8,9)
- Shane Keister – organ (9), synthesizer (2,5), vocoder (7)
- Doana Kuper - truculent yell (4)
- Allyn Love – steel guitar (1,2,4)
- Mac McAnally - acoustic guitar (4,7), background vocals (1,7,10)
- Farrell Morris – percussion (2,5,7)
- Mark O'Connor – fiddle (6,10), mandolin (1)
- Keith Odle - truculent yell (4)
- Giles Reaves - truculent yell (4)
- John Wesley Ryles – background vocals (9)
- Gove Scrivenor - autoharp (10)
- Harry Stinson – background vocals (2,3)
- Wendy Waldman – background vocals (5)
- Billy Joe Walker Jr. – acoustic guitar (1,2,3,8,10), electric guitar (4,5,6,7,9)
- Steve Wariner – acoustic guitar (2), guitar solo (3,6), lead vocals (all tracks), background vocals (7)
- Terry Wariner – background vocals (4,6,10)
- Reggie Young – electric guitar (all tracks), wham bar (2)
Charts
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References
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- Steve Wariner
- Midnight Fire
- One Good Night Deserves Another
- Life's Highway
- It's a Crazy World
- I Should Be with You
- I Got Dreams
- Laredo
- I Am Ready
- Drive
- No More Mr. Nice Guy
- Burnin' the Roadhouse Down
- Two Teardrops
- Faith in You
- Steal Another Day
- Greatest Hits (1987)
- "I'm Already Taken"
- "So Sad (To Watch Good Love Go Bad)"
- "Your Memory"
- "By Now"
- "All Roads Lead to You"
- "Kansas City Lights"
- "Midnight Fire"
- "Lonely Women Make Good Lovers"
- "Why Goodbye"
- "What I Didn't Do"
- "Heart Trouble"
- "Some Fools Never Learn"
- "You Can Dream of Me"
- "Life's Highway"
- "Starting Over Again"
- "Small Town Girl"
- "The Weekend"
- "Lynda"
- "Baby I'm Yours"
- "I Should Be with You"
- "Hold On (A Little Longer)
- "Where Did I Go Wrong"
- "I Got Dreams"
- "When I Could Come Home to You"
- "The Domino Theory"
- "Precious Thing"
- "There for Awhile"
- "Leave Him Out of This"
- "The Tip of My Fingers"
- "A Woman Loves"
- "If I Didn't Love You"
- "Drivin' and Cryin'"
- "It Won't Be Over You"
- "Holes in the Floor of Heaven"
- "Burnin' the Roadhouse Down"
- "Two Teardrops"
- "Katie Wants a Fast One"
- "That's How You Know When Love's Right"
- "That Hand That Rocks the Cradle"
- "What If I Said"
- "Been There"
- Discography
- "Longneck Bottle"
- "One Small Miracle"
- "Nothin' but the Taillights"
- "Where the Blacktop Ends"