Where Your Road Leads is the seventh studio album by American country music singer Trisha Yearwood , released in 1998 by MCA Nashville .
The album reached #3 on the Billboard country albums chart. The singles "There Goes My Baby", "Where Your Road Leads", "Powerful Thing" and "I'll Still Love You More" were all released from this album, peaking at #2, #18, #6 and #10, respectively, on the Billboard country music charts between 1998 and 1999. The title track was co-written by Victoria Shaw , who originally recorded it on her 1995 album In Full View . Buddy Miller provides harmony vocals on the track "Bring Me All Your Lovin'." "I'll Still Love You More" was written by Diane Warren, who also wrote Yearwood's hit from the previous year, "How Do I Live ."
Title Writer(s) 1. "There Goes My Baby " Annie Roboff, Arnie Roman 3:49 2. "Never Let You Go Again" Gordon Kennedy , Wayne Kirkpatrick , Tommy Sims 3:17 3. "That Ain't the Way I Heard It" Jamie O'Hara 3:48 4. "Powerful Thing " Al Anderson , Sharon Vaughn 2:56 5. "Love Wouldn't Lie to Me" Terry Radigan , Don Schlitz 3:47 6. "Wouldn't Any Woman" Bob DiPiero , Michele McCord, Mark D. Sanders 3:25 7. "I'll Still Love You More " Diane Warren 4:26 8. "Heart Like a Sad Song" Roboff, Roman 3:19 9. "I Don't Want to Be the One" Paul Brady , Carole King 4:04 10. "Bring Me All Your Lovin'" Kenny Greenberg , Allison Moorer , Doyle Primm5:08 11. "Where Your Road Leads " (duet with Garth Brooks ) Desmond Child , Victoria Shaw 3:26 12. "One More Chance" (Australia/Japan bonus track) JD Souther , Jack Tempchin 3:30 13. "I Have A Love [Live]" (Japan bonus track) 3:43
As listed in liner notes.[ 5]
Trisha Yearwood – lead vocals, backing vocals
John Hobbs – acoustic piano, keyboards
Steve Nathan – acoustic piano, keyboards, Hammond organ , additional strings (11)
Matt Rollings – acoustic piano, keyboards
Bobby Wood – acoustic piano, organ
Larry Byrom – acoustic guitar, electric guitar
Mark Casstevens – acoustic guitar
Steve Gibson – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, mandolin
Kenny Greenberg – electric guitar
Chris Leuzinger – electric guitar
Brent Mason – electric guitar, six-string bass
Steuart Smith – electric guitar
Paul Franklin – steel guitar
Sam Bush – mandolin
Mike Chapman – bass
Michael Rhodes – bass
Paul Leim – drums, percussion
Milton Sledge – drums, percussion
Stuart Duncan – fiddle
Conni Ellisor – string arrangements (8, 11)
The Nashville String Machine – strings (8, 11)
Al Anderson – backing vocals
Tim Buppert – backing vocals
Tabitha Fair – backing vocals
Gordon Kennedy – backing vocals
Wayne Kirkpatrick – backing vocals
Buddy Miller – backing vocals
Kim Richey – backing vocals
John Wesley Ryles – backing vocals
Harry Stinson – backing vocals
Garth Brooks – lead vocals (11)
Choir on "Where Your Road Leads"
Lisa Cochran, Mike Eldred, Kim Fleming, Vicki Hampton, Mark Ivey, Lisa Silver, Bergen White and Dennis Wilson. Choral vocals arranged by Bergen White.
Tony Brown – producer (1–10)
Trisha Yearwood – producer (1–10)
Allen Reynolds – producer (11)
Rory Kaplan – executive producer
Bill Neighbors – executive producer
Jeff Balding – recording, overdub recording
Mark Miller – recording
Steve Marcantonio – overdub recording
Mark Hagan – assistant engineer
Joe Hayden – assistant engineer
Duke Duczer – recording assistant
David Hall – recording assistant
Glenn Spinner – recording assistant, overdub recording assistant
Tim Waters – recording assistant, additional overdub recording
Russ Martin – additional overdub recording
Chuck Ainlay – mixing
Mark Ralston – mix assistant
Don Cobb – digital editing
Denny Purcell – mastering
Jeff Levison – remastering
Ric Wilson – remastering
Jessie Noble – project coordinator
Beth Middleworth – art direction, design
Russ Harrington – photography
Mary Beth Felts – make-up
Maria Smoot – hair stylist
Sheri McCoy-Hanes – stylist
Kragen & Co. – management
Studios
Recorded at Ocean Way Nashville and Jack's Tracks Recording Studios (Nashville, Tennessee).
Overdubbed at Ocean Way Recording and Emerald Sound Studios (Nashville, Tennessee).
Mixed at The Sound Kitchen (Franklin, Tennessee) and Jack's Tracks Recording Studios.
Mastered at Georgetown Masters (Nashville, Tennessee).
Year
Single
Peak chart positions
US Country
US
CAN Country
1998
"There Goes My Baby"
2
93
4
"Where Your Road Leads" (with Garth Brooks)
18
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18
1999
"Powerful Thing"
6
50
1
"I'll Still Love You More"
10
65
6
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