Halfway Home (album)

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Halfway Home
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Studio album by
Released1991
RecordedJanuary–March 1991
Label MCA
Producer Preston Reed
Preston Reed chronology
Preston Reed
(1990)
Halfway Home
(1991)
Border Towns
(1993)

Halfway Home is an album by guitarist Preston Reed. It marks the first instance of other musicians in an ensemble appearing on a Preston Reed recording. [1]

Contents

Halfway Home is out of print. The title track was re-recorded in a new version on Reed's release History of Now.

Track listing

All songs by Preston Reed

  1. "You Are Always with Me"
  2. "Baroque"
  3. "A Wish for Peace"
  4. "Halfway Home"
  5. "Deadline"
  6. "Anthem"
  7. "Pattern Picker"
  8. "An Island of Your Own"
  9. "Pull Tap"
  10. "Twang"
  11. "Time Will Tell"

Personnel

Production notes

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References

  1. Preston Reed discography at his website. Archived 2008-01-08 at the Wayback Machine Accessed on December 24, 2007.