Home, Home on the Road

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Home, Home on the Road
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Live album by
ReleasedApril 1974
Genre Country rock
Label Columbia
Producer Jerry Garcia
New Riders of the Purple Sage chronology
The Adventures of Panama Red
(1973)
Home, Home on the Road
(1974)
Brujo
(1974)
Professional ratings
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Home, Home on the Road is an album by the American country rock group the New Riders of the Purple Sage. Released by Columbia Records in 1974, it was their first live album, and their fifth album overall. The eleven songs on the album are a combination of originals and covers. Six of them had appeared on previous New Riders albums, and five had not.

Contents

Home, Home on the Road was produced by Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead, who had co-founded the New Riders and had been their original pedal steel guitar player. One track, "Kick in the Head", was written by Robert Hunter, who wrote the lyrics to many Grateful Dead songs.

Track listing

  1. "Hi, Hello, How Are You" (John Dawson)
  2. "She's No Angel" (J.W. Arnold, Wanda Ballman)
  3. "Groupie" (Dave Torbert)
  4. "Sunday Susie" (Dawson)
  5. "Kick in the Head" (Robert Hunter)
  6. "Truck Drivin' Man" (Terry Fell)
  7. "Hello Mary Lou" (Gene Pitney, C. Mangiaracina)
  8. "Sutter's Mill" (Dawson)
  9. "Dead Flowers" (Mick Jagger, Keith Richards)
  10. "Henry" (Dawson)
  11. "School Days" (Chuck Berry)

Personnel

New Riders of the Purple Sage

Additional musicians

Production

Cover photography: Jamie Eric Eisman

Notes

  1. Rhulmann, William. Home, Home on the Road at AllMusic. Retrieved June 15, 2011.

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