If I Could Just Go Home

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If I Could Just Go Home
If I Could Just Go Home.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedMarch 1968
RecordedSeptember 1966–September 1967, RCA Victor Studio, Nashville
Genre Country and western
Length30:24
Label RCA Victor (LSP-3948)
Producer Bob Ferguson
Ed Bruce chronology
If I Could Just Go Home
(1968)
Shades of Ed Bruce
(1969)

If I Could Just Go Home is the first album by country artist Ed Bruce, released in 1968. The album contains newly recorded songs, with the exception of five tracks that had previously been featured on single releases between 1966 and 1967. The album reached No. 44 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart. [1]

Contents

Track listing

All tracks are written by Ed Bruce, except where noted

No.TitleWriter(s)Original releaseLength
1."I Know Better"  2:38
2."Why Can't I Come Home?"  2:17
3."Walker's Woods"Kay Arnold"Lonesome Is Me" ( B-side, 1966)2:37
4."Ninety-seven More to Go"  2:13
5."If I Could Just Go Home"  3:40
6."Give More Than You Take"  2:29
7."By Route of New Orleans"Sonny Moore 2:30
8."Shadows of Her Mind" Kris Kristofferson "Her Sweet Love and the Baby" (B-side, 1967)2:44
9."Lonesome Is Me" 19662:20
10."The Price I Pay to Stay"  2:31
11."I'm Getting Better" "Last Train to Clarksville" (B-side, 1967)2:06
12."Her Sweet Love and the Baby" 19672:24
Total length:30:24

Personnel

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References

  1. Discography, retrieved November 7, 2013