If We Ever Make It Home

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If We Ever Make It Home
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Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 30, 2008
Genre Red Dirt, Texas Country
Label Sustain Records
Producer J.R. Rodriguez
Wade Bowen chronology
Lost Hotel
(2006)
If We Ever Make It Home
(2008)
Live at Billy Bob's Texas
(2010)

If We Ever Make It Home is Wade Bowen's third studio album. It was released in the fall of 2008. The album captures the emotion Bowen's wife's battle with post-partum depression. [1] The song "Daddy and the Devil" features the vocals of singer/songwriter Chris Knight. The album's second single, "Trouble," is the second of Bowen's songs to have a music video, which was directed by Evan Kaufmann. [2]

Contents

Track listing

  1. "You Had Me At My Best" (Wade Bowen, Jedd Hughes) – 4:17
  2. "If We Ever Make It Home" (Bowen, Jim Beavers) – 4:08
  3. "Turn On The Lights" (Bowen, Stephony Smith) – 3:51
  4. "Ghost In This Town" (Bowen, Michael Cox) – 3:56
  5. "Why Makes Perfect Sense" (Bowen, Randy Rogers) – 5:15
  6. "Trouble" (Bowen, Clint Ingersoll) – 4:01
  7. "Nobody's Fool" (Bowen, Rogers) – 3:36
  8. "Into The Arms Of You" (Sean McConnell) – 4:18
  9. "From Bad To Good" (Bowen, Radney Foster) – 4:01
  10. "Missing You" (Matt Powell) – 3:38
  11. "Daddy And The Devil" (ft. Chris Knight) (Chuck Cannon, Chuck Jones, Tom Bukovac) – 3:44
  12. "Somewhere Beautiful" (McConnell) – 5:04

Personnel

Chart performance

Chart (2008)Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums29
U.S. Billboard 200176
U.S. Billboard Top Heatseekers2

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References

  1. "If We Ever Make It Home on Roughstock.com". Archived from the original on 2008-12-02. Retrieved 2009-10-28.
  2. "Trouble Music Video". Archived from the original on 2021-12-20.