Love Is a Long Road (album)

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Love Is a Long Road
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Studio album by
ReleasedJune 12, 2012 (2012-06-12)
Genre Country
Length42:50
Label Open Road (Canada)
Centricity (US)
Producer Phil O'Donnell
Jeremy Spillman
High Valley chronology
High Valley
(2010)
Love Is a Long Road
(2012)
County Line
(2014)
Singles from Love Is a Long Road
  1. "Have I Told You I Love You Lately"
    Released: February 13, 2012
  2. "Let It Be Me"
    Released: June 18, 2012
  3. "Love You for a Long Time"
    Released: September 10, 2012
  4. "Trying to Believe"
    Released: March 2013

Love Is a Long Road is the third studio album by Canadian country music group High Valley. It was released on June 12, 2012 by Open Road Recordings in Canada and by Centricity Music in the United States. [1] [2] It includes the single "Have I Told You I Love You Lately" and the group's debut US release, "Love You for a Long Time".

Contents

Track listing

Love Is a Long Road track listing
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Let It Be Me"Phil Barton, Jared Crump, Brad Rempel3:04
2."Love Is a Long Road"Crump, Rempel, Fred Wilhelm2:54
3."Have I Told You I Love You Lately"Rempel, Danny Wells3:42
4."Not That Long Ago" Tim James, Phil O'Donnell, Rempel3:51
5."Trying to Believe"Travis Meadows, Rempel3:21
6."Love You for a Long Time"Crump, Rempel, Ben Stennis3:01
7."Never Took Her Dancing" Rob Crosby, Brett Jones, Allen Shamblin 4:46
8."Home Sweet You"O'Donnell, Rempel, Jeremy Spillman3:29
9."Right Here Beside Her" Neal Coty, Rempel, Brian G. White4:15
10."Dirt Rich"O'Donnell, Rempel, Spillman3:37
11."Porches"O'Donnell, Rempel, Spillman3:36
12."Back Half Acre" Kelley Lovelace, Rivers Rutherford 3:14
Total length:42:50

Personnel

High Valley

Additional musicians

Chart performance

Singles

YearSinglePeak chart positions
CAN Country
[3]
CAN
[4]
US Country Airplay
[5]
2012"Have I Told You I Love You Lately"91
"Let It Be Me"89
"Love You for a Long Time"139156
2013"Trying to Believe"21
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

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