The Way Back Home

The Way Back Home is the second studio album by American country music artist Vince Gill. It was released in 1987 by RCA Nashville and it produced four chart singles on the Billboard country charts. In order of release, these were "Cinderella" (No. 5), "Let's Do Something (No. 16), "Everybody's Sweetheart" (No. 11) and "The Radio" (No. 39). After the final single, Gill left RCA's roster in favor of MCA Nashville, where in 1989 he released his fourth album, When I Call Your Name.

Production

 * Producer – Richard Landis
 * Recorded by Csaba Petocz
 * Additional recording by Joe Bogan and John Vigran
 * Recording Assistants – Jeff DeMorris, Richard McKeinon and Dennis Ritchie.
 * Recorded at Conway Studios (Hollywood, CA) and The Village Recorder (Los Angeles, CA).
 * Overdubbed by Jim Dineen
 * Mixed by Ed Thacker
 * Overdubbed and Mixed at The Grey Room (Hollywood, CA).
 * Mastered by Wally Traugott at Capitol Studios (Hollywood, CA).
 * Art Direction – Mary Hamilton
 * Design – John Coulter Design
 * Photography and Hand Tinting by Dennis Keely
 * Management – Fitzgerald Hartley Co.

Reissue Credits
 * Producer – Mike Ragogna
 * Mastered by Elliott Federman
 * Archivists – Claudia Depkin, Joanne Feltman and Glenn Korman.

Personnel

 * Vince Gill – lead and backing vocals, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, banjo, dobro, mandolin
 * Philip Aaberg – pianos
 * Randy Kerber – pianos
 * Richard Landis – synthesizers, percussion
 * Jim Lang – synthesizers
 * Alan Pasqua – synthesizers
 * George Doering – electric guitars
 * Reed Nielson – acoustic guitar (3), backing vocals (3)
 * JayDee Maness – pedal steel guitar
 * Leland Sklar – bass guitar
 * Neil Stubenhaus – bass guitar
 * Roy Huskey, Jr. – upright bass
 * Carlos Vega – drums
 * Leonard Arnold – percussion
 * Byron Berline – fiddle
 * Charlie Calello – rhythm arrangements
 * Kristine Arnold – backing vocals
 * Rosanne Cash – backing vocals
 * Joe Chemay – backing vocals
 * Rodney Crowell – backing vocals
 * Kevin Dorsey – backing vocals
 * Kenny Edwards – backing vocals
 * Janis Gill – backing vocals
 * Andrew Gold – backing vocals
 * Jim Haas – backing vocals
 * Emmylou Harris – backing vocals
 * Bonnie Raitt – backing vocals
 * Jerry Whitman – backing vocals