If I Could Just Go Home

Studio album by Ed Bruce

Released

March 1968

Recorded

September 1966-September 1967, RCA Victor Studio, Nashville

Genre

Country and western

Length

30:24

Label

RCA Victor (LSP-3948)

Producer

Bob Ferguson

Ed Bruce chronology

If I Could Just Go Home
(1968)

Shades of Ed Bruce
(1969)

Singles from If I Could Just Go Home

"Lonesome Is Me"/"Walker's Woods"
Released: 1966
"Last Train to Clarksville"/"I'm Getting Better"
Released: 1967
"Her Sweet Love and the Baby"/"Shadows of Her Mind"
Released: 1967

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]

Track listing

All tracks written by Ed Bruce, except where noted.

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Original release	Length
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"		1966	2:20
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"		1967	2:24
Total length:				30:24

Personnel

Ed Bruce - vocals
Louis Nunley, Bergen White, Marijohn Wilkin, Dorothy Ann Dillard, Glenn Baxter, Priscilla Hubbard, Mary Greene, William Wright - other vocals
Wayne Moss, Jerry Reed, Fred Carter, Jack Eubanks - lead guitar
Ray Edenton, Jerry Shook - rhythm guitar
Pete Drake - steel guitar
Henry Strzelecki, Norbert Putman - bass guitar
Bobby Dyson - electric bass
Jerry Carrigan - drums
Jerry Smith - piano
John Hartford - banjo
Charlie McCoy, Onie Wheeler - harmonica
Harold Cruthirds, Sadao Harada - cello
Marvin Chantry, Gary Vanosdale - viola
Brenton Banks, Kazuhide Isomura, Byron Williams - violin

References

↑ Discography, retrieved November 7, 2013

Ed Bruce

Albums	If I Could Just Go Home (1968) Shades of Ed Bruce (1969) Ed Bruce (1976) The Tennessean (1977) Cowboys & Dreamers (1978) Ed Bruce (1980) One to One (1981) I Write It Down (1982) You're Not Leaving Here Tonight (1983) Home Coming (1984) Tell'em I've Gone Crazy (1984) Night Things (1986) Puzzles (1965) This Old Hat (2002)

Singles	"Last Train to Clarksville" "Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys" "Texas (When I Die)" "The Man That Turned My Mama On" "Girls, Women and Ladies" "(When You Fall in Love) Everything's a Waltz" "You're the Best Break This Old Heart Ever Had" "Love's Found You and Me" "Ever, Never Lovin' You" "My First Taste of Texas" "After All" "You Turn Me On (Like a Radio)" "Nights"

Related topics	Discography United Artists Records MCA Records RCA Records Trey Bruce Lynn Anderson Bret Maverick Fire Down Below

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