Where Your Road Leads (song)

"Where Your Road Leads" is a song written by Victoria Shaw and Desmond Child, and recorded by American country music artists Trisha Yearwood and Garth Brooks. It was released in September 1998 as the second single and title track from the album Where Your Road Leads. The song reached #18 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.^[1]

Shaw previously recorded the song on her 1995 album In Full View.

Critical reception

Deborah Evans Price, of Billboard magazine reviewed the song favorably, calling it a "gorgeous lyric." She goes on to say that Yearwood's "strong, supple voice beautifully conveys the passionate commitment in the words, and Brooks' warm demeanor provides affecting support." On the production, she say that it at times, "comes perilously close to bombast." ^[2]

Chart performance

"Where Your Road Leads" debuted at number 58 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks for the week of September 19, 1998.

Chart (1998)	Peak position
Canada Country Tracks (RPM)^[3]	18
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)^[4]	18

References

↑ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 403.
↑ Billboard, September 12, 1998: Vol. 110 Iss. 37 - p. 32
↑ "Top RPM Country Tracks: Issue 6983." RPM. Library and Archives Canada. November 23, 1998. Retrieved July 14, 2013.
↑ "Trisha Yearwood – Chart history" Billboard Hot Country Songs for Trisha Yearwood.

Trisha Yearwood singles

Trisha Yearwood	"She's in Love with the Boy" "Like We Never Had a Broken Heart" "That's What I Like About You" "The Woman Before Me"

Hearts in Armor	"Wrong Side of Memphis" "Walkaway Joe" (w/ Don Henley) "You Say You Will" "Down on My Knees"

The Song Remembers When	"The Song Remembers When" "Better Your Heart Than Mine"

The Sweetest Gift	"It Wasn't His Child" "Reindeer Boogie"

Thinkin' About You	"XXX's and OOO's (An American Girl)" "Thinkin' About You" "You Can Sleep While I Drive" "I Wanna Go Too Far" "On a Bus to St. Cloud"

Everybody Knows	"Believe Me Baby (I Lied)" "Everybody Knows" "I Need You"

(Songbook) A Collection of Hits	"How Do I Live" "In Another's Eyes" (w/ Garth Brooks) "Perfect Love"

Where Your Road Leads	"There Goes My Baby" "Where Your Road Leads" (w/ Garth Brooks) "Powerful Thing" "I'll Still Love You More"

Real Live Woman	"Real Live Woman" "Where Are You Now"

Inside Out	"I Would've Loved You Anyway" "Inside Out" (w/ Don Henley) "I Don't Paint Myself in Corners"

Jasper County	"Georgia Rain" "Trying to Love You"

Heaven, Heartache and the Power of Love	"Heaven, Heartache and the Power of Love" "This Is Me You're Talking To" "They Call It Falling for a Reason"

PrizeFighter: Hit After Hit	"PrizeFighter" "I Remember You"

Guest singles	"Hope" "Squeeze Me In" (w/ Garth Brooks) "Love Will Always Win" (w/ Garth Brooks) "Another Try" (w/ Josh Turner) "Breaking Apart" (w/ Chris Isaak) "The Call" (w/ Garth Brooks)

Other singles	"I Fall to Pieces" (w/ Aaron Neville) "Wild as the Wind" (w/ Garth Brooks) "You're Where I Belong" "Santa on the Rooftop" (w/ Rosie O'Donnell)

Garth Brooks singles

Garth Brooks	"Much Too Young (To Feel This Damn Old)" "If Tomorrow Never Comes" "Not Counting You" "The Dance"

No Fences	"Friends in Low Places" "Unanswered Prayers" "Two of a Kind, Workin' on a Full House" "The Thunder Rolls" "Wild Horses" (released in 2001)

Ropin' the Wind	"Rodeo" "Shameless" "What She's Doing Now" "Papa Loved Mama" "The River"

The Chase	"We Shall Be Free" "Somewhere Other Than the Night" "Learning to Live Again" "That Summer"

In Pieces	"Ain't Goin' Down ('Til the Sun Comes Up)" "American Honky-Tonk Bar Association" "Standing Outside the Fire" "One Night a Day" "Callin' Baton Rouge" "The Red Strokes"

Fresh Horses	"She's Every Woman" "The Fever" "The Beaches of Cheyenne" "The Change" "It's Midnight Cinderella" "That Ol' Wind"

Sevens	"Longneck Bottle" "She's Gonna Make It" "Two Piña Coladas" "You Move Me" "Do What You Gotta Do" (released in 2000)

The Limited Series	"To Make You Feel My Love"

Double Live	"It's Your Song"

Greatest Hits (as Chris Gaines)	"Lost in You" "It Don't Matter to the Sun" "That's the Way I Remember It"

Scarecrow	"When You Come Back to Me Again" (released in 2000) "Wrapped Up in You" "Squeeze Me In" (with Trisha Yearwood) "Thicker Than Blood" "Why Ain't I Running"

The Lost Sessions	"Good Ride Cowboy" "Love Will Always Win" (with Trisha Yearwood) "That Girl Is a Cowboy"

The Ultimate Hits	"More Than a Memory" "Workin' for a Livin'" (with Huey Lewis) "Midnight Sun"

Man Against Machine	"People Loving People" "Mom"

Gunslinger	"Baby, Let's Lay Down and Dance"

Guest singles	"Whatcha Gonna Do with a Cowboy (with Chris LeDoux; uncredited) "In Another's Eyes" (with Trisha Yearwood) "One Heart at a TIme" (charity single) "Burnin the Roadhouse Down" (with Steve Wariner) "Where Your Road Leads" (with Trisha Yearwood) "Katie Wants a Fast One" (with Steve Wariner) "Beer Run (B Double E Double Are You In?)" (with George Jones)

Other songs	"Hard Luck Woman" "Santa Looked a Lot Like Daddy" "The Call" (with Trisha Yearwood)

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