Find Your Own Way Home

Find Your Own Way Home is the fifteenth studio album by REO Speedwagon. It was produced by Joe Vannelli and Kevin Cronin and was released in 2007 by Speedwagon Recordings and Mailboat Records. The album came eleven years after the band's previous studio album, Building the Bridge. The album found the band returning to its trademark hard rock sound after the soft ballads of Bridge. Though the album did not chart, it did produce the minor hit "I Needed to Fall", which peaked at #25 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart. "Smilin' in the End" was released at the same time as "I Needed to Fall" to classic rock stations, but did not chart. The third single from the album, the title track, reached #23 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary Chart.[1]

Find Your Own Way Home
Studio album by
ReleasedApril 3, 2007
Recorded2005–06
StudioBlue Moon Studio, Agoura Hills, CA
GenreRock, hard rock
Length43:55
LabelMailboat
Speedwagon
ProducerJoe Vannelli, Kevin Cronin
REO Speedwagon chronology
Building the Bridge
(1996)
Find Your Own Way Home
(2007)
Not So Silent Night ... Christmas with REO Speedwagon
(2009)

Also released in a limited edition package including XM Artist Confidential, a live DVD recorded at the XM Performance Theatre in Washington, D.C., and the live CD Hi Infidelity Then Again...Live, also recorded at the same venue. The CD also includes enhanced video content.

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[2]

Track listing

edit

Find Your Own Way Home

edit
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Smilin' in the End"Kevin Cronin3:36
2."Find Your Own Way Home"Cronin4:48
3."I Needed to Fall"Cronin4:08
4."Dangerous Combination"Cronin, Jim Peterik4:45
5."Lost on the Road of Love"Cronin5:16
6."Another Lifetime"Dave Amato, Cronin, Bruce Hall, Bryan Hitt4:04
7."Run Away Baby"Cronin3:05
8."Everything You Feel"Cronin5:29
9."Born to Love You"Hall4:46
10."Let My Love Find You"Cronin3:58
European bonus tracks
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
11."Take It on the Run" (+)Gary Richrath2:23
12."Smilin' in the End" (+)Cronin3:39
13."I Needed to Fall" (+)Cronin4:18
14."Ridin' the Storm Out" (+)Richrath4:59
Total length:59:24

(+) Previously unreleased acoustic versions

XM Artist Confidential DVD

edit
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Interview" 0:58
2."Music Man"Cronin3:38
3."Interview" 2:58
4."Dangerous Combination"Cronin, Peterik4:53
5."Interview" 2:54
6."Ridin' the Storm Out"Richrath5:03
7."Interview" 3:32
8."I Needed to Fall"Cronin4:19
9."Interview" 6:07
10."Smilin' in the End"Cronin3:44
11."Interview" 5:20
12."Take It on the Run"Richrath2:22
13."Interview" 1:07
14."Roll with the Changes"Cronin5:20
Total length:52:24

Hi Infidelity Then Again...Live

edit
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Don't Let Him Go"Cronin4:24
2."Keep On Loving You"Cronin3:31
3."Follow My Heart"Tom Kelly, Richrath3:34
4."In Your Letter"Richrath3:12
5."Take It on the Run"Richrath3:59
6."Tough Guys"Cronin3:50
7."Out of Season"Cronin, Kelly3:11
8."Shakin' It Loose"Richrath2:34
9."Someone Tonight"Hall2:44
10."I Wish You Were There"Cronin4:20
Total length:35:23
Bonus tracks enhanced videos
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Out of Season"Cronin, Kelly3:11
2."Someone Tonight"Hall2:44
3."I Wish You Were There"Cronin4:20

Personnel

edit

REO Speedwagon

Additional personnel

  • Joe Vannelli – acoustic piano (2, 3, 9, 10), Hammond organ (2, 9), virtual strings (2, 3, 6, 10), electric piano (5, 7, 8), synthesizers (8)

Release history

edit
Region Date Title Label Format Catalog #
USA 2007 Find Your Own Way Home Speedwagon recordings CD 5500
USA April 3, 2007 Find Your Own Way Home
XM Artist Confidential DVD
Hi Infidelity Then Again...Live
Speedwagon recordings 2-CD / DVD (Box set) 7500
USA April 24, 2007 Find Your Own Way Home Mailboat CD MBOT 3500
UK 2007 Find Your Own Way Home Artful Records CD ARTFULCD61
Germany September 24, 2007 Find Your Own Way Home Edel Records CD (European bonus tracks) 0184492ERE
Japan 2008 Find Your Own Way Home Teichiku Records CD (Bonus tracks) / DVD TECI-33458

References

edit
  1. ^ "Adult Contemporary". Billboard. Retrieved 2015-01-05.
  2. ^ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. REO Speedwagon: Find Your Own Way Home at AllMusic. Retrieved April 29, 2020.