''Back Home'' is the fifth major album release from Caedmon's Call.

Track listing

# "Only Hope" – 2:54 (Randall Goodgame, Charles Wesley) # "You Created" – 3:27 (Joshua Moore) # "Walk with Me" – 4:19 (Sandra McCracken) # "Hands of the Potter" – 3:51 (Goodgame) # "The Emptiest Day" – 3:51 (Moore, Matthew Perryman Jones) # "The Kingdom" – 4:30 (Moore) # "Beautiful Mystery" – 3:26 (Cliff Young, Aaron Tate, Derek Webb) # "The High Countries" – 5:21 (McCracken) # "Thousand Miles" – 3:21 (Aaron Senseman) # "Never Gonna Let Go" – 3:17 (Moore,

Steve Hindalong Steve Hindalong (born November 29, 1959) is an American drummer, percussionist, songwriter and producer best known for his work with the alternative rock band the Choir. Since 2006, Hindalong has also been an official member of the alternative ...

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) # "Awake My Soul" – 3:57 (McCracken) # "Manner and Means" – 4:42 (McCracken) # "Mystery of Mercy" – 3:12 (Goodgame, Andrew Peterson)

Personnel

Caedmon's Call * Cliff Young – vocals, acoustic guitar *

Derek Webb Derek Walsh Webb (born May 27, 1974) is an American singer-songwriter who first entered the music industry as a member of the band Caedmon's Call, and later embarked on a successful solo career. As a member of the Houston, Texas-based Caedmon's C ...

– vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitars,

banjo The banjo is a stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity to form a resonator. The membrane is typically circular, and usually made of plastic, or occasionally animal skin. Early forms of the instrument were fashi ...

* Danielle Young – vocals * Joshua Moore – acoustic piano, keyboards,

Hammond B3 organ The Hammond organ is an electric organ invented by Laurens Hammond and John M. Hanert and first manufactured in 1935. Multiple models have been produced, most of which use sliding #Drawbars, drawbars to vary sounds. Until 1975, Hammond organs ...

accordion Accordions (from 19th-century German ''Akkordeon'', from ''Akkord''—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed ...

, acoustic guitar, 12-string acoustic guitar, high-string acoustic guitar, electric guitars,

dobro Dobro is an American brand of resonator guitars, currently owned by Gibson and manufactured by its subsidiary Epiphone. The term "dobro" is also used as a generic term for any wood-bodied, single-cone resonator guitar. The Dobro was originally ...

mandolin A mandolin ( it, mandolino ; literally "small mandola") is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is generally plucked with a pick. It most commonly has four courses of doubled strings tuned in unison, thus giving a total of 8 ...

, MalletKAT, backing vocals * Jeff Miller – bass, backing vocals * Todd Bragg – drums, percussion * Garett Buell – drums, percussion, drum programming, MalletKAT, berimbau, cuica,

tongue drum A slit drum or slit gong is a hollow percussion instrument. In spite of the name, it is not a true drum but an idiophone, usually carved or constructed from bamboo or wood into a box with one or more slits in the top. Most slit drums have one slit ...

tabla A tabla, bn, তবলা, prs, طبلا, gu, તબલા, hi, तबला, kn, ತಬಲಾ, ml, തബല, mr, तबला, ne, तबला, or, ତବଲା, ps, طبله, pa, ਤਬਲਾ, ta, தபலா, te, తబల� ...

udu The udu is a plosive aerophone (in this case implosive) and an idiophone of the Igbo of Nigeria. In the Igbo language, ''ùdù'' means 'vessel'. Actually being a water jug with an additional hole, it was played by Igbo women for ceremonial uses ...

Guest musicians * Blair Masters – string arrangements and orchestration (2, 6) * Carl Gordetzky – conductor (2, 6) *

The Nashville String Machine Nashville String Machine is a musical collective comprising session musicians, based in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. Members of the group have been credited on records dating from 1972 to the present, although the group was formally formed ...

– strings (2, 6) *

Sandra McCracken Sandra Marie McCracken Work ID: 886831052 ISWC: T9140398330 (born June 16, 1977) is an independent singer-songwriter. She currently resides in Nashville, Tennessee. Drawing from folk, gospel, and hymn traditions, her music often weaves together ...

– backing vocals (3), acoustic guitar (12) * Aaron Senseman – backing vocals (9) * Paul Moak – electric guitar (10) Production * Caedmon's Call – producers * Joshua Moore – producer, additional recording * Ben Wisch – producer, recording (2-9, 11, 12), mixing (2-12) *

Robert Beeson Robert Beeson is a music executive. He founded Essential Records in 1992, home to artists Jars of Clay and Third Day, along with Caedmon's Call, Bebo Norman and FFH. He also created the City On a Hill series. He became Senior VP A&R for Provid ...

– executive producer * Bob Wohler – executive producer * David Hall – recording (1, 10, 13) * Donnie Boutwell – additional recording, assistant engineer * Bob Boyd – additional recording, mixing (1, 13), mastering at Ambient Digital, Houston, Texas * Bryan Graban – assistant engineer * Greg Lawrence – assistant engineer * Leslie Richter – assistant engineer * Christie Bragg – production coordinator * Michelle Pearson – production coordinator * Tim Parker – art direction, design, photography * David Perry – cover photography * Ron Roark – photography * David Dobson – photography *

Ocean Way Ocean Way Recording was a series of recording studios established by recording engineer and producer Allen Sides with locations in Los Angeles, California, Nashville, Tennessee, and Saint Barthélemy. Ocean Way Recording no longer operates record ...

, Nashville, Tennessee – recording location * Emerald Masterfonics, Nashville, Tennessee – recording location * Sixteenth Avenue Sound, Nashville, Tennessee – recording location * Second Studios, Houston, Texas – recording location * Joshmooreownsthis Studio, Houston, Texas – recording location * Mixed at Red House Sound, New York City – mixing location * Emerald Entertainment, Nashville, Tennessee – mixing location * Ambient Digital, Houston, Texas – mixing location

Release details

* 2003, US, Essential records 83061-0694-2, Release Date February 4, 2003, CD

References

Caedmon's Call albums 2003 albums Essential Records (Christian) albums {{2000s-Christian-rock-album-stub