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''Find Your Own Way Home'' is the fifteenth
studio album An album is a collection of audio recordings issued on compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl, audio tape, or another medium such as Digital distribution#Music, digital distribution. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early ...
by
REO Speedwagon REO Speedwagon (originally stylized as R.E.O. Speedwagon) is an American rock band from Champaign, Illinois. Formed in 1967, the band cultivated a following during the 1970s and achieved significant commercial success throughout the 1980s. The ...
. It was produced by
Joe Vannelli Joe Vannelli (born 28 December 1950) is a Canadian musician, composer and record producer. He was credited on most records of his brother, Gino Vannelli, and in collaboration with youngest brother Ross Vannelli, the three have won many awards. V ...
and
Kevin Cronin Kevin Patrick Cronin (born October 6, 1951) is an American singer and songwriter, who is the lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist, and pianist for the rock band REO Speedwagon. The band had several hits on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 throughout the ...
and was released in 2007 by Speedwagon Recordings and
Mailboat Records Mailboat Records is an independent record label established in 1999 by American singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett after his vanity label Margaritaville Records was absorbed by Island Records when they were sold to Universal Music Group, owner of B ...
. The album came eleven years after the band's previous studio album, ''
Building the Bridge ''Building the Bridge'' is the fourteenth studio album by REO Speedwagon. It became the group's first non-charting album since 1972's '' R.E.O./T.W.O.''. This is the only studio album by the band not in the ITunes Store, though the title track i ...
''. 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 Adult contemporary music (AC) is a form of radio-played popular music, ranging from 1960s vocal and 1970s soft rock music to predominantly ballad-heavy music of the present day, with varying degrees of easy listening, pop, soul, R&B, quie ...
Chart''. 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.


Track listing


Find Your Own Way Home

(+) Previously unreleased acoustic versions


XM Artist Confidential DVD


Hi Infidelity Then Again...Live


Personnel

REO Speedwagon *
Kevin Cronin Kevin Patrick Cronin (born October 6, 1951) is an American singer and songwriter, who is the lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist, and pianist for the rock band REO Speedwagon. The band had several hits on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 throughout the ...
– lead vocals (1-8, 10), backing vocals, acoustic guitar, rhythm guitars *
Dave Amato David Paul Amato (born March 3, 1953) is an American musician, best known as the lead guitarist of the rock band REO Speedwagon since May 1989. Early years He was born and raised near Framingham, Massachusetts. At age 11, his first band wa ...
– lead guitars, electric guitars, backing vocals *
Neal Doughty Neal Allan Doughty (born July 29, 1946, in Evansville, Indiana) is an American keyboardist, best known as a founding member of the rock band REO Speedwagon and the only member to have played on every album. He formed the band in fall 1967, with o ...
– synthesizers,
Hammond 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 to vary sounds. Until 1975, Hammond organs generated s ...
(1) * Bruce Hall – bass, backing vocals, lead vocals (9) *
Bryan Hitt Bryan Keith Hitt (born January 5, 1954, Center, Texas) is an American rock drummer who is currently drumming for the band REO Speedwagon. Hitt was born in Wooster, Ohio on January 5, 1954. Prior to his involvement with REO Speedwagon, Hitt pla ...
– drums, percussion Additional personnel *
Joe Vannelli Joe Vannelli (born 28 December 1950) is a Canadian musician, composer and record producer. He was credited on most records of his brother, Gino Vannelli, and in collaboration with youngest brother Ross Vannelli, the three have won many awards. V ...
– 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


References

{{Authority control REO Speedwagon albums 2007 albums Mailboat Records albums Albums produced by Kevin Cronin