''The Long Way'' is the ninth studio album released by American

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artist

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. It was his only release for the

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label, and its only single ("POW 369", also recorded by Darryl Worley on his 2002 album ''

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'') failed to enter the ''

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'' country music charts. The album's last three tracks are new re-recordings of songs previously included on Stone's earlier albums: "More Love" from the 1994 album of the same name, "Born in the Dark" from 1995's ''

Faith in Me, Faith in You ''Faith in Me, Faith in You'' is the seventh studio album released by American country music artist Doug Stone. It was his only album for Columbia Records after leaving Epic Records' roster in 1995. Although this album produced three singles — ...

'', and "I'd Be Better Off (In a Pine Box)" from his 1991 self-titled debut album.

Track listing

#"I'm Losing You" (Monty Criswell, Tim Schoepf) – 3:19 #"The Long Way" (Criswell, Billy Yates) – 3:43 #"One Heartache at a Time" ( Gary Burr,

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) – 3:53 #"Poor Man's Blvd." (Doug Stone, Chet Hinesley) – 3:41 #"POW 369" (Steven Dale Jones) – 3:26 #"Bone Dry" (Will Robinson,

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) – 3:27 #"Lying to Myself" (Stone, Scott Shevel, Jimmy Devine, Lisa Zanghi) – 4:10 #" More Love" (Burr, Stone) – 3:25 #"

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" (Hinesley) – 2:54 #"

I'd Be Better Off (In a Pine Box) "I'd Be Better Off (In a Pine Box)" is a debut song written by Johnny MacRae and Steve Clark, and recorded by American country music artist Doug Stone. It was released in February 1990 as the first single from his self titled debut album. It peake ...

" (Steve Clark,

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) – 3:24

Personnel

* Mark Beckett -

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* Rick Brothers - drums * Wesley Buttrey - drums * Timotheo Gonzalez -

harmonica The harmonica, also known as a French harp or mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used worldwide in many musical genres, notably in blues, American folk music, classical music, jazz, country, and rock. The many types of harmonica inclu ...

* Buddy Hyatt -

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboa ...

, strings * Dionna Brooks-Jackson - background vocals * Curtis Jay -

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* Mike Johnson -

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, pedabro,

steel guitar A steel guitar ( haw, kīkākila) is any guitar played while moving a steel bar or similar hard object against plucked strings. The bar itself is called a "steel" and is the source of the name "steel guitar". The instrument differs from a conve ...

* Dick Justice -

acoustic guitar An acoustic guitar is a musical instrument in the string family. When a string is plucked its vibration is transmitted from the bridge, resonating throughout the top of the guitar. It is also transmitted to the side and back of the instrument, ...

electric guitar An electric guitar is a guitar that requires external amplification in order to be heard at typical performance volumes, unlike a standard acoustic guitar (however combinations of the two - a semi-acoustic guitar and an electric acoustic gui ...

* Seidina Reed - background vocals * Rusty Van Sickle - background vocals *

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