Finding My Way Back Home
{{Infobox song
| name = Finding My Way Back Home
| cover = Lee Ann Womack--Finding My Way Back Home.jpg
| type = single
| artist = Lee Ann Womack
| released = {{Start date|2006|08|15}}
| genre = {{hlist|Country|contemporary country}}{{cite web |title="Finding My Way Back Home": Lee Ann Womack: Releases |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/finding-my-way-back-home-mw0001704140/releases |website=Allmusic |access-date=28 February 2021}}
| length = {{duration|m=3|s=44}}
| label = Mercury Nashville
| writer = {{hlist|Chris Stapleton|Craig Wiseman}}
| producer = Byron Gallimore
| prev_title = Twenty Years and Two Husbands Ago
| prev_year = 2005
| next_title = Last Call
| next_year = 2008
}}
"Finding My Way Back Home" is a song written by Chris Stapleton and Craig Wiseman, and recorded American country music artist Lee Ann Womack. It was released as single in August 2006 and was produced by Byron Gallimore. The song would later becoming a charting country single. Despite the single's release, the song did not appear on an official album and Womack would later leave her record label.
Background and content
Lee Ann Womack had several years of country music success in the 2000s with songs like "I Hope You Dance" and "Mendocino County Line."{{cite web |last1=Erlewine |first1=Stephen Thomas |title=Lee Ann Womack: Biography & History |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/lee-ann-womack-mn0000194063/biography |website=Allmusic |access-date=28 February 2021}} "Finding My Way Back Home" was Womack's first recording with Mercury Records Nashville. She was moved to the label imprint after many years of recording for MCA Records Nashville.{{cite magazine |last1=Jessen |first1=Wade |title=Label Change Puts Womack in Fast Lane |magazine=Billboard |date=August 19, 2006 |volume=118 |issue=33 |page=51 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pQ0EAAAAMBAJ&q=lee+ann+womack+%22finding+my+way+back+home%22&pg=PA51 |access-date=28 February 2021}} According to a statement released by UMG Nashville, Womack was moved to Mercury so that the company could "even out the label rosters."{{cite web |last1=Cantwell |first1=David |title=Lee Ann Womack Returns to the Roots She Never (Really) Left |url=https://www.nodepression.com/lee-ann-womack-returns-to-the-roots-she-never-really-left/ |website=No Depression |access-date=28 February 2021}} "Finding My Way Back Home" was written by Chris Stapleton and Craig Wiseman. It was produced by Byron Gallimore.{{cite journal |last1=Womack |first1=Lee Ann |title="Finding My Way Back Home" (CD Promotional Single Sleeve and Notes) |journal=Mercury Records Nashville |date=August 15, 2006 |id=ID not available}}
Release and reception
"Finding My Way Back Home" was released as a single via Mercury Records Nashville on August 15, 2006.{{cite book|last=Whitburn|first=Joel|title=Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008|publisher=Record Research, Inc.|year=2008|isbn=978-0-89820-177-2}} Upon its release, the song has over one million "audience impressions," according to Billboard. This audience reception prompted the single to debut at number 46 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, her highest-debuting single up to that point.
It spent a total of 14 weeks on the country songs chart and reached number 37 in October 2006.{{cite magazine |title="Finding My Way Back Home" chart history |url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/lee-ann-womack/chart-history/csi/ |magazine=Billboard |access-date=1 March 2021}} According to another article from Billboard, Womack was expected to release a new album through Mercury Records with the song included. However, the album's release was "tentative" was put on hold until early 2007.{{cite magazine |last1=Stark |first1=Phyllis |title=Country Racks Up Solid First-Half Sales |magazine=Billboard |date=August 5, 2006 |volume=118 |issue=31 |page=46 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jA0EAAAAMBAJ&q=lee+ann+womack+signs+with+mercury+records+2006&pg=PA46 |access-date=1 March 2021}} In 2007, Womack was moved back to MCA Records Nashville and the although the album was recorded, it was not released.
"Finding My Way Back Home" received mixed reviews from critics. David Cantwell of No Depression called the song's production to evoke an "island groove" that was also "pedal steel guitar-based." Kevin John Coyne of Country Universe called it a "stopgap single."{{cite web |last1=Coyne |first1=Kevin John |title=100 Greatest Women of Country Music -- Lee Ann Womack (#16) |url=http://www.countryuniverse.net/2018/09/09/100-greatest-women-16-lee-ann-womack/ |website=Country Universe |access-date=28 February 2021}}
Track listings
CD single{{cite web |title=Lee Ann Womack -- "Finding My Way Back Home" (2006, CD Single) |url=https://www.discogs.com/Lee-Ann-Womack-Finding-My-Way-Back-Home/release/10254776 |website=Discogs |access-date=1 March 2021}}
- "Finding My Way Back Home" (album version) – 3:39
- "Finding My Way Back Home" (radio edit) – 3:33
Digital single{{cite web |title="Finding My Way Back Home" by Lee Ann Womack |url=https://music.apple.com/us/album/finding-my-way-back-home-single/1445318707 |website=Apple Music |access-date=1 March 2021}}
- "Finding My Way Back Home" – 3:43
Charts
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| scope="col"| Chart (2006)
! scope="col"| Peak |
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| {{single chart|Billboardcountrysongs|37|artist=Lee Ann Womack|rowheader=true|accessdate=March 1, 2021}} |
References
{{Reflist}}
{{Lee Ann Womack singles}}
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Category:Mercury Records singles
Category:Song recordings produced by Byron Gallimore