If We Ever Make It Home
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{{Infobox album
| name = If We Ever Make It Home
| type = studio
| artist = Wade Bowen
| cover = wbiwemih.jpg
| alt =
| released = September 30, 2008
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| genre = Red Dirt, Texas Country
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| label = Sustain Records
| producer = J.R. Rodriguez
| prev_title = Lost Hotel
| prev_year = 2006
| next_title = Live at Billy Bob's Texas
| next_year = 2010
}}
If We Ever Make It Home is Wade Bowen's third studio album. It was released in the fall of 2008. The album captures the emotion Bowen's wife's battle with post-partum depression.{{cite news |title=If We Ever Make It Home on Roughstock.com |url=http://www.roughstock.com/reviews/wade-bowen-if-we-ever-make-it-home |access-date=2009-10-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081202075600/http://www.roughstock.com/reviews/wade-bowen-if-we-ever-make-it-home |archive-date=2008-12-02 |url-status=dead }} The song "Daddy and the Devil" features the vocals of singer/songwriter Chris Knight. The album's second single, "Trouble," is the second of Bowen's songs to have a music video, which was directed by Evan Kaufmann.{{cite news |title= Trouble Music Video |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAJo34pPTO0 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211220/CAJo34pPTO0 |archive-date=2021-12-20 |url-status=live}}{{cbignore}}
Track listing
- "You Had Me At My Best" (Wade Bowen, Jedd Hughes) – 4:17
- "If We Ever Make It Home" (Bowen, Jim Beavers) – 4:08
- "Turn On The Lights" (Bowen, Stephony Smith) – 3:51
- "Ghost In This Town" (Bowen, Michael Cox) – 3:56
- "Why Makes Perfect Sense" (Bowen, Randy Rogers) – 5:15
- "Trouble" (Bowen, Clint Ingersoll) – 4:01
- "Nobody's Fool" (Bowen, Rogers) – 3:36
- "Into The Arms Of You" (Sean McConnell) – 4:18
- "From Bad To Good" (Bowen, Radney Foster) – 4:01
- "Missing You" (Matt Powell) – 3:38
- "Daddy And The Devil" (ft. Chris Knight) (Chuck Cannon, Chuck Jones, Tom Bukovac) – 3:44
- "Somewhere Beautiful" (McConnell) – 5:04
Personnel
- Drums – Shawn Fitcher
- Bass guitar – David Santos
- Electric guitar – David Grissom, Jedd Hughes, Tom Bukovac, Kenny Greenberg, Greg V.
- Acoustic guitar – Ilya Toshinsky, Jedd Hughes, Tom Bukovac, Greg V.
- Steel guitar, lap steel guitar – Dan Dugmore
- Mandolin – Aubrey Haynie
- Percussion – Eric Darken
- Keyboards – Charlie Judge, Tim Lauer, J.R. Rodriguez
- Piano, accordion, B3 organ – Charlie Judge
- Pump organ – Tim Lauer
- Lead vocals – Wade Bowen
- Background vocals – Jedd Hughes, Emily Francis, Sonya Isaacs, Ashley Monroe, Melodie Crittenden, Wes Hightower, Russell Terrell, J.R. Rodriguez
- Guest vocals – Chris Knight on "Daddy and the Devil"
Chart performance
| class="wikitable"
! Chart (2008) ! Peak |
| U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums
| align="center"| 29 |
| U.S. Billboard 200
| align="center"| 176 |
| U.S. Billboard Top Heatseekers
| align="center"| 2 |