Somewhere Down the Road (album)

Somewhere Down the Road
Studio album by
Amy Grant
ReleasedMarch 30, 2010
Studio
  • Glomo Studio (Franklin, Tennessee)
  • The Fertle Turtle, The House, Vibe 56 and Casa De Ted (Nashville, Tennessee)
  • The Village Recorder (Los Angeles, California)
  • The Village (Santa Monica, California)
GenreGospel, contemporary Christian music
Length46:46
LabelEMI CMG/Sparrow
Producer
Amy Grant chronology
The Christmas Collection
(2008) 		Somewhere Down the Road
(2010) 		How Mercy Looks from Here
(2013)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
About.com [1]
Allmusic [2]
Christian Music Review(8.8/10) [3]
Christianity Today [4]
Jesus Freak Hideout [5]

Somewhere Down the Road is the seventeenth studio album by Christian music and pop music singer-songwriter Amy Grant, released in 2010. It is a unique album featuring eight new songs, a new recording of the song "Arms of Love", from her 1982 album Age to Age, and rounded out with three of Grant's previously released story-songs.

The album title is taken from the title track, "Somewhere Down the Road" also a promotional single from Grant's 1997 album Behind the Eyes. The song was originally also featured on the first and only commercial single from Behind the Eyes, "Takes a Little Time". The painting featured on the cover of the album includes a painting by Grant, with the inscription Somewhere Down the Road. Grant gave the original painting as a gift to her friend and publicist Jennifer Cooke.[6]

Most of the new songs on the album were recorded in the new studio that Grant and her husband Vince Gill recently had built into their home.[7] One of the songs on the album, "Overnight", is a duet recorded with Sarah Chapman, Grant's daughter. Grant wrote "Unafraid" about her mother.[8]

Roughly one year after the original release of the album a digital-only expanded edition of the album was released with additional material. The expanded edition includes the video for "Better Than a Hallelujah", the first single from the album, as well as an Ambient Mix of the song. Also included on the expanded edition is a cover of the Pete Seeger song "Turn, Turn, Turn" and two remixes of the song "Overnight" (the Aircandy Mix and the Dyna Mix).

  1. ^ Jones, Kim. "Amy Grant – Somewhere Down The Road – CD Review of Amy Grant's Somewhere Down The Road". About.com. Archived from the original on 31 October 2011. Retrieved 30 November 2011.
  2. ^ Stephen Thomas Erlewine. "Somewhere Down the Road". Allmusic. Retrieved January 11, 2012.
  3. ^ Christian Music Review (2010-03-23). "Amy Grant [Somewhere Down The Road] (2010)". Christianmusicreview.org. Retrieved 2012-01-12.
  4. ^ Released March 2010Andrew Greer. "Somewhere Down the Road | Music". Christianity Today. Retrieved 2012-01-12.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  5. ^ "Amy Grant, "Somewhere Down The Road" Review". Jesusfreakhideout.com. 2010-03-30. Retrieved 2012-01-12.
  6. ^ [1][dead link]
  7. ^ "Amy Grant releases first new songs since 2003". Reuters. March 27, 2010.
  8. ^ "Come Into the World". Songfacts.com. Retrieved 2010-04-06.