Somewhere Down the Road (album)

Somewhere Down the Road
Studio album by
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
Allmusic
Christian Music Review(8.8/10)
Christianity Today
Jesus Freak Hideout

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.

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. One of the songs on the album, "Overnight", is a duet recorded with Sarah Chapman, Grant's daughter. Grant wrote "Unafraid" about her mother.

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).