Drive You Home Again is an album by American singer/songwriter Chris Smither, released in 1999.

Drive You Home Again
Studio album by Chris Smither
Released	May 16, 1999
Recorded	December 2–17, 1998
Genre	Blues, folk
Length	46:17
Label	HighTone
Producer	Stephen Bruton
Chris Smither chronology
Small Revelations (1997) Drive You Home Again (1999) Live as I'll Ever Be (2000)

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Robert Christgau	A− [2]
Tom Hull	B[3]
Rolling Stone	[4]

Writing for Allmusic, critic Jeff Burger wrote of the album "Smither's gravelly, instantly recognizable voice is a perfect fit for his pensive, sharply honed lyrics and his blues and folk-based music... Like Nick Drake and the Van Morrison of Astral Weeks days, Smither makes you feel as if you're in a dream. You may not want to wake up for a while."[1] Music critic Robert Christgau wrote of the album "...you'd never suspect he was a moral philosopher. But in fact he is that even rarer thing, a moral philosopher with good values, and here his songwriting takes over a career marked by killer covers... he thinks on his butt while keeping the beat with his foot. He's worth attending even if you think blues are history."[2]

Track listing

All songs by Chris Smither unless otherwise noted.

1. "Drive You Home Again" – 5:28
2. "Tell Me Why You Love Me" – 3:55
3. "No Love Today" – 4:57
4. "Hey, Hey, Hey" – 4:04
5. "Get a Better One" – 5:22
6. "Hold On II " – 3:24
7. "So Long" – 4:48
8. "Duncan & Brady" (Traditional)– 3:52
9. "Steel Guitar" (Danny O'Keefe) – 3:38
10. "Don't Make Promises" (Tim Hardin) – 3:25
11. "Rattlesnake Preacher" (Eric Von Schmidt) – 3:24

Personnel

• Chris Smither – vocals, guitar
• Joel Jose Guzman - Accordion, keyboards, melodica
• John Mills - saxophone
• Marty Muse - pedal steel guitar
• Chris Maresh - bass
• Mickey Raphael - harmonica
• Raul Rodriguez - tuba
• Brannen Temple - drums, percussion
• Malford Milligan - background vocals

Production

• Produced by Stephen Bruton
• Mixed by Chet Himes
• Engineered by Jay Hudson
• Mastered by Jerry Tubb

References