Train Home is an album by American

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The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 singer/songwriter Chris Smither

Chris Smither

Chris Smither is an American folk/blues singer, guitarist, and songwriter. His music draws deeply from the blues, American folk music, modern poets and philosophers.-Early life, influences and education:...

, released in 2003. Guest Bonnie Raitt

Bonnie Raitt

Bonnie Lynn Raitt is an American blues singer-songwriter and a renowned slide guitar player. During the 1970s, Raitt released a series of acclaimed roots-influenced albums which incorporated elements of blues, rock, folk and country, but she is perhaps best known for her more commercially...

 provides slide guitar and backup vocals on "Desolation Row".

Reception

Writing for Allmusic, critic Hal Horowitz called the release "a quiet gem" and wrote of the album "Chris Smither settles into his distinctive combination of folk and blues with this excellent release. Although not pushing established boundaries, his rich, velvety voice and mature spoken-sung vocals convey a sense of truth and add depth to these introspective compositions." Music critic Robert Christgau

Robert Christgau

Robert Christgau is an American essayist, music journalist, and self-proclaimed "Dean of American Rock Critics".One of the earliest professional rock critics, Christgau is known for his terse capsule reviews, published since 1969 in his Consumer Guide columns...

 gave the album a choice cut for "Let It Go".

Track listing

All songs by Chris Smither unless otherwise noted.

1. "Train Home" – 4:12
2. "Outside In" – 4:11
3. "Confirmation" – 4:05
4. "Crocodile Man" (Dave Carter) – 3:33
5. "Lola" - 3:27
6. "Desolation Row
   Desolation Row
   "Desolation Row" is a 1965 song written and sung by Bob Dylan. It was recorded on August 4, 1965, and was released as the closing track of Dylan's sixth studio album, Highway 61 Revisited...
   
   " (Bob Dylan
   Bob Dylan
   Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...
   
   ) – 7:45
7. "Call Time" – 3:35
8. "Candy Man" (Mississippi John Hurt
   Mississippi John Hurt
   John Smith Hurt, better known as Mississippi John Hurt was an American country blues singer and guitarist.Raised in Avalon, Mississippi, Hurt taught himself how to play the guitar around age nine...
   
   ) – 3:37
9. "Never Needed It More" – 3:17
10. "Let It Go" (Public Domain) – 4:33
11. "Kind Woman" (Richie Furay
    Richie Furay
    Richie Furay is an American singer, songwriter, and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame member who is best known for forming the bands Buffalo Springfield with Stephen Stills, Neil Young, Bruce Palmer, and Dewey Martin, and Poco with Jim Messina, Rusty Young, George Grantham and Randy Meisner...
    
    ) - 3:50

Personnel

• Chris Smither – vocals, guitar
• David "Goody" Goodrich - guitar, banjo, bass, mandolin, piano, slide guitar, reed organ
• Richard Downs - horn
• Mike Piehl - drums
• Bonnie Raitt
  Bonnie Raitt
  Bonnie Lynn Raitt is an American blues singer-songwriter and a renowned slide guitar player. During the 1970s, Raitt released a series of acclaimed roots-influenced albums which incorporated elements of blues, rock, folk and country, but she is perhaps best known for her more commercially...
  
  - background vocals, slide guitar
• Louise Ulrich - bass
• Anita Suhanin - background vocals

Production

• Produced by David "Goody" Goodrich
• Mastered by Bob St. John
• Engineered and mixed by Mark Thayer
• Design by Jason Kruppa
• Photography by Thomas Petillo & Abigail Seymour