Ride Me Back Home

Ride Me Back Home is the 69th solo studio album by American country music singer-songwriter Willie Nelson. It was released on June 21, 2019, by Legacy Recordings.^[2] Its title track earned Nelson his ninth Grammy Award, winning in the category Best Country Solo Performance.^[3]

Ride Me Back Home
Studio album by Willie Nelson
Released	June 21, 2019
Genre	Country
Length	43:20
Label	Legacy
Producer	Buddy Cannon
Willie Nelson chronology
My Way (2018) Ride Me Back Home (2019) First Rose of Spring (2020)
Singles from Ride Me Back Home
"Ride Me Back Home" Released: April 26, 2019 "My Favorite Picture of You" Released: May 17, 2019 "Come on Time" Released: May 31, 2019 "It's Hard to Be Humble" Released: June 14, 2019 "Immigrant Eyes" Released: June 24, 2019 "Seven Year Itch" Released: June 27, 2019

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	77/100[1]
Review scores
Source	Rating

Background

During an interview on Sirius XM Satellite Radio, aired on April 13, 2019 Nelson announced the release of the album. The material consists mostly of original writings by producer Buddy Cannon and Nelson. Meanwhile, the title track was written by Sonny Throckmorton.^[4] Nelson decided to record "Ride Me Back Home" for his own advocacy for horses. On Cannon's suggestion, a revisited version of "Stay Away from Lonely Places" from 1972's The Words Don't Fit the Picture was included.^[5]

The first single, its title track, was released on April 26, 2019. Ride Me Back Home completed the "Mortality Trilogy" of Nelson, complementing God's Problem Child and Last Man Standing.^[6]

Commercial performance

Ride Me Back Home debuted at No. 2 on Billboard's Top Country Albums with 19,000 album equivalent units.^[7] The album has sold 58,900 copies in the United States as of March 2020.^[8]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Ride Me Back Home"	Lucinda Hinton Joe Manual Debby Throckmorton Sonny Throckmorton	3:35
2.	"Come on Time"	Nelson Buddy Cannon	2:55
3.	"My Favorite Picture of You"	Guy Clark	3:55
4.	"Seven Year Itch"	Nelson Cannon	3:23
5.	"Immigrant Eyes"	Clark	4:34
6.	"Stay Away from Lonely Places"	Nelson Don Bowman	3:59
7.	"Just the Way You Are"	Billy Joel	4:35
8.	"One More Song to Write"	Nelson Cannon	3:56
9.	"Nobody's Listening"	Skip Denenberg; Dan “Bee” Spears	4:51
10.	"It's Hard to Be Humble" (with Lukas Nelson and Micah Nelson)	Mac Davis	3:47
11.	"Maybe I Should've Been Listening"	Buzz Rabin	3:50
Total length:			43:20

Charts

Weekly charts Chart (2019) Peak position Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[9] 18 German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[10] 54 Scottish Albums (OCC)[11] 18 Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[12] 18 US Billboard 200[13] 18 US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[14] 2

Year-end charts Chart (2019) Position US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[15] 97