Love Travels is the ninth studio album released by American country music

Country music

Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...

 singer Kathy Mattea

Kathy Mattea

Kathleen Alice "Kathy" Mattea is an American country music and bluegrass performer who often brings folk, Celtic and traditional country sounds to her music. Active since 1983 as a recording artist, she has recorded seventeen albums and has charted more than thirty singles on the Billboard Hot...

. It was released in 1997 (see 1997 in country music

1997 in country music

This is a list of notable events in country music that took place in the year 1997.-Events:* July 12 — The song, "It's Your Love," by Tim McGraw and Faith Hill becomes the first song in 20 years to spend six weeks atop Billboard magazine Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. The last song to do so...

) as her final album for Mercury Records

Mercury Records

Mercury Records is a record label operating as a standalone company in the UK and as part of the Island Def Jam Motown Music Group in the US; both are subsidiaries of Universal Music Group. There is also a Mercury Records in Australia, which is a local artist and repertoire division of Universal...

, the label to which she had been signed since 1984. Three singles were released from it: "455 Rocket", "I'm on Your Side", and "Love Travels". "455 Rocket" was the highest charting, reaching a peak of #21 on the Billboard

Billboard (magazine)

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country charts, while "Love Travels" was her final Top 40 country entry at #39. Suzy Bogguss

Suzy Bogguss

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 sang background vocals on "Further and Further Away."

Track listing

1. "Love Travels" (Bob Halligan, Jr., Linda Halligan) – 5:31
2. "Sending Me Angels" (Francis John Miller, Jerry Lynn Williams) – 4:16
3. "Patiently Waiting" (Gillian Welch
   Gillian Welch
   Gillian Welch is an American singer-songwriter. She performs with her musical partner, guitarist David Rawlings. Their sparse and dark musical style, which combines elements of Appalachian music, Bluegrass, and Americana, is described by The New Yorker as "at once innovative and obliquely...
   
   ) – 5:05
4. "If That's What You Call Love" (Lionel Cartwright
   Lionel Cartwright
   Lionel Cartwright is an American country music artist. Between 1988 and 1992, Cartwright charted twelve singles on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts, including a Number One single in 1991's "Leap of Faith"...
   
   ) – 4:30
5. "Further and Further Away" (Cheryl Wheeler
   Cheryl Wheeler
   Cheryl Wheeler is an American singer-songwriter of contemporary folk music, based in New England. To date, she has recorded several folk albums, and has toured extensively throughout the United States....
   
   ) – 4:32
6. "455 Rocket" (David Rawlings
   David Rawlings
   David Todd Rawlings is a professional guitarist and singer. He is best known as the longtime musical partner of bluegrass singer-songwriter Gillian Welch.David attended the Berklee College of Music and studied with guitar professor Lauren Passarelli....
   
   , Welch) – 4:09
7. "I'm on Your Side" (Jim Lauderdale
   Jim Lauderdale
   Jim Lauderdale is a musician & singer-songwriter who performs bluegrass and country music. He has recorded since 1986 and has released nineteen studio albums. Artists who have recorded his material include George Strait and Patty Loveless.-Biography:...
   
   ) – 3:10
8. "The Bridge" (Jim Pittman, Tom Kimmel
   Tom Kimmel
   Tom Kimmel , is an American singer-songwriter and poet.Tom Kimmel grew up largely in small towns in south Alabama...
   
   ) – 3:26
9. "All Roads to the River" (Janis Ian
   Janis Ian
   Janis Ian is an American songwriter, singer, musician, columnist, and science fiction author. Ian first entered the folk music scene while still a teenager in the mid-sixties; most active musically in that decade and the 1970s, she has continued recording into the 21st century...
   
   , Jon Vezner) – 3:17
10. "The End of the Line" (Kye Fleming, Mark Stephen Cawley, Mary Ann Kennedy
    Mary Ann Kennedy (singer)
    Mary Ann Kennedy is an American country music songwriter. In her career, she has been a member of the groups Calamity Jane and Kennedy Rose, both times pairing with fellow songwriter Pam Rose. Kennedy's co-writing credits include the Grammy Award-nominated songs "Ring on Her Finger, Time on Her...
    
    ) – 4:29
11. "Beautiful Fool" (Don Henry) – 4:52

Chart performance

Chart (1997)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums	15
U.S. Billboard 200	121