Love Is Strange (album)

For the Jackson Browne/David Lindley album, see Love Is Strange: En Vivo Con Tino.

Love Is Strange
Studio album by Kenny Rogers
Released	September 11, 1990
Recorded	1990
Studio	The Loft, Digital Recorders and Sixteenth Avenue Sound (Nashville, Tennessee) The Castle (Franklin, Tennessee)
Genre	Country
Length	38:17
Label	Reprise
Producer	Jim Ed Norman Eric Prestidge
Kenny Rogers chronology
Christmas In America (1989) Love Is Strange (1990) Back Home Again (1991)

Love Is Strange is the twenty-third studio album by American country music artist Kenny Rogers. It was released on September 11, 1990, by Reprise Records. The album includes the single "Love Is Strange", which charted at number 21 on Hot Country Songs that same year. ^[1]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Love Is Strange" (duet with Dolly Parton)	Mickey Baker, Ellas McDaniel, Sylvia Robinson	3:27
2.	"Soldier of Love"	Richard "Spady" Brannan, Anthony Crawford, David Malloy	2:50
3.	"Listen to the Rain"	Skip Ewing, Don Sampson	3:34
4.	"If I Were a Painting"	Ewing, Sampson	3:44
5.	"Crazy in Love"	Randy McCormick, Even Stevens	4:18
6.	"Lay My Body Down"	Joe Henry, Bob Morrison	4:05
7.	"So Little Love in the World"	Michael Smotherman	4:17
8.	"Walk Away"	Bob Carpenter, Tom Kell	4:39
9.	"In Our Old Age"	Chaz Bosarge, Randy Hardison, Paul Hollowell	3:55
10.	"What I Did for Love"	Brent Maher, Thom Schuyler	3:28

Personnel

From Love Is Strange liner notes. ^[2]

• Kenny Rogers – lead vocals
• Matt Rollings – electric piano (1-3, 5, 6, 9), acoustic piano (4, 5, 7)
• Mike Lawler – synthesizers (1-5, 10)
• Phil Naish – synthesizers (1-3, 5-10)
• Larry Byrom – electric guitar (1), mandolin (2), acoustic guitar (3, 10)
• Steve Gibson – electric guitar (1, 2, 4-9), acoustic guitar (3, 7, 9, 10), mandolin (3, 10), gut-string guitar solo (3), sitar (10)
• John Hug – electric guitar (3), acoustic guitar (4-6, 9, 10)
• Bernie Leadon – acoustic guitar (3), mandola (4, 8), mandolin (10)
• Glenn Worf – bass (1, 2, 6, 8, 10)
• Michael Rhodes – bass (3-5, 9)
• Joe Chemay – bass (7)
• Paul Leim – drums (1, 2, 6, 7, 10), percussion (6, 8, 10)
• Eddie Bayers – drums (3, 5, 9)
• Terry McMillan – percussion (1, 2, 10)
• Jimmy Mattingly – fiddle (4)
• Bobby Taylor – English horn (5), oboe (8)
• Bergen White – string arrangements and conductor (4, 8)
• Carl Gorodetzky – concertmaster and contractor (4, 8)
• The Nashville String Machine – orchestra (4, 8)
• Chris Harris – backing vocals (1-9)
• Mark Heimermann – backing vocals (1-9)
• Gary Janney – backing vocals (1-9), harmony vocals (6, 10)
• Dolly Parton – lead vocals (1)
• Vince Gill – backing vocals (2, 10)
• Jim Photoglo – backing vocals (2, 10)
• Harry Stinson – backing vocals (2, 10)
• Jim "Val" Valentini – harmony vocals (2)
• Jennifer O'Brien-Enoch – soprano vocals (4)

Production

• Jim Ed Norman – producer
• Eric Prestidge – producer, engineer, mixing, mastering
• Robert Tassi – assistant engineer
• Jim "Val" Valentini – assistant engineer
• Craig Hansen – additional engineer
• Daniel Johnston – additional engineer
• John Kunz – additional engineer
• John David Parker – additional engineer
• Keith Odle – digital multitrack editing at GroundStar Laboratories (Nashville, Tennessee)
• Glenn Meadows – mastering
• Masterfonics (Nashville, Tennessee) – mastering location
• Daniel Kee – production assistant
• Laura LiPuma – art direction
• Heather Horne – design
• Bernard Boudreau – photography
• Ken Kragen – management

Chart performance

Chart (1990)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums	21
Australian (ARIA Charts) Albums	155 [3]

Singles

Love Is Strange is home to three singles. The title cut, a duet with Dolly Parton, debuted first and made it to number 21 in the U.S. and number 14 in Canada. The follow-up single, released in 1990, was "Lay My Body Down", which reached number 69 in the U.S. but did not chart in Canada. The final single, "What I Did For Love", written by Brent Maher and Tom Schuyler, did the opposite, charting only in Canada, peaking at number 81.

References

1. Joel Whitburn (2017). Joel Whitburn's Top Country Singles 1944-2017. Record Research, Inc. pp. 310–311. ISBN   978-0-89820-229-8.
2. Love Is Strange (CD insert). Kenny Rogers. Reprise Records. 1990. 26289-2.
3. "Kenny Rogers ARIA chart history, received March 31, 2020". Imgur.com. Retrieved April 11, 2020. N.B. The High Point number in the NAT column indicates the release's peak on the national chart.