Love Is Strange (album)

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Love Is Strange
Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 11, 1990
Recorded1990
GenreCountry
Length38:17
LabelReprise
ProducerJim Ed Norman
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.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."
Ellas McDaniel, Sylvia Robinson
3:27
2."Soldier of Love"Richard "Spady" Brannan, Anthony Crawford, David Malloy2:50
3."Listen to the Rain"Skip Ewing, Don Sampson3:34
4."If I Were a Painting"Ewing, Sampson3:44
5."Crazy in Love"Randy McCormick, Even Stevens4:18
6."Lay My Body Down"Joe Henry, Bob Morrison4:05
7."So Little Love in the World"Michael Smotherman4:17
8."Walk Away"Bob Carpenter, Tom Kell4:39
9."In Our Old Age"Chaz Bosarge, Randy Hardison, Paul Hollowell3:55
10."What I Did for Love"Brent Maher, Thom Schuyler3:28

Personnel

From Love Is Strange liner notes.[2]

Production

  • Producers – Jim Ed Norman and Eric Prestidge
  • Production Assistant – Daniel Kee
  • Engineered and Mixed by Eric Prestidge
  • Assistant Engineers – Robert Tassi and Jim "Val" Valentini
  • Additional Engineers – Craig Hansen, Daniel Johnston, John Kunz and John David Parker.
  • Recorded at The Loft, Digital Recorders and 16th Avenue Sound (Nashville, TN).
  • Mixed at The Loft (Nashville, TN) and The Castle (Franklin, TN).
  • Digital Multitrack Editing by Keith Odle at GroundStar Laboratories (Nashville, TN).
  • Mastered by Glenn Meadows and Eric Prestidge at Masterfonics (Nashville, TN).
  • Art Direction – Laura LiPuma
  • Design – Heather Horne
  • Photography – Bernard Boudreau
  • Management – Ken Kragen

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

Tom Schuyler
, did the opposite, charting only in Canada, peaking at number 81.

References

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  2. ^ Love Is Strange (CD insert). Kenny Rogers. Reprise Records. 1990. 26289-2.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  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.