Love Is Strange (album)

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

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Love Is Strange is the twenty-third studio album by country music superstar Kenny Rogers.

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"	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"	Skip Ewing, Don 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"	Micheal 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

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

Production

• Producers – Jim Ed Norman and Eric Prestidge
• Production Assistant – Daniel Kee
• Engineered and Mixed by Eric Prestidge
• Assistant Engineers – Robert Tassi and James "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

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.