Back Home Again (Kenny Rogers album)
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Back Home Again is a 1991 album by country music superstar Kenny Rogers
Kenny Rogers
Kenneth Donald "Kenny" Rogers is an American singer-songwriter, photographer, record producer, actor, and entrepreneur...

.

Overview

Back Home Again marks the last of Rogers' albums with Reprise
Reprise
Reprise is a fundamental device in the history of art. In literature, a reprise consists of the rewriting of another work; in music, a reprise is the repetition or reiteration of the opening material later in a composition as occurs in the recapitulation of sonata form, though—originally in the...

, and marks the beginning of Rogers' movement between various labels, including his own future upcoming label, Dreamcatcher Records, in years to come.

Of the Reprise albums, this one had the worst chart showing. The album only reached number 42 on the U.S. Country charts and is Rogers' second consecutive album to not attain any certifications from the RIAA. The success of newer artists such as Garth Brooks
Garth Brooks
Troyal Garth Brooks , best known as Garth Brooks, is an American country music artist who helped make country music a worldwide phenomenon. His eponymous first album was released in 1989 and peaked at number 2 in the US country album chart while climbing to number 13 on the Billboard 200 album chart...

, Clint Black
Clint Black
Clint Patrick Black is an American country music singer-songwriter, record producer, multi-instrumentalist and occasional actor. Signed to RCA Records in 1989, Black made his debut with his Killin' Time album, which produced four straight Number One singles on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country...

 and Alan Jackson
Alan Jackson
Alan Eugene Jackson is an American country music singer, known for blending traditional honky tonk and mainstream country sounds and penning many of his own hits. He has recorded 13 studio albums, 3 Greatest Hits albums, 2 Holiday albums, 1 Gospel album and several compilations, all on the Arista...

 contributed to this fact.

Rogers split from Reprise after this record's run, though he did remain with the parent company WEA at their Giant Records division.

Track listing

  1. "If You Want To Find Love" - 3:08 (Barnes, Ewing, Rogers)
  2. "Bed of Roses" - 3:40 (Benson, Gillette)
  3. "Someone Must Feel Like A Fool Tonight" - 3:31 (Dekle, Hill)
  4. "Two Good Reasons - 2:52 (Miller, Pennington)
  5. "Some Prisons Don't Have Walls" - 3:13 (Dekle, Hill)
  6. "They Just Don't Make 'Em Like You Anymore" - 3:48 (Webb)
  7. "When You Were Loving Me" - 2:54 (Kirsch, Turner)
  8. "Sunshine" - 3:07 (Newbury)
  9. "I'll Be There For You" - 2:49 (Glassmeyer, Golden, Wood Newton
    Wood Newton
    Wood Newton is an American songwriter and musician based in Nashville, Tennessee. Newton was born in Hampton, Arkansas, and graduated from Hampton High School in Hampton, Arkansas in 1964...

    )
  10. "How Do I Break It To My Heart?" - 3:36 (Hartford, Mobley, Yearwood)

Chart performance

Chart (1991) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums 42
Canadian RPM Country Albums 32

Singles

The first single from this album was "If You Want To Find Love", which landed at #11 in the U.S. & #12 in Canada. 2 other singles ("Someone Must Feel Like A Fool Tonight" & "I'll Be There For You") did not chart.
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