Back Home Again (Kenny Rogers album)

Back Home Again is the twenty-fourth studio album by American country music artist Kenny Rogers released in 1991. It was Rogers' last album to be released through Reprise Records. The album was Rogers' second album not to attain any certifications from the RIAA and only reached number 42 on the U.S. Country charts.

Back Home Again
Studio album by Kenny Rogers
Released	November 1991
Recorded	1991
Genre	Country
Length	32:38
Label	Reprise
Producer	Jim Ed Norman, Eric Prestidge
Kenny Rogers chronology
Love Is Strange (1990) Back Home Again (1991) If Only My Heart Had A Voice (1993)
Singles from Back Home Again
"If You Want to Find Love" Released: November 30, 1991

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"If You Want to Find Love"	Max D. Barnes, Skip Ewing, Kenny Rogers	3:08
2.	"Bed of Roses"	Rex Benson, Steve Gillette	3:40
3.	"Someone Must Feel Like a Fool Tonight"	Mike Dekle, Byron Hill	3:31
4.	"Two Good Reasons"	J.D. Miller, J.P. Pennington	2:52
5.	"Some Prisons Don't Have Walls"	Dekle, Hill	3:13
6.	"They Just Don't Make 'Em Like You Anymore"	Jimmy Webb	3:48
7.	"When You Were Loving Me"	Billy Kirsch, Zack Turner	2:54
8.	"Sunshine"	Mickey Newbury	3:07
9.	"I'll Be There for You"	Steve Glassmeyer, Gene Golden, Wood Newton	2:49
10.	"How Do I Break It to My Heart"	Chapin Hartford, Wendell Mobley, Trisha Yearwood	3:36

Personnel

Compiled from liner notes.

Musicians

• Kenny Rogers – lead vocals
• Mike Lawler – synthesizers
• Phil Naish – keyboards, synthesizers, string arrangements
• Bobby Ogdin – acoustic piano, keyboards
• Hargus "Pig" Robbins – acoustic piano
• Steve Gibson – electric guitar, acoustic guitar, mandolin, mandola
• John Hug – acoustic guitar
• Biff Watson – acoustic guitar
• Hoot Hester – mandolin, mandola, fiddle
• Dan Dugmore – pedal steel guitar
• Sonny Garrish – pedal steel guitar
• Jay Dee Maness – pedal steel guitar
• Michael Rhodes – bass guitar
• Eddie Bayers – drums
• Paul Leim – drums
• Billy Thomas – drums
• Terry McMillan – harmonica, percussion
• Farrell Morris – marimba
• Eric Prestidge – string arrangements
• Bergen White – arrangements, conductor
• Carl Gorodetzky – concertmaster, contractor
• The Nashville String Machine – strings
• Steve Glassmeyer – backing vocals
• Gene Golden – backing vocals
• Chris Harris – backing vocals
• Mark Heimermann – backing vocals
• Gary Janney – backing vocals
• Dennis Locorriere – harmony vocals

Guest vocalists

• The Branson Brothers (tracks 1, 4)
• Linda Davis (tracks 1, 2, 5)
• Rudy and Steve Gatlin of Larry Gatlin and the Gatlin Brothers (track 8)
• Terry McBride and Billy Thomas of McBride & the Ride (track 10)
• Larry Stewart of Restless Heart (track 6)

Production

• Producers – Jim Ed Norman and Eric Prestidge
• Recorded by Mark Dewey, John Dickson, Mark Kapps, Eric Prestidge and Robert Tassi.
• Recorded at The Loft (Nashville, TN), The Castle (Franklin, TN) and Ocean Way Recording (Hollywood, CA).
• Mixed by Eric Prestidge at Conway Studios (Hollywood, CA).
• Edited by Don Cobb
• Technicians – Mark Goddington, Danny Kee, Mark Nevers, Rail Rogut, Brett Swain and Robert Tassi.
• Mastered by Doug Sax and Alan Yoshida at The Mastering Lab (Los Angeles, CA).
• Art Direction – Laura LiPuma Nash
• Design – Beth Middleworth
• Photography – Peter LiPuma Nash

Chart performance

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

Singles

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