If Only My Heart Had a Voice
If Only My Heart Had a Voice | ||||
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Studio album by Kenny Rogers | ||||
Released | 1993 | |||
Recorded | 1992–1993 | |||
Genre | Country | |||
Length | 34:08 | |||
Label | Giant | |||
Producer | Larry Butler, James Stroud | |||
Kenny Rogers chronology | ||||
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If Only My Heart Had a Voice is the twenty-fifth studio album by country music artist Kenny Rogers released in 1993 by Giant Records. It was Rogers' first album not to chart since 1976. The album includes the singles "Missing You", "Ol' Red" and "Wanderin' Man".
Content
"Ol' Red" was also recorded by George Jones on his 1990 album You Oughta Be Here with Me, and would later be a Top 20 hit in 2002 for Blake Shelton from his self-titled debut. "If I Were You", recorded here as a duet with Travis Tritt, was originally cut by The Oak Ridge Boys on their 1991 album Unstoppable, and would later be recorded by Chad Brock as a duet with Mark Wills on Brock's 2000 album Yes!
Critical reception
Rob Theakston of Allmusic rated the album 2.5 out of 5 stars, saying that "there are some moments on here that die-hard fans will enjoy". He thought that the production had "aged well" and that the songs were "surprisingly consistent."[1]
Track listing
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Fightin' for the Same Thing" | Chuck Jones, Tom Shapiro | 3:13 |
2. | "Missing You" | Rick Giles, Susan Longacre | 3:14 |
3. | "She Waits" | Tom French, Tom Paden | 3:10 |
4. | "Ol' Red" | James "Bo" Bohan, Don Goodman, Mark Sherrill | 3:07 |
5. | "If I Were You" (duet with Travis Tritt) | Billy Dean, Verlon Thompson | 3:08 |
6. | "Wanderin' Man" | Kim Carnes, Colin Ellingson | 3:53 |
7. | "Reason to Go" | Debbie Hupp, Tim Mensy | 3:55 |
8. | "If You Were the Friend" | Hupp, Mensy | 3:40 |
9. | "If Only My Heart Had a Voice" | Rick Bowles, Skip Ewing, Kenny Rogers | 3:35 |
10. | "Somebody's Wrong Somebody's Right" | Larry Butler | 3:13 |
Personnel
- Kenny Rogers – lead vocals, backing vocals
- Larry Butler – keyboards, synthesizers
- Gene Golden – keyboards, synthesizers
- Mike Lawler – keyboards, synthesizers
- Warren Hartman – Hammond B3 organ
- Steve Glassmeyer – acoustic piano
- Randy McCormick – acoustic piano
- Bobby Ogdin – acoustic piano
- Gary Prim – acoustic piano
- Larry Byrom – acoustic guitar, electric guitar
- Chuck Jones – acoustic guitar
- Chris Leuzinger – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, electric sitar
- Tim Mensy – acoustic guitar
- Biff Watson – acoustic guitar, mandolin
- Randy Dorman – electric guitar
- Steve Gibson – electric guitar
- Ricky Harper – electric guitar
- Porter Howell – electric guitar
- Dann Huff – electric guitar
- Brent Rowan – electric guitar
- Sonny Garrish – steel guitar, dobro
- Weldon Myrick – steel guitar, dobro
- Jimmy Carter – bass
- Joe Chemay – bass
- Chuck Jacobs – bass
- Dave Pomeroy – bass
- Glenn Worf – bass
- Bob Wray – bass
- Lynn Hammann – drums
- Paul Leim – drums
- Nigel Olsson – drums, percussion
- James Stroud – drums, percussion
- Lonnie Wilson – drums
- Joe Spivey – fiddle
- Carl Gorodetzky – string arrangements and conductor
- The Nashville String Machine – strings
- Jana King – backing vocals
- Curtis Wright – backing vocals
- Curtis Young – backing vocals
- Travis Tritt – lead vocals on "If I Were You"
Production
- Producers – Larry Butler and James Stroud
- Recorded by Julian King, Lynn Peterzell and Billy Sherrill.
- Assistant Engineers – Derek Bason, Mark Capps, David Hall, John Hurley, Julian King, Graham Lewis and Darren Smith.
- Recorded at Sound Stage Studios, Soundshop Recording Studios and 16th Avenue Sound (Nashville, TN); The Castle (Franklin, TN); Mesa Recording (Sebastapol, CA).
- Mixed by Lynn Peterzell at 16th Avenue Sound, Sound Stage Studios and Masterfonics (Nashville, TN).
- Mastered by Glenn Meadows at Masterfonics
- Art Direction – Laura LiPuma Nash
- Design – Beth Middleworth
- Photography – Peter Nash
- Management – Ken Kragen at Kragen & Co.
- Booking – C.K. Spurlock
References
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- Love Lifted Me
- Kenny Rogers
- Daytime Friends
- Love or Something Like It
- The Gambler
- Kenny
- Gideon
- Share Your Love
- Love Will Turn You Around
- We've Got Tonight
- Eyes That See in the Dark
- What About Me?
- The Heart of the Matter
- They Don't Make Them Like They Used To
- I Prefer the Moonlight
- Something Inside So Strong
- Love Is Strange
- Back Home Again
- If Only My Heart Had a Voice
- Vote for Love
- Across My Heart
- She Rides Wild Horses
- There You Go Again
- Back to the Well
- Water & Bridges
- You Can't Make Old Friends
- Life Is Like a Song
- Every Time Two Fools Collide (with Dottie West)
- Classics (with Dottie West)
- Timepiece (with David Foster)
- Christmas
- Once Upon a Christmas (with Dolly Parton)
- Christmas in America
- The Gift
- Christmas from the Heart
- Once Again It's Christmas
- Ten Years of Gold
- The Kenny Rogers Singles Album
- Greatest Hits (1980)
- 20 Greatest Hits
- Duets
- The Kenny Rogers Story
- Love Is What We Make It
- Short Stories
- Greatest Hits (1988)
- Daytime Friends – The Very Best of Kenny Rogers
- Live by Request
- 42 Ultimate Hits
- 21 Number Ones
- "That Crazy Feeling"
- "Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)"
- "But You Know I Love You"
- "Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town"
- "Something's Burning"
- "Love Lifted Me"
- "Laura (What's He Got That I Ain't Got)"
- "Lucille"
- "Daytime Friends"
- "Sweet Music Man"
- "Every Time Two Fools Collide" (with Dottie West)
- "Love or Something Like It"
- "Anyone Who Isn't Me Tonight" (with Dottie West)
- "The Gambler"
- "All I Ever Need Is You" (with Dottie West)
- "She Believes in Me"
- "'Til I Can Make It on My Own" (with Dottie West)
- "You Decorated My Life"
- "Coward of the County"
- "Don't Fall in Love with a Dreamer" (with Kim Carnes)
- "Love the World Away"
- "Lady"
- "I Don't Need You"
- "Share Your Love with Me"
- "Blaze of Glory"
- "Through the Years"
- "Love Will Turn You Around"
- "A Love Song"
- "We've Got Tonight" (with Sheena Easton)
- "All My Life"
- "Scarlet Fever"
- "Islands in the Stream" (with Dolly Parton)
- "Eyes That See in the Dark"
- "This Woman"
- "Buried Treasure"
- "Together Again" (with Dottie West)
- "What About Me?" (with Kim Carnes and James Ingram)
- "Evening Star"
- "Crazy"
- "Morning Desire"
- "Goodbye Marie"
- "Tomb of the Unknown Love"
- "Twenty Years Ago"
- "Make No Mistake, She's Mine" (with Ronnie Milsap)
- "I Prefer the Moonlight"
- "The Factory"
- "I Don't Call Him Daddy"
- "When You Put Your Heart in It"
- "Planet Texas"
- "The Vows Go Unbroken (Always True to You)"
- "Maybe" (with Holly Dunn)
- "Love Is Strange" (with Dolly Parton)
- "Crazy in Love"
- "If You Want to Find Love"
- "Ol' Red"
- "Mary, Did You Know?" (with Wynonna Judd)
- "The Greatest"
- "Buy Me a Rose" (with Alison Krauss and Billy Dean)
- "He Will, She Knows"
- "There You Go Again"
- "Homeland"
- "I Can't Unlove You"
- "What Are We Doin' in Love" (with Dottie West)
- "Real Love" (with Dolly Parton)
- "If I Ever Fall in Love Again" (with Anne Murray)
- "Elvira"
- "You and I" (with the Bee Gees)