Gideon (album)

Gideon is the title of an album by Country singer Kenny Rogers issued by United Artists Records in 1980. It reached #1 on the country charts and the top 20 of the pop charts. It includes the world-wide hit "Don't Fall In Love With A Dreamer" (a duet with Kim Carnes, who also wrote and produced the album for Rogers).

"Gideon" is a concept album about a Texas cowboy and all the songs stick to this theme. The album is a look back at his life in retrospect. In the first song "Gideon Tanner", we learn that Gideon is dead. This and most of the other songs are sung from the point of view of Gideon.

Although the album's only single release was "Don't Fall in Love with a Dreamer", the song "Saying Goodbye" was issued on the B-side to Rogers' top 5 hit single "Love the World Away".

This album reached Number One on the Billboard Country charts in 1980.

Track listing

# Goin' Home to the Rock (Intro)
# Gideon Tanner
# No Good Texas Rounder
# Don't Fall in Love with a Dreamer
# The Buckeroos
# You Were a Good Friend
# Call Me Up (The Phone is in the Cradle)
# These Chains
# Somebody Help Me
# One Place in the Night
# Sayin' Goodbye
# Goin' Home to the Rock (Reprise)

External links

* [http://www.music.com/release/gideon/1/ Gideon album page at Music.com]