Gideon (album)

Gideon
Studio album by Kenny Rogers
Released	March 24, 1980
Recorded	1979–1980
Studio	Jack Clement Recording (Nashville, Tennessee)
Genre	Country
Length	34:05
Label	United Artists Group
Producer	Larry Butler, Kenny Rogers
Kenny Rogers chronology
Kenny (1979) Gideon (1980) Greatest Hits (1980)

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Gideon is the ninth studio album by American singer Kenny Rogers. It was released by United Artists Records in 1980. The album hit #1 on the Country albums chart and #12 on the main Billboard album chart. It includes the worldwide hit "Don't Fall in Love with a Dreamer" (a duet with Kim Carnes, who co-wrote the entire album with her husband Dave Ellingson). Gideon was certified platinum by the RIAA.

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", it is known that Gideon is dead. This and most of the other songs are sung from the point of view of the character himself.

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 five hit single "Love the World Away".