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{{Infobox album
| name = She Rides Wild Horses
| type = studio
| artist = [[Kenny Rogers]]
| cover = Kenny Rogers - She Rides Wild Horses.jpg
| alt =
| released = May 11, 1999
| recorded =
| venue =
| studio = [[Creative Recording]] ([[Berry Hill, Tennessee]])
| genre = [[Country music|Country]]
| length = 38:06
| label = Dreamcatcher
| producer = Kenny Rogers, [[Brent Maher]], Jim McKell
| prev_title = [[Christmas from the Heart (Kenny Rogers album)|Christmas from the Heart]]
| prev_year = 1998
| next_title = [[There You Go Again]]
| next_year = 2000
| misc = {{Singles
| name = She Rides Wild Horses
| type = studio
| single1 = [[The Greatest (Kenny Rogers song)|The Greatest]]
| single1date = April 17, 1999
| single2 = Slow Dance More
| single2date = 1999
| single3 = [[Buy Me a Rose]]
| single3date = October 13, 1999
}}
}}

'''''She Rides Wild Horses''''' is the twenty-third studio album by American [[country music]] singer [[Kenny Rogers]]. It was released in 1999 on his own Dreamcatcher Records label. The album includes the singles "The Greatest," "Slow Dance More" and "[[Buy Me a Rose]]," which all charted on the ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' country singles charts, giving Rogers' best success on that chart since 1991.<ref name="whitburn">{{cite book|last=Whitburn|first=Joel|title=Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008|publisher=Record Research, Inc|date=2008|pages=244|isbn=978-0-89820-177-2}}</ref>

==Singles==
"The Greatest," his first release on his own label, brought him to the country charts for the first time in nearly eight years, spending twenty weeks on the Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now [[Hot Country Songs]]) charts and peaking at 26.<ref name="whitburn"/>

"Slow Dance More" was the album's second single released, peaking at number 67 on the same chart, followed by "[[Buy Me a Rose]]," with backing vocals from [[Alison Krauss]] and [[Billy Dean]] which went to number one on the country charts and number 40 on the [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]], giving Rogers his first number one since 1987, and the last number one of his career. The song also made Rogers, who was 61 at the time, the oldest country artist to achieve a number one hit.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=LC&p_theme=lc&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EC35CC043983E8E&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|title=Two for the shows|date=October 15, 2000|work=Sunday News|access-date=May 7, 2009}}</ref>

==Critical reception==
Giving it three stars out of five, [[Stephen Thomas Erlewine]] of [[Allmusic]] considered it a stronger album than Rogers' 1997 album ''[[Across My Heart]]'' and a return to his 1980s sound, but said that some of the song selection was "uneven."<ref>{{cite web|url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r414298|pure_url=yes}}|title=''She Rides Wild Horses'' review|last=Erlewine|first=Stephen Thomas|work=Allmusic|access-date=January 23, 2010}}</ref>

==Track listing==
{{track listing
|title1 = Slow Dance More
|writer1 = [[Pat Bunch]], [[Doug Johnson (record producer)|Doug Johnson]]
|length1 = 3:04
|title2 = [[Buy Me a Rose]]
|note2 = guest vocals: [[Alison Krauss]] and [[Billy Dean]]
|writer2 = Jim Funk, Erik Hickenlooper
|length2 = 3:48
|title3 = [[I Will Remember You (Sarah McLachlan song)|I Will Remember You]]
|writer3 = Seamus Egan, [[Sarah McLachlan]], Dave Merenda
|length3 = 5:04
|title4 = Love Don't Live Here Anymore
|note4 = guest vocals: Alison Krauss
|writer4 = [[Eric Kaz]], [[Linda Thompson (actress)|Linda Thompson]]
|length4 = 3:47
|title5 = She Rides Wild Horses
|writer5 = [[Corbin/Hanner|Bob Corbin]], [[Ted Hewitt]]
|length5 = 3:15
|title6 = The Kind of Fool Love Makes
|writer6 = [[Brenda Lee]], [[Michael McDonald (singer)|Michael McDonald]], Dave Powelson
|length6 = 4:12
|title7 = Loving Arms
|writer7 = [[Tom Jans]]
|length7 = 3:40
|title8 = [[I Can't Make You Love Me]]
|writer8 = [[Mike Reid (singer)|Mike Reid]], [[Allen Shamblin]]
|length8 = 4:17
|title9 = [[Let It Be Me (The Everly Brothers song)|Let It Be Me]]
|writer9 = [[Gilbert Bécaud]], [[Pierre Delanoë]], [[Manny Curtis]]
|length9 = 3:52
|title10 = [[The Greatest (Kenny Rogers song)|The Greatest]]
|writer10 = [[Don Schlitz]]
|length10 = 3:09
}}

==Personnel==
As listed in liner notes.<ref name="liner">{{cite AV media notes |title=She Rides Wild Horses |others=Kenny Rogers |year=1999 |type=CD insert |publisher=Dreamcatcher Records |id=DCR 004-2}}</ref>

* [[Kenny Rogers]] – lead vocals
* [[Bobby Ogdin]] – keyboards
* [[Sixwire|Steve Mandile]] – all guitars (1, 2, 4-9), electric guitar (10)
* Richard Bailey – [[banjo]] (1)
* Russ Pahl – [[steel guitar]] (1)
* [[Bruce Bouton]] – steel guitar (2, 4)
* Steve Gibson – all guitars (3)
* [[Mark Selby (musician)|Mark Selby]] – rhythm guitar (10)
* [[Biff Watson]] – acoustic guitar (10)
* Steve Glassmeyer – [[mandolin]] (10)
* Spencer Campbell – bass
* [[Eddie Bayers]] – drums
* Bobby Taylor – [[English horn]] and [[oboe]] (4, 5)
* [[Jonathan Yudkin]] – [[fiddle]] (1), [[violin]] (3)
* Michael Black – backing vocals (1, 3, 5)
* Thom Flora – backing vocals (1, 10)
* [[Billy Dean]] – backing vocals (2)
* [[Alison Krauss]] – backing vocals (2, 4)
* Tammy Fry – harmony vocals (3, 5, 9)
* Yvonne Hodges – backing vocals (5)
* [[Carolyn Dawn Johnson]] – harmony vocals (6)
* [[Billy Montana]] – backing vocals (7)
* Jack Sundrud – backing vocals (7)
* Strings on Tracks 2-9 performed by [[The Nashville String Machine]]; Carl Gorodetzky, concertmaster. Arranged and conducted by Bergen White.

== Production ==
* Tracks 1-4 produced by Kenny Rogers; Tracks 5-10 produced by [[Brent Maher]] and Jim McKell for Maher Productions.
* Executive producer – Jim Mazza
* Recorded and mixed by Brent Maher and Jim McKell
* Assistant engineers – Jason Breckling, Otto D'Agnolo, Thomas Johnson, Eric Katte, Mark Niemiec, Gary Paczosa, Paul Skaife and Jamison Weddle.
* Recorded and mixed at [[Creative Recording]], Inc. (Nashville, TN).
* Editing – Eric Conn, Frank Green, Carlos Grier and Mills Logan.
* Mastered by Denny Purcell and Jonathan Russell at Georgetown Masters (Nashville, TN).
* Art direction – P. David Elezear and Nick Long
* Photography – Jim "Señor" McGuire
* Management – Ken Kragen and Jim Mazza
* Booking – Greg Oswald at William Morris Agency

==Charts==
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===Weekly charts===
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center"
|-
! scope="col"| Chart (1999)
! scope="col"| Peak<br />position
|-
! scope="row"| Canadian Country Albums (''[[RPM (magazine)|RPM]]'')
| 8
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{{album chart|Billboard200|60|artist=Kenny Rogers|rowheader=true|access-date=June 6, 2021}}
|-
{{album chart|BillboardCountry|6|artist=Kenny Rogers|rowheader=true|access-date=June 6, 2021}}
|-
{{album chart|BillboardIndependent|9|artist=Kenny Rogers|rowheader=true|access-date=June 6, 2021}}
|}
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===Year-end charts===
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center"
|-
! scope="col"| Chart (1999)
! scope="col"| Position
|-
! scope="row"| US Top Country Albums (''Billboard'')<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/1999/top-country-albums|title=Top Country Albums – Year-End 1999|magazine=Billboard|access-date=June 6, 2021}}</ref>
| 24
|}
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==References==
{{reflist}}
{{Kenny Rogers}}

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[[Category:1999 albums]]
[[Category:Kenny Rogers albums]]
[[Category:Albums produced by Brent Maher]]

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