Love Will Always Win
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{{Infobox song
| name = Love Will Always Win
| cover = Garth Brooks - Love Will Always Win.jpg
| type = single
| artist = Garth Brooks with Trisha Yearwood
| album = The Lost Sessions
| B-side =
| released = {{Start date|2006|1|30}}{{cite magazine|title=Going for Adds: Country|magazine=Radio & Records|page=24|date=January 27, 2006|issue=1642}}
| recorded = 2005
| studio =
| genre = Country
| length = 4:41
| label = {{hlist|Pearl|Lyric Street}}
| writer = {{hlist|Gordon Kennedy|Wayne Kirkpatrick}}
| producer = Allen Reynolds
| chronology = Garth Brooks
| prev_title = Good Ride Cowboy
| prev_year = 2005
| next_title = That Girl Is a Cowboy
| next_year = 2006
| misc = {{Extra chronology
| artist = Trisha Yearwood
| type = single
| prev_title = Trying to Love You
| prev_year = 2005
| title = Love Will Always Win
| year = 2006
| next_title = Heaven, Heartache and the Power of Love
| next_year = 2007
}}
}}
"Love Will Always Win" is a song written by Gordon Kennedy and Wayne Kirkpatrick. It was originally recorded by American country music artist Faith Hill for the international release of her 1998 album Faith, also titled Love Will Always Win. The track was later recorded by American singers Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood. It was released on February 4, 2006, as the second and final single from Brooks' box set The Limited Series (2005).
History
Faith Hill cut the song in 1998 for the international release of her 1998 album Faith, produced by herself and Byron Gallimore.{{cite web | url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/release/love-will-always-win-mr0001191933 | title=Love Will Always Win | publisher=AllMusic | accessdate=June 15, 2021}} In 2005, Garth Brooks recorded the song as a duet with his wife, Trisha Yearwood, for the album The Lost Sessions, a compilation of new and previously-unreleased material within his 2005 box set The Limited Series. Brooks and Yearwood performed the song on The Oprah Winfrey Show.{{cite web | url=https://outsider.com/news/country-music/watch-garth-brooks-trisha-yearwood-perform-love-will-always-win-on-oprah-in-2006/ | title=WATCH: Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood Perform 'Love Will Always Win' on Oprah in 2006 | publisher=The Outsider | date=December 22, 2020 | accessdate=June 15, 2021}} Allen Reynolds, Brooks' longtime producer for two decades, produced their version of the song, although a review from Billboard magazine erroneously gave the production credit to the song's co-writers Gordon Kennedy and Wayne Kirkpatrick.{{cite magazine | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_xQEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA35 | title=Reviews | magazine=Billboard | pages=35 | date=February 4, 2006}}
Critical reception
Chuck Taylor reviewed the single favorably in Billboard, calling it "a beautiful and timeless song of devotion" and "simple and straightforward".
Additional musicians
Source:Garth Brooks - The Lost Sessions: liner notes from the CD booklet, p. 4 (bar code 85420-6001-084)
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- Bruce Bouton – steel guitar
- Dennis Burnside – string arrangements
- Mark Casstevens – acoustic guitar
- Mike Chapman – bass
- Chris Leuzinger – gut string and electric guitars
- Milton Sledge – drums
- Bobby Wood – keyboards
- The Nashville String Machine – string section
- David Angell
- Monisa Angell
- David Davidson
- Conni Ellison
- Carl Gorodetzky
- James Grosjean
- Anthony Lamarchina
- Carole Rabinowitz
- Pamela Sixfin
- Alan Umstead
- Catherine Umstead
- Gary Vanosdale
- Mary Kathryn Vanosdale
- Kristin Wilkinson
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Charts
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!align="left"|Chart (2006) !align="center"|Peak |
| {{singlechart|Billboardcountrysongs|23|artist=Garth Brooks}} |
References
{{Reflist}}
{{Faith Hill singles}}
{{Garth Brooks singles}}
{{Trisha Yearwood singles}}
Category:Trisha Yearwood songs
Category:Songs written by Gordon Kennedy (musician)