Biography
Kenny Rogers used to say he had two kinds of songs: ballads that capture what men want to say and women want to hear, and stories that put a listener in a place. That’s one way to explain selling 100 million albums or so. Another is that Rogers—handsome, genial, husky-voiced, and bushy-bearded—was just the kind of guy people liked to listen to and look at, a natural entertainer who split the difference between the earthiness of country and the so...Read more