Kenny Rogers' 15 Best Songs Ranked
Too pop? Too schmaltzy? Whatever. He left behind a lush legacy.
4 min readMar 22, 2020
In life, Kenny Rogers never really got the respect he deserved. Sure he cranked out a steady succession of country and pop hits, especially between 1977 and 1987, but he often was dismissed by country purists as being too pop and by the pop establishment (which, during Rogers’ late-’70s and early…