Rogers bid farewell to the road in 2017 and died three years later, but his hit singles still comfort and console now that he's gone.
but wound up abandoning rock & roll for jazz, taking a regular gig as the bassist for the Bobby Doyle Three. The trio played regularly and cut a record calledin 1962 but a few years later the group went their separate ways, with Rogers landing in a latter-day incarnation of the folk institution the New Christy Minstrels.
Filled with splashy studio trickery, it was a Hollywood version of an acid trip -- no wonder it wound up famouslybut its kitchen-sink razzle-dazzle was anchored by the honeyed voice of Rogers; he didn't so much lend it gravity as made all the weirdness seem safe, even attractive. Rogers wasn't the only lead singer in the First Edition, but by the time they earned their second Top Ten hit,in 1969, his name was above the band's -- the first star-move in a career filled with them.
The mid-'70s were rife with smooth country operators, and Butler steered Rogers down a path forged by Don Williams and Conway Twitty. The slow, steady country waltz of"Lucille" -- a weary story song that gave Rogers first smash country hit in 1977 -- crawled at the same deliberate tempo and delivered with the same slow hand as Williams, but Kenny's vibe veered toward Twitty.
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