Perspective: Kenny Rogers made life’s rough edges feel smooth
Sandpapery. That’s a word we like to use when we talk about the rasp in someone’s voice, but few singers lived up to the metaphor’s paradox like Kenny Rogers. His voice was a rough, fine, reliable thing that made every sound around it feel smooth.
The grain of his timbre was genial and generous that way, and it gave his voice tremendous reach. By the mid-1980s, Rogers had become one of the biggest singers in any style, selling millions of albums, filling arenas and helping to make country music a planetary enterprise. But Rogers — whoin 2014. “I sing better on duets than I do by myself. It’s like running a 100-yard dash: You run as fast as you think you can, but you put someone alongside you who runs faster and you’re going to run faster.
Rogers loved singing vocal harmonies, something he learned from his older sister in the church pews when they were kids. So it’s surprising to hear him describe the sympathetic ballads that defined his career — and his life — as competitive sprints.
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