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Garth Brooks on Kenny Rogers: 'I Can't Think of Anybody Who Taught Me That Much': Exclusive
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billboard.comKenny Rogers, who died Saturday (March 21), was the first major act that Garth Brooks ever opened for. A few months after the release of his 1989 self-titled debut album, Brooks supported the northeast U.S.
leg on the superstar’s 1989 Christmas tour. The friendship and lessons that Brooks learned from Rogers have stayed with him ever since.
Brooks, who inducted Rogers into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2013, remembers his early days with Rogers.Anybody that grew up in the era that I grew up in, Kenny Rogers was a pop artist.
Kenny would tell you if he stood in front of a country crowd, he felt so pop, and if he stood in front of a pop crowd, he felt so country.
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