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Kenny Rogers Didn’t Need to Be a Songwriter to Tell a Story

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Out of the 42 songs that Kenny Rogers landed in the Billboard Hot 100, he only wrote or co-wrote five of them: 1977’s “Sweet Music Man,” 1978’s “Love Or Something Like It,” 1982’s “Love Will Turn You Around,” and 1984’s “Crazy” and “What About Me?.

But that says less about his relative lack of prolificacy with a pen than it does his world-class ability to curate, interpret and channel songs by outside writers."I've always felt great songs put you in a spot, put you in a place -- on a warm summer's evening, on a train bound for nowhere," Rogers told NPR in 2012.

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