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 – who died Friday at 81 – didn’t do it on his own. “Some of the highlights of my life were the duets,” he told Rolling Stone in 2014. “I sing better on duets than I do by myself.
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