Garth Brooks has joined the country A-listers offering up tributes to Kenny Rogers, revealing the late singer provided the model of how a superstar should act.
Brooks, who inducted the Coward of the County singer into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2013, opened for the music icon on tour in 1989, and the two singers became firm friends over the years.
Recalling their early days together on the road, Brooks tells Rolling Stone, “Kenny Rogers… became one of my heroes. Just watching how he treated his band, his guys, everybody, they’d all been with him for 100 years.
It was like, ‘This is how you do it’. “There was no way you could be around him and not learn something. He was one of the most successful artists on the planet.
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