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Kenny Rogers Was the Stream Between the Islands of Pop and Country
Kenny Rogers always acknowledged he wasn't a hard country singer. "I've always been too pop for country and too country for pop," Rogers told Rob Tannenbaum at Rolling Stone back in 2001, when he was still basking in the afterglow of the success of "Buy Me a Rose," the last single of his to top the Billboard Country charts.
