The greatest hits of Kenny Rogers’ career
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breakingnews.ieUS singer Kenny Rogers spanned folk, psychedelic rock and country music across a six-decade career. However, running throughout was a thread of story-telling and complex characters, from the paralysed Vietnam veteran in Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love To Town, to the shady passenger in The Gambler.
Here the PA news agency runs down five of Rogers’ greatest hits. The Gambler (1978) This evocative track, penned by Don Schlitz, tells the story of a meeting between the singer and a man, known only as The Gambler, on a train “bound for nowhere”.
The Gambler tells the singer he is “out of aces” and offers him advice in exchange for his last sip of whisky. It was one of five consecutive songs by Rogers to make number one on the US country music charts
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