Kenny Rogers was everywhere in the late 70s and 80s. He has many great songs, but these five are nearly perfect and a younger ...

Without forming the band, country music history might have looked very different.

Kenny Rogers, the smooth, Grammy-winning balladeer who spanned jazz, folk, country and pop with such hits as "Lucille," "Lady" and "Islands in the Stream" and embraced his persona as "The Gambler" on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. His success burned brighter yet after he went solo in 1976, when, after a few minor Kenny Rogers songs became minor hits, he ...

On December 9, 1932, Billy Edd Wheeler was born in Boone County, West Virginia. Unless you’re a diehard fan of folk and country classics, that name might not be entirely familiar. But chances are, you ...

Randy Sparks, a folk music maestro who crafted choral odes, ballads and ditties of droll wit such as “Saturday Night in Toledo, Ohio” during the 1960s folk revival and who nurtured a host of future ...