Strip away the big stages, television lights, cowboy hats, tour buses and rhinestones. The stories are the heart of country music, and there's none finer than 'The Gambler' by Kenny Rogers, song No. 1 ...

Forty-five years ago today (Nov. 15, 1978) was a life-altering day for Kenny Rogers: It was on that date that the singer's multi-Platinum-selling album The Gambler was released. Rogers was already one ...

Johnny Cash cut it. Bobby Bare cut it. Under the name “Charlie Tango,” Conway Twitty’s son, Michael Twitty, cut it. Even the songwriter himself, Don Schlitz, cut it, as well as other people whose ...

It’s the one song even non-country fans know by heart, and its namesake album was released 36 years ago today. Kenny Rogers had already enjoyed 20 years of musical success before releasing The Gambler ...

In the late Sixties and early Seventies, Kenny Rogers, lead singer of the group First Edition, enjoyed success on the pop charts. It wasn’t until he went solo in 1975 that the bearded singer with the ...