![]() ![]() The First Edition’s fourth album, 1969’s Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love to Town, contained two topical covers key to Rogers’ career. Their 1967 self-titled debut featured “ Just Dropped In (To See What My Condition My Condition Was In) ,” an admonition against LSD by Nashville songwriter Mickey Newbury that peaked at No. After a brief stint in folk music institution the New Christy Minstrels, he and the group’s Mike Settle, Terry Williams, and Thelma Camacho departed and formed The First Edition. ![]() “I saw no reason to limit the songs I could do.”įrom the very beginning, Rogers tackled an eclectic array of outside material. “I never felt hamstrung by one form, even if I had been successful with it,” Rogers stated in his 2012 memoir Luck or Something Like It. Today, we mourn the sandy-voiced balladeer, actor, entrepreneur, and Country Music Hall of Famer, who died Friday (March 20) at his Sandy Springs, Georgia, home, as a master representative of the American songbook. Dolly Parton, LeAnn Rimes and More Remember Kenny Rogers: 'He Had a Voice Like No Other' ![]()
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