![]() ![]() ![]() And I think people thought it was my desire to change country music. So I found something that I could do that didn’t invite comparison to them. “And I chose that way because I could never be better than Johnny Cash or Willie or Waylon at what they did. “You either do what everyone else is doing and you do it better, or you do what no one else is doing and you don’t invite comparison,” Rogers told The Associated Press in 2015. Despite his crossover success, he always preferred to be thought of as a country singer. Rogers thrived for some 60 years before retired from touring in 2017 at age 79. The Houston-born performer with the husky voice and silver beard sold tens of millions of records, won three Grammys and was the star of TV movies based on “The Gambler” and other songs, making him a superstar in the ‘70s and ’80s.
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