With four hungry children and a crop in the field
Continuing my trip back through the 1977 album charts. 03/07/77 : Kenny Rogers - Kenny Rogers Country's not been overly well represented here over the years and this is our first visit with one of the senior statesmen - you wouldn't believe how many of his albums are on Amazon, but this one isn't. I'm expecting a load of cheese, but at least it's got "Lucille" on it so it's not all going to be dreadful. Yeah, it's pretty cheesy but he's certainly got a lovely voice - you can't help but feel that if they stripped back some of the backing singers and instrumentation then a lot of the songs would be a lot more effective. "Lucille" is a fine track, but unfortunately his version of "Green Green Grass Of Home" isn't a patch on Tom's. We're at #16 on the charts this week on his fourth week of a seven week run having peaked at #14 in his third week - not exactly chart domination from the lad. The top five this we