| Kenny | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Kenny Rogers |
| Cover: | KennyRogersKenny.jpg |
| Released: | September 1979[1] |
| Recorded: | 1979 |
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| Genre: | Country |
| Length: | 36:02 |
| Label: | United Artists Group |
| Producer: | Larry Butler |
| Prev Title: | The Kenny Rogers Singles Album |
| Prev Year: | 1979 |
| Next Title: | Gideon |
| Next Year: | 1980 |
Kenny is the eighth studio album by American singer Kenny Rogers, released in 1979. It includes the singles "Coward of the County" and "You Decorated My Life."
"Tulsa Turnaround" is a reworking of an earlier song Rogers recorded with The First Edition.
"Goodbye Marie" was first recorded by Johnny Rodriguez on his March 1979 album, Rodriguez Was Here, and then later recorded by Bobby Goldsboro, charting as a single for him in 1981.
The album reached the top five of the US Billboard album chart and #1 in the Country charts (where it stayed for a record total of 25 weeks). In the UK, it was a top ten album as well. In 2007, the album was issued as a two album set on one CD, the other album included on the disc being the self-titled Kenny Rogers from 1976.
In the sleeve notes for the 2009 reissue on the Edsel record label, biographer Chris Bolton notes that this album "does its best to represent every musical personality of Kenny Rogers." Stephen Thomas Erlewine states that the album mixes music styles from Country to Disco.
This was the fourth of twelve #1's for Rogers on the Country albums chart, as well as his first Top 10 'Pop' album entry.
| Chart (1979) | Peak position | |
|---|---|---|
| U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums | 1 | |
| U.S. Billboard 200 | 5 | |
| Australian (Kent Music Report) Albums | 15[2] | |
| Canadian RPM Country Albums | 1 | |
| Canadian RPM Top Albums | 1 | |
| UK Albums Chart | 7 |