Kenny Rogers

===Bloodline===
Although Rogers used many session musicians to play instruments on his recordings, he was backed on tours by the group Bloodline since 1976. The group originally started as a three-piece.<ref name="DeYoung">{{cite web|first1=Bill |last1=DeYoung |title=[Article 60] The rise and fall of Kenny Rogers|url=http://www.billdeyoung.com/archives/the-rise-and-fall-of-kenny-rogers/|website=Bill DeYoung.com|access-date=May 15, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160215225216/http://www.billdeyoung.com/archives/the-rise-and-fall-of-kenny-rogers/|archive-date=February 15, 2016|date=May 27, 2014|url-status=dead |quote=Few artists of the past 30 years have enjoyed the across–the–board recognizability of Kenny Rogers. His celebrity landed him on more television shows and magazine covers than any other singer of his day, and for a long time, you couldn't punch a radio button without hearing his teddy–bear baritone. If he wasn't singing on TV, he was hosting an awards show or schmoozing with some other superstar.}}</ref> In ''The Journey'' (a 2006 documentary about his career) Rogers said he did not understand singers who changed their touring band every year, and that he stuck with Bloodline as they already "know the songs".  Members of Bloodline have included Steve Glassmeyer, Chuck Jacobs, Randy Dorman, Gene Golden, Bobby Daniels, Rick Harper, Edgar Struble, Lynn Hammann, Warren Hartman, Gene Sisk, Brian Franklin, Mike Zimmerman and Amber Randall.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Glassmeyer |first1=Matt |title=In Praise of Bloodline, Kenny Rogers's Band Since 1976 |url=https://www.nashvillescene.com/music/features/article/20986423/in-praise-of-bloodline-kenny-rogers-band-since-1976 |work=[[Nashville Scene]]|date=December 21, 2017 |access-date=November 13, 2019}}</ref>