Kenny Rogers’ rehabilitation has been going on as long as he’s been making music. Each stage of his nearly 60-year career has hinged on reinventing himself, from a clean-shaven rockabilly kid in a group called The Scholars to a jazz bassist in The Bobby Doyle Trio; from a folksinger in The New Christy Minstrels to a psychedelic rocker in The First Edition; and from a country upstart to a crossover pop icon in the ’70s and beyond. That perpetual makeover (minus any mention of his extensive plastic surgery) forms the backbone of Rogers’ lightweight, amiable memoir, Luck Or Something Like It.
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