Country Music Hall of Famer Don Schlitz, songwriter behind hits for Kenny Rogers, Randy Travis and The Judds, has died at age 73 in Nashville.

Songwriter Don Schlitz, who wrote hit tunes for Kenny Rogers, Randy Travis, Mary Chapin Carpenter and the Judds, has died at 73. His best known song was arguably the 1980 number “The Gambler,” which ...

Don Schlitz, the Grammy-winning country songwriter of Kenny Rogers' hit "The Gambler," has died. He was 73. Schlitz died on Thursday, April 16, at a Nashville hospital following a "sudden illness," ...