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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 04/02/2008
Three Elektra albums--Me and Pepper, Your Body Is an Outlaw and Southern Rain--formed some of the most critically and commercial successful work of his career. LOS ANGELES, CA -- Mel Tillis has charted more than 100 hits as a performer and songwriter, starred in half a dozen movies, and became one of the few country artists to figure out the business side of the music business. Some of the biggest...
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Secondhand Tryptophan (Free subscription) | 03/17/2008
... what I remember. Still, I’m setting a bad habit, going to another country concert. I just went to Mel Tillis not all that long ago. Pretty soon I’ll be crooning along with Hank Williams, Jr., wearing cowboy boots, and chewing large wads of tobaccy. Then I’ll start collecting old beater cars on my lawn and having beer for breakfast. Speaking of beer for breakfast, it's St. Patrick’s Day....
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 03/01/2008
... finally celebrates that happily-ever-after devotion. But after a pause, the album concludes with a Mel Tillis song, "Strange," that leaves the singer alone yet again, dreamy and desolate. DOWNLOAD: "This Is"-- The New York Times
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ricklibrarian (Free subscription) | 02/19/2008
... from the 1950s or 1960s, penned by the Everly Brothers, Gene Clark, Tom Waits, Naomi Neville, and Mel Tillis. The Hinsdale Public Library has its copy in the folk display. iTunes has it as country. It does not matter so long as you can find it. I was not really sure it was Robert Plant singing when I started listening, as he is fairly mellow in the first couple of songs, but as I kept listening,...
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A Whiff of Smiff (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
Mel Tillis wrote a fabulous song long ago that went a little somethin’ like this: I never was your woman, cause you were never true..So all in all, if the curtain should fall, I hope that it falls on you…Then I’ll have sweet, sweet mental revenge…. Just about every weekend since early December, I have been [...]
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Secondhand Tryptophan (Free subscription) | 01/07/2008
Today Mom and I went to Cypress Gardens to see Mel Tillis in concert. I'm not a country fan but he puts on a hell of a show, Mr. Tillis. And he's a really good storyteller. He told one that...
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Orlando Sentinel (Free subscription) | 01/05/2008
Country music legend Mel Tillis will perform at the Orange Blossom Opry, 13939 S.E. County Road 42 in Weirsdale, at 2:30 and 7:30 p.m. today.
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CMT News (Free subscription) | 12/26/2007
... Chesney wins third consecutive entertainer of the year award from Academy of Country Music. ... Mel Tillis tapped to join Grand Ole Opry. ... Trisha Yearwood signs with Big Machine Records. ... Mary Chapin Carpenter cancels tour due to illness. ... Songwriters celebrate Bluebird Café's 25th anniversary.June: Porter Wagoner releases what will prove to be his final studio album, Wagonmaster,...
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Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 12/19/2007
Singer/writer KINKY FRIEDMAN is set for a taste of what it really would be like to play the Governor of Texas in a new movie. The satirist, who ran for the office as an Independent in 2006, will play the state Governor in an action packed western set in the late 1800s. Shooting on Palo Pinto Gold is set to start in January (08). The film also features country stars Roy Clark and Mel Tillis and...
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WXPN 88.5 FM (Free subscription) | 12/13/2007
... & The First Edition (!!) hit "Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town", a song that was written by Mel Tillis (!!!).Spread some Sawdust over your stereo... it's definitely eclectic enough for ya...
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CMT News (Free subscription) | 12/11/2007
New Country Music Hall of Famer Mel Tillis isn't resting on his engraved plaque. In fact, to hear the excitement in his voice, you'd think he was just launching his career instead of justifiably savoring its fruits.
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Sound On The Sound (Free subscription) | 11/27/2007
... Clearwater Revival “Hard Rain is Gonna Fall” - Leon Russell (Bob Dylan cover) “Southern Rain” - Mel Tillis “Colored Rain” -Traffic “Box of Rain” - Grateful Dead “Blow Wind Blow” - Dr. John “Rain Maker” - Traffic “Rain” - The Beatles “Crying in the Rain” - Everly Brothers “Candles in the Rain” - Melanie “Love The Rain” - Toots and The Maytals “Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain” - Willie Nelson...
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CMT News (Free subscription) | 11/12/2007
... of you at the CMA, thank you for honoring new Country Music Hall of Fame inductees Ralph Emery, Mel Tillis and Vince Gill during Wednesday's (Nov. 7) CMA Awards broadcast. Membership in the Hall of Fame is the highest honor a country music star can achieve, and the fans deserve to see the winners -- and the winners deserve to be seen.Talking about a hero for a host, James Denton may be a...
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History News Network (Free subscription) | 11/12/2007
... anonymous industry-dominated selection committee this year honored largely apolitical performers Mel Tillis and Vince Gill and broadcaster Ralph Emery. And yet, prominent figures in American music tradition such as left-leaning balladeer Woody Guthrie, author of "Oklahoma Hills" and "This Land is Your Land," remain untapped. Here Peter La Chapelle, Assistant Professor in the History Program...
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CNN (Free subscription) | 11/08/2007
... whispery record that finds them interpreting the likes of Townes Van Zandt, the Everly Brothers, Mel Tillis and Tom Waits."I think of it as a window into some other world," she says of her collaborations. "You take away something by watching someone sing and watching them do something they were naturally born to do."Plant, who still wears a shaggy mane of curls, says Krauss and Burnett set...
