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Grand Ole Opry Adds 2nd Tuesday Night Opry June 3 (Cybergrass)

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 09:14:52 GMT

... p.m. & 9:30 p.m. Weekend performances by Dwight Yoakam, Joe Nichols, Charley Pride, Mark Wills, Mel Tillis, Ricky Skaggs, and more. June 7 – Opry at the Ryman Fan Fair Matinee, Ryman Auditorium – 3:00 p.m. The Opry returns to the historic Ryman Auditorium in downtown Nashville for a special summertime performance featuring Lady Antebellum, Emerson Drive, and more.

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Day Thirty Eight - Steinhatchee, Florida, United States (TravelPod.com Recent Updates)

Tue, 27 May 2008 01:00:45 GMT

... trees and plants. It does not have a lot of development around it yet, but I understand, if Mel Tillis has his way, that more condos are coming. Incredibly, the condos are running in the mid 400's... I baked some chocolate chip cookies for Walt today to repay him for the fish yesterday, but he left before I could get them to him so I went around to the kids and the patrons at...

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KEITH HANDS OUT GUITARS TO CO-STARS (PR-Inside.com Entertainment News)

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 00:56:44 GMT

Country star TOBY KEITH stunned castmates on his new movie BEER FOR MY HORSES by giving them all custom-made guitars as wrap gifts. The singer/songwriter, who scored a massive hit with the film’s title, handed out Takamine acoustic guitars, featuring the movie’s logo to co-stars Ted Nugent, Rodney Carrington, Mel Tillis, Gina Gershon, Claire Forlani and [...]

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CD/DOWNLOAD RELEASE: Mel Tillis' Elektra Years Reissued on Collectors' Choice on April 29 (All About Jazz)

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 23:30:03 GMT

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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Happy Guinness Day! (Secondhand Tryptophan)

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:07:28 GMT

... 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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Listen Up: Lizz Wright (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 23:49:00 GMT

... 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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Raising Sand by Robert Plant and Alison Krauss (ricklibrarian)

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 00:58:00 GMT

... 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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The Curtain Falls (A Whiff of Smiff)

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 05:31:51 GMT

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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The Day in Pictures (Secondhand Tryptophan)

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 02:38:11 GMT

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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Country-music legend Tillis set for shows today (Orlando Sentinel)

Sat, 05 Jan 2008 05:00:00 GMT

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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Top Country Music News of 2007 (CMT News)

Wed, 26 Dec 2007 16:55:00 GMT

... 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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Friedman To Try On Governors Boots In New Film (Contactmusic Ltd)

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 08:11:12 GMT

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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Sawdust by The Killers XPN Featured Album of the Week (WXPN 88.5 FM)

Thu, 13 Dec 2007 20:00:26 GMT

... & 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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Mel Tillis Not Stopping With Hall of Fame Honor (CMT News)

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 22:39:00 GMT

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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Rainy Day Mix-Tape (Sound On The Sound)

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 06:01:26 GMT

... 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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HOT DISH: Magical Moments at the CMA Awards (CMT News)

Mon, 12 Nov 2007 11:00:00 GMT

... 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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Is Country Music Inherently Conservative? (History News Network)

Mon, 12 Nov 2007 05:00:00 GMT

... 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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When the rock star met the bluegrass queen (CNN)

Thu, 08 Nov 2007 16:58:55 GMT

... 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...

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Bluegrass angel teams with heavy metal rocker (Miami Herald)

Mon, 05 Nov 2007 13:33:00 GMT

... 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...

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Video: The Killers Collect B-Sides and Rarities for Next Album, Sawdust out November 13th, With Lead Track 'Shadowplay' (PR News Wire )

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 13:00:00 GMT

... a cover of Kenny Rogers & the First Edition's "Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town" (written by Mel Tillis). The collection will also contain songs which weren't complete for Sam's Town. The Killers recently went back into the studio to finish the tracks. They will also record a second Christmas single for the RED Campaign, "Don't Shoot Me Santa," expected for December 1st release. It follows...

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