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Sunday Jun 7 | Detroit News

Bobby Bare, performing at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in June 2008.

Country music tells stories, and no song told ours better than "Detroit City." That's Bobby Bare up top, singing his hit version from 1963.

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Related Topix: Bobby Bare, Country, Detroit, MI, Detroit Metro, John Rich, Opinion

Fri Jun 05, 2009

Country Weekly

Jamey Johnson and Mel Tillis shared the stage at Music Citya s famed Tootsiea s Orchid Lounge.

Jamey Johnson and Hall of Famer Mel Tillis jammed together at an impromptu show at Nashville's famed watering hole, Tootsie's Orchid Lounge, June 2. Jamey and Randy Houser had just finished their Ryman Auditorium debut at their "Traler Park Revival Show," which raised money for the Opry Trust Fund.

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Related Topix: Country, Nashville, TN, Nashville Metro

Wed Jun 03, 2009

CMT.com

Jamey Johnson, Mel Tillis and Tootsiea s

I still have a few items left on my Thing to Do Before I Die list. One of them is to spend some quality time at Tootsie's Orchid Lounge in Nashville.

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Related Topix: Country

Fri May 15, 2009

News Press

Country Music Hall inducting Fort Myers winter resident McCoy

Charlie McCoy is one of the most recorded, most influential musicians in Nashville.

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Related Topix: Fort Myers, FL, Fort Myers Metro, Pop/Rock, Charlie, Usa, Fame, Country

Fri Apr 17, 2009

KASH-FM Anchorage

Maybe It Was Memphi... - Pam Til...

The daughter of country legend Mel Tillis, Pam Tillis made her own way in the music business, eventually becoming a contemporary country star in the '90s. Tillis was born on July 24, 1957, in Plant City, FL, but raised mostly in Nashville and started taking piano lessons at age eight.

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Related Topix: Country, Pam Tillis, Plant City, FL

Sat Apr 11, 2009

WTOK-TV Meridian

MSO Announces Final Concert of the Year

A big season finale is planned for the Meridian Symphony Orchestra. Singer Carrie Tillis is returning to Meridian for this special event.

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Related Topix: Meridian, MS, Symphony, Arts, Country

Thu Apr 09, 2009

Nashville Scene

Mel Tillis

His pronounced stutter may be the first trait people associate with Tillis, but his talents as a songwriter and bandleader ushered the charismatic Floridian into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2007.

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Related Topix: Country

Fri Apr 03, 2009

Colusa County Sun Herald

Tillis how you really feel

Legendary country singer Mel Tillis, above right, takes the stage Thursday at Colusa Casino Resort with fiddlers Jim Buchanan, left, and Ernie Reed.

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Related Topix: Country

Wed Apr 01, 2009

The Daily Democrat

Spring into action as temperature warms in county

It's been nearly six weeks since Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow and, right on the money, spring is now in full bloom.

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Related Topix: Life, Holidays, Groundhog Day, Yolo County, CA, Country, Woodland, CA, Capay, CA, Esparto, CA

Fri Mar 27, 2009

Tallahassee.com

Heritage Month

Mel Tillis, the legendary country western singer and 76-year-old Pahokee native, eased up on stage Wednesday night at the R.A. Gray Auditorium downtown and grinned, admitting that he couldn't say 'hello' in his allotted three minutes.

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Related Topix: Country, Pahokee, FL, Florida, Florida Government, Charlie Crist, US Governors, Tampa Metro

Mon Mar 23, 2009

HandStamp

Pam Tillis gets intimate at the Dosey Doe

Pam Tillis proved she still has the country chops of a star. Larger crowds may have turned out for the final weekend of the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo , but Pam Tillis held court for an intimate audience of country fans Saturday night at the Dosey Doe in the Woodlands.

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Related Topix: Pam Tillis, Country, Loretta Lynn, Dolly Parton, Agriculture, Science

Fri Mar 13, 2009

Ocala Business Journal

Tuesday to be Mel Tillis Day in Marion County

Published: Friday, March 13, 2009 at 3:25 p.m. Last Modified: Friday, March 13, 2009 at 3:29 p.m. Mel Tillis made it to the Country Music Hall of Fame last year and this year he's going to be honored by his ...

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Related Topix: Comedy Movies, Every Which Way But Loose, Marion County, FL, Country, Florida, Jacksonville, FL, Ocala, FL

Bakersfield Californian

David Copperfield, country star Mel Tillis coming to town

Can David Copperfield make a country boy and two dirty rotten scoundrels disappear? Hope not, because Bakersfield would miss a few coming attractions.

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Related Topix: Country, Bakersfield Metro, Bakersfield, CA, Theater, Arts

Sat Feb 07, 2009

Sweethomenews.com

Jamboree signs Mel Tillis, Tracy Lawrence

Country music legend Mel Tillis and Tracy Lawrence have been added to the 2009 Oregon Jamboree lineup.

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Related Topix: Crime Movies, Action, Comedy Movies, Smokey and the Bandit II, Every Which Way But Loose, Tracy Lawrence, Country, Webb Pierce, Bobby Bare

Thu Feb 05, 2009

CMT.com

New Hall of Famer Charlie McCoy Is a Multi-Threat Talent

When Charlie McCoy was working as a studio musician on Bob Dylan 's "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" at Columbia's studio in Nashville, Dylan's mouth reportedly dropped open in amazement during a rehearsal when he ...

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Bob Dylan, Miami Metro, Country

The Nashville City Paper

Three new members join Country Music Hall of Fame

Roy Clark, along with Charlie McCoy and Barbara Mandrell, were inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame on Wednesday.

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Related Topix: Roy Clark, Country, Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters, Entertainment, Television, Barbara Mandrell

Tue Jan 20, 2009

The Macon Telegraph

Attitude goes beyond words

There are times when Marty Dean's mind and mouth don't operate at the same speed.

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Related Topix: Country, US Military, Robins Air Force Base, US Air Force

Mon Jan 05, 2009

NPR

The Time Jumpers Beat The Time Clock

January 5, 2009 - Every day in Nashville, hundreds of musicians sign time cards and put in nine-hour days at recording studios for whomever is paying the bill.

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Related Topix: Bluegrass, Alison Krauss, Ray Price, Country, The Osborne Brothers, Riders in the Sky

Wed Dec 31, 2008

Laughlin Entertainer

Laughlin Has You Covered for Your New Year's Eve Celebrations

So. What are you doing for New Year's Eve? That is the question that begs answering every year.

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Related Topix: Laughlin, NV, Life, Holidays, New Year's Day/Eve, Country

Wed Dec 24, 2008

Laughlin Entertainer

Mel Tillis Performs Shows at Riverside Resort

It seems like just yesterday that I left Florida headin' for Nashville, Tennessee in my '49 Mercury with a busted windshield, a pregnant wife and $29 in my pocket.

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Related Topix: Country, Nashville Metro, Nashville, TN, Kenny Rogers, Bobby Bare, Willie Nelson & Waylon Jennings

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