too, like "Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town." This song was written by Mel Tillis, and it's been recorded by everyone from Waylon Jennings to George Jones to Roger Miller. But it's Rogers' plaintive, desperate vocal inflections that really lend fuel to this ...
too, like "Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town." This song was written by Mel Tillis, and it's been recorded by everyone from Waylon Jennings to George Jones to Roger Miller. But it's Rogers' plaintive, desperate vocal inflections that really lend fuel to this ...
contained two topical covers key to Rogers’ career. The despondent title track, which was written by Mel Tillis, is about a paralyzed veteran of a “crazy Asian war” (either Korean or Vietnam) who grows inflamed and paranoid that his young wife is fixing to step out with suitors....
andpsychedelicmusic—had a few hits, including “Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In),”“Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love to Town” (written byMel Tillis), “Reuben James,” and “Something’s Burning.” The band also hostedRollin’ on the River(1971–73), a varie...
written for visual media. In 2014 she released the albumUltraviolence, which debuted at number one on theBillboard200 chart. That same year she recorded the title song forTim Burton’s filmBig Eyesand “Once upon a Dream” for theDisneyfilmMaleficent. By this time, the type of gloomy...
Gill and Franklin offer an early look at the project through a rendition of “Kissing Your Picture (Is So Cold),” which was written by Mel Tillis, Price and Wayne Walker. Gill’s incandescent tenor easily encapsulates the song’s loneliness, matched by the acuity of Franklin’s...
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Mel Tillis, “Life Turned Her That Way” Songwriting great Harlan Howard — the man who defined country music as “three chords and the truth” — masterfully straddles the line “sympathetic” and “kind of patronizing” in this sharp appraisal of how a history of heartbreak left a woman “...
Pam Tillis, ‘Maybe It Was Memphis’ 1991 Paul Natkin/WireImage Pam Tillis was one of the most luminous stars of the 1990s country boom, with her unique mix of twang, sass, and soul. It’s in her blood: Her dad, Mel Tillis, was a Nashville legend, with classic hits like “Midnight...
Songs remain sensitive to human experience, Mel Tillis says. (Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)Rush, Diane Samms