Mel Tillis
Mel Tillis
Lonnie Melvin "Mel" Tillisis an American country music singer and songwriter. Although he recorded songs since the late 1950s, his biggest success occurred in the 1970s, with a long list of Top 10 hits...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCountry Singer
Date of Birth8 August 1932
CityDover, FL
CountryUnited States of America
leave open sundays year
So when I leave here at the first of the year it'll become... well, it's already open on Sundays as a church. But it'll be a full-time church.
drawer finish full hard shows sit sock songs
I've got a sock drawer full of songs that I've started but, you know, I'm doing two shows a day here and it's just hard to sit down and finish them.
american-musician began front happened knew people
And I began to tell little anecdotes that had happened to me, and people would laugh. And I began to like that, you know. But I knew that, 'cause I'd do that in school, but I wouldn't do it out there in front of all them people.
country radio stations
But in those days - in the mid-'50s, early '60s - there was less than 300 radio stations that were playing country music and a lot of that wasn't full time.
dog wife care
And I had to take care of a little dog too named Suzy. It was the promoter's wife's - Judy Lynn's - it was her dog. And one of my duties going on the tour was to take care of it.
song cities ideas
But I've got a lot of ideas, I bought me a ranch in Florida and I still have my farm in Ashland City, Tennessee so I'm gonna spend a little time at each one of those places and you'll probably hear some more songs out of me.
two casinos here-and-there
I'm gonna do between 75 and 100 dates. A lot of it will be in Laughlin, Nevada; I'll be there for two weeks. And I'll work some casinos here and there, and the fair dates.
mother thinking guitar
And my daddy could play a harmonica and also the guitar, so I guess I got a little bit from both of 'em, but I think mostly from my mother's side of the family.
school found
And then, when I started to school, I found out I couldn't talk.
scripts cards stuttering
But if you put a script up in front of me to read, or a cue card, I couldn't do it without stuttering.
air okinawa passed-away
I didn't get to meet Hank Williams. I was in the Air Force on Okinawa when he passed away.
years next-year palaces
I'll do about 13 shows in Branson next year, and I'll be performing at the Grand Palace.
mother brother play
You know, it comes from my mother's side of the family. She had seven sisters and one brother, and all of them could play instruments. I suppose I picked it up from that.