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
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.
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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.
No, my son's a songwriter and he does that.
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.
Well, you know, back then there wasn't many albums, it was the singles. You sold singles.
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.
You know, being an entertainer is partly being on the road, and a lot of your songs come from the road.
Well, no, you can prepare it all you want, but I'd still stutter.