Mel Tillis would have turned 93 today—a stuttering storyteller with an easy grin whose songs, humor, and twang left a lasting mark on country music. Tillis died in 2017 following a long battle with ...
This week in 1979: 272 passengers died in the worst plane crash in history, Margaret Thatcher became the first British woman Prime Minister, a 28 year old lab technician named Karen Silkwood was ...
It was Clint "Dirty Harry" Eastwood who ultimately persuaded Mel Tillis to record the tunes "Coca-Cola Cowboy" and "Send Me Down to Tucson." Eastwood invited Tillis to San Diego in the late 1970s to ...