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Remembering Mel Tillis -- Country Crossover With Some Surprising Influence

Remembering Mel Tillis — Country Crossover With Some Surprising Influence

November 20, 2017November 21, 2017 Rick Bolger
The country music world lost one of its greats recently.  In the world of popular song, Mel Tillis might best be remembered as one of the “country crossover” artists in the late 1970s an... Read More

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