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If anybody has any insights on any of the following, it'd be much appreciated.

Mel Tellis

Tanya Tucker

Brad Paisley

thanks, in advance.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 18:44 (twenty years ago)

Mel Tillis carshed his car into a pool on Cannonball Run.

That's all I's got.

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 18:47 (twenty years ago)

tanya tucker covered suzi quatro's "tear me apart" once. her two-album post-disco hard rock glamabilly period somewhat mirrored olivia newton-john's same, and it is very much worth explorting.

― xhuxk, Tuesday, 28 June 2005 18:53 (twenty years ago)

brad paisley once said in an interview that more people should sit on their porches and make music. charlie robison called him a fucking idiot for saying that.

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 19:03 (twenty years ago)

Did Paisley mean more People People or more People® People?

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 19:05 (twenty years ago)

how the huk-l should I know?

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 19:09 (twenty years ago)

(stutterin') mel tillis is fun (he did "have you ever been lonely?" with ernest tubb worth hearing). i can't stomach tucker or paisley much, from what i've heard of them, but i'm a snob for older country.

― the temptation of wheat (the temptation of wheat), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 19:15 (twenty years ago)

why the fuck shouldnt more people sit on their porches and make music. i say, if you have a porch, take advantage of it and go out there and make a pleasing sound to the lord.

― AaronK (AaronK), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 19:16 (twenty years ago)

until that gretchen wilson song came out, i always thought it was pronouned "TON-ya," not "TAN-ya."

Mel Tillis is Pam Tillis's dad. She could be kinda weird sometimes! Her video about "Cleopatra, queen of denial" is a classic. I have another album at home where she does some stuff that sort of crosses mid/late '80s Pat Benatar with Kate Bush's more poppy side. Kinda.

Also, I believe Mel was known to st-st-st-stutter now and then.

― xhuxk, Tuesday, 28 June 2005 19:21 (twenty years ago)

In his underground days, Brad Paisley was a member of either Dream Syndicate, Rain Parade, or Green on Red, but he does not remember which.

― xhuxk, Tuesday, 28 June 2005 19:22 (twenty years ago)

For Tanya Tucker also look for the LP What's Your Mama's Name. Tucker sounds great, the songs are good and Billy Sherrill nails the sound. It's a perfect combination of the lushness of his typical countrypolitan productions and the funkiness of country-soul and the outlaw stuff. "Blood Red And Goin' Down" is especially awesome. The other Sherrill-produced albums from the same period like Delta Dawn and Would You Lay With Me are also very good. Don't know much about her later career.

― Gunderson, Tuesday, 28 June 2005 19:30 (twenty years ago)

>her two-album post-disco hard rock glamabilly period<

i.e.: *TNT* (1978) and *Tear Me Apart* (1979)

the '80s LPs here look very '80s, so maybe they're worth checking out, too? i dunno, but now i'm kind of interested:

http://www.luma-electronic.cz/lp/t/Tucker/tanya1.htm

― xhuxk, Tuesday, 28 June 2005 19:41 (twenty years ago)

This sounds like it must be an awesome song: "Man That Turned My Mama On "

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 19:43 (twenty years ago)

Oh yeah, that one is completely killer as well. Seriously funky as described above.

― Gunderson, Tuesday, 28 June 2005 19:50 (twenty years ago)

I've got a decent double LP greatest hits by Mel Tillis. I actually bought it because a number of his early 70s hits featured great pedal steel solos by Buddy Emmons. Mel had a good voice and did some great material, too. Conway Twitty from the same era is better, though.
If I'm not mistaken, Mel Tillis held the world record for talk show appearances at one point.

― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 20:33 (twenty years ago)

you can go to to meltillis.com and see some of his artwork!

Mel was the 1998 spokesman and honorary chairman for the Stuttering Foundation of America. I'm not sure if he ever did the rockabilly classic "Stutterin' Cindy," but he should have!

he wrote "Detroit City," done well by Bobby Bare and done even better by Solomon Burke on his "King Solomon" album.

He enjoys watching the University of Florida play football.

And does Gretchen Wilson have anything over on Tanya?

― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 20:35 (twenty years ago)

Brad Paisley makes me scream like Little Richard at a B2K concert. He did a really pretty duet with Alison Krauss last year called "Whiskey Lullaby," which would have been in my P&J singles list if I could have included 20 entries instead of 10. Haven't heard much else from him that I can recall, though.

The only Tanya Tucker I've heard was her sole Top 40 hit, "Lizzie and the Rain Man," a story song right out of the mold of "Delta Dawn" and such.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 20:45 (twenty years ago)

>pretty duet with Alison Krauss last year called "Whiskey Lullaby,"<

"put the bottle to my head and pulled the trigger"! Cracks me up every time. (but yes, the song is indeed very pretty, i admit it.)

― xhuxk, Tuesday, 28 June 2005 20:51 (twenty years ago)

Mel Tillis doesn't like to go fishing with Shoji Tabuchi because Tabuchi always winds up eating all of the bait.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 20:52 (twenty years ago)

as I think I've said before, Paisley is a hell of a guitarist. sure love to hear him do a super-pickin' instrumental album, a Man and His Guitar, do some old Booker T. things and Freddie King and hell, the Ventures, "Nashville West" or "Lover of the Bayou" (Chuck's bit on the Byrds LP "Untitled" in his heavy metal book got me listening to this again recently).

― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 22:44 (twenty years ago)

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