Artist Biography - Mel Tillis

Mel Tillis


	Home Biographies On The Fringe Artist Profile Archives News Flash Message Board Reader's Poll Fan Pics Photo Album Merchandise Artist Websites Related Sites Website Resources Contact Us Get the latest Countrypolitan news! Join our mailing list today! Click Here				Country music great Mel Tillis started his performing career in the early 1950's with a group called the Westerners while serving as a baker in the United States Air Force, stationed in Okinawa, Japan. In 1956, Webb Pierce's recording of Mel's song "I'm Tired" launched his musical career. In 1976, Mel was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters International Hall of Fame, and that same year was named the Country Music Association's Entertainer of the Year. Mel's songs have been recorded by such artists as Brenda Lee, Charley Pride and Ricky Skaggs, The Oak Ridge Boys, George Strait, and Kenny Rogers' version of "Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town". One of Mel's albums, entitled "Beyond the Sunset", received the Great Empire Broadcasting Album of the Year award in 1993. Now his most recent release, "Old Dogs", recorded with Waylon Jennings, Jerry Reed, and Bobby Bare, has recently received a nomination by the CMA as Vocal Event of the year for 1999. Born in Tampa and raised in Pahokee, Florida, Mel has appeared in more than a dozen feature films including "Every Which Way but Loose" with Clint Eastwood, "W.W. & the Dixie Dancekings", "Cannonball Run" I and II, and "Smokey and the Bandit II" with Burt Reynolds, and the lead with Roy Clark in "Uphill All the Way". Most recently Mel filmed "Bandit: Must Be Country" which is the first of four action comedies inspired by the blockbuster hit film "Smokey and the Bandit". He has starred in several television movies, among them "Murder in Music City" and "A Country Christmas Carol". Mel has also appeared on such television shows as 20/20, The Tonight Show, Music City Tonight, 60 Minutes, and countless others. *From Mel Tillis' Official Website.*

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