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 ...
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 ...