Mel Tills won the Country Music Association's Entertainer of the Year award in 1976, the same year he also won Comedian of the Year from Music City News. In fact, he won six of those fan-voted awards ...

Across a nearly 60-year career, Mel Tillis shined, first as a Nashville songwriter and later as one of country music’s top recording stars. After years of quality singles and growing notoriety as ...

Country music singer Mel Tillis is almost as well-known for his stories as he is for his songs. And fans at his Deadwood concert are bound to get a dose of the humor that’s buoyed him through life as ...

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 ...

When Florida native and Nashville legend Mel Tillis was in Tallahassee during March 2009 to be inducted into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame, I pushed my way to the front of the crowd at the ...

Mel Tillis, who died Sunday at 85, was known to the casual country fan for being a guy who cracked good-natured jokes about his stutter on Hee Haw, but he was also responsible for writing some of the ...

Mel Tillis, whose career as a country singer and the writer of enduring hit songs like “Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love to Town” earned him a place in the Country Music Hall of Fame and a National Medal of ...