Roger was responsible for making country music cool to the pop music world. It was a brand new thing to get that kind of respect.” Roger Miller went on to have an even bigger hit with “King of the ...

Roger Miller first recorded this classic for his own Words and Music album. It continued the success he had achieved with “Dang Me” and “King of the Road.” The song reached No. 5 on the Billboard ...

The Fair has always taken the Los Angeles area demographics into careful consideration while booking artists. “If you go back ...

It’s just the ninth album to complete country music’s “triple crown” by ... for best country & western album in 1965 and 1966. Roger Miller won both years. The Grammys didn’t present ...

You’ll also hear classics by Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Roger Miller and more with timeless songs such as Hound Dog, Crazy ...

Few songwriters have had as profound an effect on country music as Kris Kristofferson ... a janitor at Columbia recording studios. After Roger Miller took his “Me and Bobby McGee” to No ...

That's especially true in country music, where the words seem to pull on your heartstrings a little harder as the steel guitar plays, and someone like Hank Williams or Merle Haggard sings about ...

To say the very least, country music has seen a great deal of change throughout the decades. From its origins in the 1930s to the present, the genre has spanned a truly impressive range of sounds ...

I live in Nashville and write about music. Larry Gatlin ... “Mickey Newberry, Roger Miller, Dottie West, and Dolly Parton. If you want to listen to what real life is like, go listen to ...

As country music evolved, its greatest artists never created their music in a vacuum. They were influenced by their own experiences, of course, but also by the other types of American music they ...

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