RIP Mel Tillis

Another country great gone to that big ranch in the sky.....

Mel Tillis, Country Music Singer-Songwriter and CMA Hall of Famer, Dies at 85

Mel Tillis, country music singer and songwriter, has died, the Country Hall of Fame confirmed in a statement. He was 85.

According to the Tennessean, Tillis died early Sunday morning at the Munroe Regional Medical Center in Ocala, Fla. after almost two years of ill health stemming from a bout of diverticulitis, for which he received surgery. The suspected cause of death is respiratory failure.

Tillis began recording in the late 1950s and continued to perform through 2015, but remained best known for a string of No. 1 country hits in the late ’70s, along with a succession of appearances in Hollywood movies alongside Burt Reynolds and Clint Eastwood that helped make him a household name even outside the country music sphere.

http://variety.com/2017/music/news/mel-tillis-dies-dead-1202618649/

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