Pam Tillis
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Pam Tillis Biography
The daughter of country legend Mel Tillis, Pam Tillis made her
own way in the music business, eventually becoming a contemporary
country star in the '90s. Tillis was born on July 24, 1957, in Plant
City, FL, but raised mostly in Nashville and started taking piano
lessons at age eight. She switched to guitar at 12 and played in talent
contests during her teenage years. Somewhat wild and rebellious, she
survived a near-fatal car crash at age 16 that required extensive
facial reconstruction. Fortunately, she recovered fully and pursued
music aggressively at the University of Tennessee, singing with the
High Country Swing Band (which played country-rock and jug band music)
and in a folk duo with Ashley Cleveland. She quit school in 1976 and
worked at her father's publishing company, placing her composition
I'll Meet You on the Other Side of the Morning with Barbara
Fairchild. She also formed her own backing band, which soon relocated
to the San Francisco Bay Area and renamed themselves Freelight; they
developed an adventurous style based on jazz and rock, not country.
Tillis returned to Nashville in 1979, though, and sang backup for her
father while raising her first child as a single parent, fronting an
R&B band, and continuing to write songs, a couple of which were
recorded by Gloria Gaynor and Chaka Khan.
Tillis performed regularly at Nashville's Bluebird Cafe with several
other female singer/songwriters and landed a deal with Warner Brothers
in the early '80s. She released one album, the pop-oriented Above and
Beyond the Doll of Cutey, in 1983 and had her first chart single the
following year with Goodbye HIghway. Several more singles were
released through 1987, but none even managed to make the Top 50; even
so, Tillis was making her name as a songwriter for Tree Publishing,
with compositions recorded by Highway 101 and Conway Twitty, among
others. In 1989, the same year she acted in a Tennessee production of
Jesus Christ Superstar, she landed a new deal with Arista. Tillis
released her label debut, Put Yourself in My Place, in 1991, and the
lead single, Don't Tell Me What to Do, raced into the Top Five,
giving Tillis her long-awaited breakthrough. Of the album's five total
singles, One of Those Things and Maybe It Was Memphis also made the
Top Ten (as did the album). 1992's Homeward Looking Angel was an
equally successful follow-up, with Shake the Sugar Tree and Let That
Pony Run both making the Top Five.
Tillis co-produced her third Arista album, 1994's Sweetheart's Dance,
which proved to be her most successful yet and earned her the ACM's
award for Female Vocalist of the Year. Spilled Perfume, When You
Walk in the Room, and In Between Dances all went Top Five, and Mi
Vida Loca (My Crazy Life) became her first ever number one hit.
Released in late 1995, All of This Love was the first album Tillis
produced by herself, and gave her Top Tens in Deep Down and The
River and the Highway. Two new songs from 1997's Greatest Hits
compilation, All the Good Ones Are Gone and Land of the Living,
both went Top Five as well. 1998's Every Time reflected her recent
divorce from songwriter Bob DiPiero and gave her a near-Top Ten hit in
I Said a Prayer. A reshuffling at Arista delayed the release of
Thunder and Roses until 2001, so in the meantime Tillis performed on
Broadway in the Leiber & Stoller tribute production Smokey Joe's
Cafe. Thunder and Roses found Tillis' commercial momentum slowing down,
and she and Arista subsequently parted ways. She caught on at Epic's
roots subsidiary Lucky Dog and debuted for them in 2002 with It's All
Relative: Tillis Sings Tillis, a collection of her father's material
that finally found her embracing his legacy on her own terms.
Rhinestoned appeared in 2007 from Stellar Cat Records. ~ Steve Huey,
All Music Guide
Written by Steve Huey