Pam Tillis to make concert video at Renaissance Center on April 2

Release Date: 3/1/2005. Expired: 4/2/2005

Country superstar Pam Tillis is returning to Dickson to make a concert video almost 14 years after making the music video to her first number one song at locations in Dickson County.

Tillis, the 1994 Country Music Association Female Vocalist of the Year, will perform Saturday, April 2, in the Performance Hall of The Renaissance Center in Dickson. Tickets for the 7 p.m. show are $20. The concert will be videotaped by the center’s award-winning Multimedia Department for release on DVD and VHS.

In 1991, Tillis used locations in Montgomery Bell State Park and other areas around Dickson to make the video for her breakout single, the Harlan Howard-penned Don’t Tell Me What to Do. The song, from her debut country album Put Yourself in My Place, became the first of her six chart-topping singles so far.

That launched Tillis out of the shadow of her famous father, Grand Ole Opry member Mel Tillis, and into a career of her own that so far includes more than 6 million albums sold, 15 CMA nominations (including five for Female Vocalist of the Year), 14 top-five singles, a role in a Broadway musical and appearances on two top television series.

Pam’s mantel at her home in Brentwood is lined with awards including Grammys for Same Old Train, winner of the Best Country Collaboration award in 1998, and Livin’, Lovin’ and Losin’: Songs of the Louvin Brothers, winner of the 2003 Grammy for Best Country Album and the 2004 International Bluegrass Music Association’s Recorded Event of the Year award. She also was a part of George Jones’ I Don’t Need Your Rocking Chair, which won the 1993 CMA award for Vocal Event of the Year.

Tillis made her Grand Ole Opry debut singing Tom Dooley at age eight and began working as a backup vocalist, demo singer, club performer and songwriter. It wasn’t long before she started singing national jingles for companies like Hardee’s, Equal Sweetener, Coors and Coca-Cola.

Her songs showed up on albums by Chaka Khan, Conway Twitty, Juice Newton, Ricky Van Shelton, Martina McBride, Dan Seals, Janie Fricke and Highway 101, which scored a hit with her Someone Else’s Trouble Now.

She appeared in a Tennessee Repertory Theatre production of Jesus Christ Superstar and then teamed with Karen Staley, Ashley Cleveland and Tricia Walker to launch the Women in the Round songwriter showcase at the famed Bluebird Café.

As country music soared in popularity in the early 1990s, Tillis signed with Arista Records, joining a roster that included Brooks and Dunn, Diamond Rio and Alan Jackson. Her 1991 debut album not only earned Tillis CMA Horizon Award nominations in 1991 and ’92, but also produced her monster hit Maybe It Was Memphis, which has become her signature song.

Hits continued to follow, including Cleopatra, Queen of Denial, Shake the Sugar Tree, Let That Pony Run, Mi Vida Loca and All the Good Ones Are Gone, a new single on her 1997 Greatest Hits album that earned a Grammy nomination.

Tillis added theatre to her resume when she appeared in the Tony-nominated Broadway musical Smokey Joe’s Café and then conquered television with appearances on the Emmy-nominated Touched by an Angel and Dick Van Dyke’s Diagnosis Murder.

After trying to avoid her famous father’s spotlight by starting out as a jazz singer in California, trying rock and roll, pop and punk, Tillis blazed her own path in country music, becoming a member of the Grand Ole Opry in 2000.

In 2002 Tillis fulfilled a lifelong dream when she appeared in Vogue, InStyle and Redbook magazines in a national campaign for Easy Spirit shoes.

Firmly entrenched in the upper echelon of songwriters, singers and producers in Nashville, Tillis eagerly embraced her family legacy with her 2002 release of It’s All Relative: Tillis Sings Tillis, on which she presents 13 songs written by her father in duets with Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, Marty Stuart, Trisha Yearwood, The Jordanaires, Delbert McClinton and Ray Benson of Asleep at the Wheel, as well as other Tillis siblings and grandchildren.

Over the years, Tillis has proved that she can sing any genre of music, from jazz to rock, from torch to blues, from bluegrass to country. She has acted on stage and television, been a model, written hit songs, sold millions of albums, produced records, won awards and sung before millions of fans around the world. With It’s All Relative, Pam Tillis proudly announced that she is Mel Tillis’ daughter and paid tribute to one of her biggest fans.

Now, more than a decade after she zipped around Montgomery Bell State Park in a convertible for her Don’t Tell Me What to Do music video, Tillis brings her show to Dickson to play all her hits and to showcase music from her brand new unreleased album in concert in the world-class facilities of The Renaissance Center.

Tickets are on sale now at $20 and available by calling (615)740-5570.

For more information on the concert and videotaping, call The Renaissance Center at (615)740-5600 or visit its Web site at www.rcenter.org. The Renaissance Center is an arts and technology education and performing arts center at 855 Highway 46 South in Dickson, just 35 miles west of Nashville on Interstate 40 at exit 172.

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