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Grand Ole Opry star Bill Anderson says he'll be telling new stories about the late singer-songwriter Roger Miller when he appears at the seventh annual Roger Miller Music & Arts Festival Saturday in Erick, Okla., Miller's hometown.

Buzz Otis' vocal cords were the hot commodity at the 40th annual HIPOW closing auction and black tie dinner Saturday night.

Stages St. Louis has announced their 2010 summer season. It will include BIG RIVER, PROMISES, PROMISES, and STATE FAIR as its three musicals.

Renegade music producer, record executive, song hunter and promoter Shelby Singleton Jr., a Shreveport-reared music upstart who helped fuse country and R&B music in the 1960s and perpetuated the Sun Records label since 1969, died Wednesday in Nashville, Tenn.

Brad Paisley is scheduled to perform on Thursday, October 1. Somewhere along the way - probably after Garth Brooks invented the "arena country" genre in the early '90s - country music lost its sense of humor in the quest for pop crossover moolah.

Ruby Wright, the singing daughter of Johnny Wright and Queen of Country Music Kitty Wells, was found dead on Sunday at her Madison apartment.

Roger Miller is best known for his humorous novelty songs, which overshadow his considerable songwriting talents as well as his hardcore honky tonk roots.

They're smiling, even though for the last hour they've been put through the paces.

By PUNCH SHAW ARLINGTON - All the talk out of Arlington lately has been about sports franchises and the house that Jerry built.But if you want to see an outfit that is really knocking it out of the park and putting it through the uprights, buy a ticket for Theatre Arlington's superb production of Big River , a musical adaptation of Mark Twain's ...

Easton native Nathan Lee performs Sept. 22 at Broadway Pub, Bangor, as part of a tour of 40 free shows in 40 cities to promote his new CD 'Risk Everything.' September 21, 2009 Easton native Nathan Lee says he once went from owning a six-figure-a-year business to being homeless and sleeping in his car to pursue music.

There are few country singers today that have the stories of Larry Gatlin , lead singer of the Gatlin Brothers .

Theatre Arlington presents: 'Big River' As the creative basis for a musical, it's pretty tough to beat Big River's combination of a Mark Twain story with lyrics and music by Roger Miller.

Ohio State University officials sent e-mails and fliers to students during the summer to teach them about swine flu before they moved back to campus.

Roger Miller stopped the truck and slightly squinted at a speck far in the distance.

AN vacation unleashed the pent-up cry: Road trip! * In Bakersfield, I pulled off the freeway to track down Dewar's, an old-fashioned ice cream parlor opened in 1909.

Singing hopeful Ashwin Abinashi has returned for a second attempt at The X Factor auditions.

Mud Joe got an oil man's send-off this week. When I walked into the chapel to say "goodbye" I didn't hear the typical funeral music.

Standard-Examiner staff MARRIOTT-SLATERVILLE -- Anyone willing to adopt 15 geese could potentially solve a neighborhood squabble in Marriott-Slaterville. Roger Miller, who lives on Pioneer Road, has owned a dog kennel and 15 geese that have roamed the neighborhood since 1988.