Equal parts genius and screwball, Roger Miller was one of the finest songwriters and most colorful characters to ever walk Nashville streets. (Or ride a motor scooter down them: In 1961, Miller, who reportedly had 30 unpaid parking tickets at the time, told The Tennessean that he purchased said scooter to “escape the meter maids.”)
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On This Day
- On this day December 28, 1965Johnny Cash pleaded guilty to drug possession in El Paso, Texas, where he was arrested in October with over 1,000 pills. A related newspaper photo stated the Ku Klux Klan was to boycott Cash concerts under the misguided premise that Cash's wife was black.
