{"id":1635,"date":"2018-06-22T08:24:53","date_gmt":"2018-06-22T07:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/?p=1635"},"modified":"2018-06-22T08:24:53","modified_gmt":"2018-06-22T07:24:53","slug":"roger-miller-tribute-album-king-of-the-road-to-feature-eric-church-kacey-musgraves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/index.php\/2018\/06\/22\/roger-miller-tribute-album-king-of-the-road-to-feature-eric-church-kacey-musgraves\/","title":{"rendered":"Roger Miller Tribute Album &#8216;King of the Road&#8217; to Feature Eric Church, Kacey Musgraves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Equal parts genius and screwball, Roger Miller\u00a0was one of the finest songwriters and most colorful characters to ever walk Nashville streets. (Or ride a motor scooter down them:\u00a0In 1961, Miller, who reportedly had 30 unpaid parking tickets at the time, told The Tennessean that he purchased said scooter to &#8220;escape the meter maids.&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>His songs transcended genre. They topped country and pop charts and were performed everywhere from\u00a0Broadway to &#8220;The Muppet Show.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Roger Miller was part Hank Williams, part Will Rogers, yet a wholly original talent with a densely populated mind from which sprang some of the most noteworthy and enduring songs of the 1960s. Amid the yeah-yeah-yeahs of the British Invasion and the protests that &#8220;The Times They Are a-Changin&#8217;,&#8221; Miller was a poet of the uncommon (or sometimes just plain weird) man whose quirky hobo anthem, &#8220;King of the Road,&#8221; was positively average compared to many of his other oddball compositions, including &#8220;Dang Me,&#8221; &#8220;Chug-a-Lug&#8221; and &#8220;You Can&#8217;t Rollerskate in a Buffalo Herd.&#8221;<\/p>\n<aside class=\"module-related card-container\">\n<article class=\"module-related-article\"><\/article>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Influential for his extraordinary songcraft and revered for his offbeat humor, Roger Miller&#8217;s artistry will be the subject of a genre-hopping two-disc tribute LP, out August 31st. In the works since 2015 but beset by repeated delays, which is hardly surprising given the array of artists involved,\u00a0<i>King of the Road\u00a0<\/i>was co-produced by the legendary artist&#8217;s son, singer-songwriter Dean Miller, with Colby Barnum Wright of Wright of Center Music, and features a dazzling lineup that includes Dolly Parton, Ringo Starr, Brad Paisley, Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Merle Haggard (in one of his last recordings), Kacey Musgraves and Eric Church.<\/p>\n<p>Also featured are contributions from Loretta Lynn, Asleep at the Wheel, Rodney Crowell and actor John Goodman, who originated the role of Pap Finn in the Eighties Broadway musical\u00a0<i>Big River<\/i>, which featured Miller&#8217;s Tony Award-winning original songs, based on Mark Twain&#8217;s\u00a0<i>The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn<\/i>. Owing to Miller&#8217;s influence outside of mainstream country music are offerings from alt-rock bands Toad the Wet Sprocket and Cake, and Americana, folk and bluegrass artists including Daphne and the Mystery Machines, the Dead South and Earls of Leicester featuring Shawn Camp, among others.<\/p>\n<iframe  id=\"_ytid_64192\"  width=\"676\" height=\"507\"  data-origwidth=\"676\" data-origheight=\"507\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Qk_hPTN50UE?enablejsapi=1&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&rel=0&fs=1&playsinline=1&autohide=2&hl=en_US&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe>\n<p>While Miller&#8217;s dizzying wordplay was legendary, he could also pen heart-rending ballads such as &#8220;The Last Word in Lonesome Is Me.&#8221; Originally featured on his third LP, released in 1965, the song later became a Number Two hit for Eddy Arnold and was also recorded in 1976 by NFL great Terry Bradshaw. For\u00a0<i>King of the Road<\/i>, the song is placed in the capable hands of Dolly Parton and Alison Krauss. The stone-country tune is distinguished not only by the two angelic voices but also by the presence of fiddle, yet another tribute to Miller, who played that instrument in Grand Ole Opry comic legend Minnie Pearl&#8217;s band before his own career took off in the early Sixties, with an unprecedented 11 Grammys won in a two-year period.<\/p>\n<p>Roger Miller succumbed to cancer in 1992 at age 56. In 1995, the year Miller was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame, Alan Jackson had a Number One country hit with the songwriter&#8217;s &#8220;Tall, Tall Trees.&#8221; Brooks &amp; Dunn topped the chart in 1998 with his 1966 hit, &#8220;Husbands and Wives.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><i>King of the Road<\/i>\u00a0track listing:<\/p>\n<p>1. &#8220;Chug-a-Lug,&#8221; Asleep at the Wheel featuring Huey Lewis<br \/>\n2. &#8220;Dang Me,&#8221; Brad Paisley<br \/>\n3. &#8220;Leaving&#8217;s Not the Only Way to Go,&#8221; The Stellas and Lennon &amp; Maisy<br \/>\n4. &#8220;Kansas City\u00a0Star,&#8221; Kacey Musgraves<br \/>\n5. &#8220;World So Full of Love,&#8221; Rodney Crowell<br \/>\n6. &#8220;Old Friends,&#8221; Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson and Merle Haggard<br \/>\n7. &#8220;Lock, Stock and Teardrops,&#8221; Mandy Barnett<br \/>\n8. &#8220;You Oughta Be Here With Me,&#8221; Alison Krauss featuring the Cox Family<br \/>\n9. &#8220;The Crossing,&#8221; Ronnie Dunn and the Blind Boys of\u00a0Alabama<br \/>\n10. &#8220;In the Summertime,&#8221; The Earls of Leicester featuring Shawn Camp<br \/>\n11. &#8220;England\u00a0Swings,&#8221; Lyle Lovett<br \/>\n12. &#8220;You Can&#8217;t Rollerskate in a\u00a0Buffalo\u00a0Herd,&#8221; Various Artists<br \/>\n13. &#8220;Half a Mind,&#8221; Loretta Lynn<br \/>\n14. &#8220;Invitation to the Blues,&#8221; Shooter\u00a0Jennings\u00a0and Jessi Colter<br \/>\n15. &#8220;It Only Hurts Me When I Cry&#8221; (Live), Dwight Yoakam<br \/>\n16. &#8220;Hey, Would You Hold It Down?&#8221; Ringo Starr<br \/>\n17. &#8220;Engine, Engine #9,&#8221; Emerson Hart featuring Jon Randall<br \/>\n18. &#8220;When Two Worlds Collide,&#8221; Flatt Lonesome<br \/>\n19. &#8220;Oo De Lolly,&#8221; Eric Church<br \/>\n20. &#8220;Reincarnation,&#8221; Cake<br \/>\n21. &#8220;You Can&#8217;t Do Me This Way,&#8221; Dean Miller featuring the McCrary Sisters<br \/>\n22. &#8220;Nothing Can Stop Me,&#8221; Toad the Wet Sprocket<br \/>\n23. &#8220;Husbands and Wives,&#8221; Jamey Johnson featuring Emmylou Harris<br \/>\n24. &#8220;Pick Up My Heart,&#8221; Lily Meola<br \/>\n25. &#8220;I Believe in the Sunshine,&#8221; Daphne and the Mystery Machines<br \/>\n26. &#8220;Guv&#8217;ment,&#8221; John Goodman<br \/>\n27. &#8220;The Last Word in Lonesome Is Me,&#8221; Dolly Parton featuring Alison Krauss<br \/>\n28. &#8220;I&#8217;d Come Back to Me,&#8221; Radney Foster featuring Tawnya Reynolds<br \/>\n29. &#8220;One Dying and a Burying,&#8221; The Dead South<br \/>\n30. &#8220;Do Wacka Do,&#8221; Robert Earl Keen, Jr.<br \/>\n31. &#8220;King of the Road,&#8221; Various Artists<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Equal parts genius and screwball, Roger Miller\u00a0was one of the finest songwriters and most colorful characters to ever walk Nashville streets. (Or ride a motor scooter down them:\u00a0In 1961, Miller, who reportedly had 30 unpaid parking tickets at the time, told The Tennessean that he purchased said scooter to &#8220;escape the meter maids.&#8221;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1632,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[39,15,234,235],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/roger_miller_hero_74283732.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1635"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1636,"href":"https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1635\/revisions\/1636"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}