http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2002-2006 by the authors Tue, 18 Jul 2006 17:19:19 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/01/02/220347.php#comment-410018 Hi, there is a Roger Miller book available now - I wrote it, you can get a signed copy from www.doitwithstyle.com or order it from your local bookstore - also available online. Here's a review from The New York Times: AIN'T GOT NO CIGARETTES: Memories of Music Legend Roger Miller. By Lyle E Style. (Great Plains Publications, paper, $19.95.) When you've got a name like Lyle E Style, your only career options are playing point guard for the Kentucky Colonels circa 1973 or chronicling country music, and readers should be grateful that Style has chosen the latter path. In this collection of Q. and A.'s with dozens of illustrious country artists and fixtures of the Nashville scene, he ostensibly recounts the life of the musician and raconteur Roger Miller, of "King of the Road" and "Dang Me" fame, who died of cancer in 1992. But through a quirk of deliberate or accidental genius, what Style has actually assembled is a living document of country music in its hootin', hollerin' outlaw heyday, when the D.J. Captain Midnight ruled the airwaves, Tootsie's Orchid Lounge was the ultimate hangout and everyone, it seems, was on cocaine — even the mimes. Along the way, Style learns some unprescribed uses for diet pills, discovers that Miller's King of the Road Hotel may have been owned by the mob and reignites an old feud between Tompall Glaser and Waylon Jennings. As Mel Tillis says, "they're all characters or they wouldn't be in the business." DAVE ITZKOFF - The New York Times Hope you enjoy it! Lyle ]]> 410018@blogcritics.org Tue, 18 Jul 2006 17:19:19 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/01/02/220347.php#comment-5691 I didn't find one in Amazon ]]> 5691@blogcritics.org Mon, 24 Mar 2003 17:55:50 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/01/02/220347.php#comment-5688 Hello, Does anyone know if there is a book about, Roger Miller? Thanks ]]> 5688@blogcritics.org Mon, 24 Mar 2003 17:38:21 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/01/02/220347.php#comment-2699 I'd have to say my favorite Roger Miller song is "Little Green Apples" ]]> 2699@blogcritics.org Mon, 6 Jan 2003 23:55:22 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/01/02/220347.php#comment-2670 I have always liked Roger and agree he is underrated. He has never received much credit for his role as troubador/narrator of Disney's animated Robin Hood, which rules. ]]> 2670@blogcritics.org Fri, 3 Jan 2003 11:05:58 EST