Best known for novelty songs like "King of the Road," Miller was also a serious songwriter who wrote ballads for artists such as Ray Price. Miller's '70 album A Trip in the Country is newly available.

Roger Miller was an accomplished Nashville songwriter and musician whose songs were covered by prominent 1950s artists like Ray Price and Ernest Tubb. But when he finally found his own voice as a ...

Roger Miller was a complex man. He was another one of those “overnight successes—after more than a decade in the business. One of the first country artists to cross over into the pop world, he had a ...