GLASGOW — Pam Tillis fans can expect a mixture of old favorites plus something new from her latest album Friday night.

Tillis takes the stage at the Plaza Theatre at 7 p.m.

“We will be doing some songs from our latest album ‘Rhinestoned’ and from my Christmas album,” she said.

“Rhinestoned” was released in 2007 by Stellar Cat Records, Tillis’ own record label, which she says is “A&R; Department” free. A&R; stands for artists and repertoire and can sometimes place limitations on what recording artists like Tillis can do.

The album “Rhine-stoned” is a compilation of songs Tillis has collected over the years.

“These were songs the A&R; Department said were either too country or not commercial for whatever reason,” she said. “I grew up around songwriters and I knew a good song when I heard one. I thought, ‘I’m going to record these songs.’ When you start your own label you can do whatever the heck you want to do.”

A single from the album, “Band in the Window” was in the No. 1 slot for six weeks on the ECMA (European Country Music Association) chart.

Her holiday album “Just in Time for Christmas” was also released in 2007.

Tillis recently returned from a 32-day tour of Ireland, Wales and England. She will make a stop at the Plaza after playing a show in her hometown of Nashville before traveling on to Bluffton, S.C. This year Tillis has toured Canada and most of the southeast, with a couple of dates in the west. Being on the road so much doesn’t bother her.

“You get used to it,” she said. “I have people say, ‘How do you do it?’ and ‘I could never do it’ and then ‘I’d love to live on a bus that would be the neatest thing.’ It has its pros and cons. I love room service. I have a great time. The audiences make the traveling worth it. If you didn’t love what you do, you wouldn’t be doing it.”

Tillis has won three Country Music Association awards, two Grammy awards and an IBMA award. She’s had 14 top five hits and has sold over 6 million records. She became a member of the Grand Ole Opry in 2000. She says her father, Mel Tillis, influenced her career and on occasion would give her advice.

“He’s not a real soap box kind of guy. He doesn’t have to say a lot to get his point across,” she said. “He won’t go into one of those big long rambly things. He never thought I listened, but I had.”

The best advice her dad ever gave her, she said, was rather simple.

“Just stay down to earth because people can tell if you are or aren’t,” she said.

She’s often asked what it was like to grow up in the country music industry.

“I always tell people that’s not a question. That’s a book,” she said, adding her childhood was probably a lot more normal than what some would think. “We grew up in Nashville. We didn't grow up on a tour bus.”

Her friends at school were not particularly impressed about her dad being in the country music industry, she said, because, they too had a family member in the business so it wasn’t that big of a deal.

“In some ways it was hard. Mom raised five with dad gone all the time,” she said. “People don’t think about that side of it. We were supportive of daddy and what he wanted to do. We missed him an awful lot.”

When Tillis launched her music career she didn’t start out singing country.

“I sang all types of music,” she said. “I tried a lot of different styles on. I wasn’t sure what I would be best at. I experimented musically and I came back to country.”

Tillis writes a lot of her own music. Her inspiration she says comes from everywhere.

“Movies, books, conversations,c journaling, just all over the place,” she said.

She tends not to write music while on the road.

“I’m more of a stockpile ideas and then come home and write them,” she said.

Tillis is planning the release of a new album, “Recollection,” in the spring.

“We are going to do a new greatest hits package,” she said.

She is also recording a radio show for WSM-Radio in Nashville and is set to appear soon on the “Tommy Wilcox Outdoors” show.

“I got a 33-inch, 9-pound red fish,” she said, when she filmed a fishing segment for Wilcox’s show.

Wilcox said Tillis was a terrific guest.

“She is a very good fisherman. The wind was blowing very hard and her casting was that of a pro. There were seven other fishermen besides Pam. They were all men and Pam won the biggest fish award. That speaks for itself!” Wilcox said. “The show will probally run in December on SportSouth all over the Southeast.”

The concert at the Plaza is set to begin at 7 p.m. Tickets are $15 and $25 and are available online at www.plaza.org or through the Plaza box office or by calling (270) 361-2101.