TODAY IN COUNTRY MUSIC HISTORY – 5/26/2020
• 1962: WILLIE NELSON scored his first chart single with Touch Me. • 1973: JEANNE PRUETT’s hit Satin Sheets topped the country charts. • 1992: BROOKS & DUNN’s debut album, Brand New Man, was certified gold. • 2001: LORETTA LYNN opened her Coal Miner’s Daughter exhibit in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee. • 2009: The guys in…
Today in Country Music History – 5/21/2020
• 1994: TRISHA YEARWOOD and MAVERICKS bassist Robert Reynolds were married on the stage of the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville. Trisha is now married to GARTH BROOKS. • 1998: GARTH BROOKS’ album No Fences was certified multi-platinum for sales of 14 million copies. Hits included Friends In Low Places, Unanswered Prayers and The Thunder…
TODAY IN COUNTRY MUSIC HISTORY – 05/20/2020
COUNTRY DATEBOOK: MAY 20, 2020 • 1980: ALABAMA’s album My Home’s In Alabama was released. • 1994: TOBY KEITH topped the charts with Wish I Didn’t Know Now. • 1999: An autopsy on the late TAMMY WYNETTE, at the request of her husband George Richey, revealed she died from heart failure caused by repeated blood…
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