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Carrie Underwood

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  • 2020 – Jordan Davis released his song “Almost Maybes”
  • 2019 – Blake Shelton scored a #1 single with “God’s Country”
  • 2018 – John Rich opened his bar in downtown Nashville called Redeck Riviera
  • 2011 – Scotty McCreery won American Idol, with fellow country singer Lauren Alaina coming in second
  • 2011 – Scotty McCreery‘s debut single “I Love You This Big” was released
  • 2011 – Lauren Alaina’s debut single “Like My Mother Does” was released
  • 2005 – Carrie Underwood won American Idol
  • 2005 – Garth Brooks proposed to Trisha Yearwood
  • 2004 – Julie Roberts released her debut, self-titled album
  • 2004 – Lonestar released their album, Let’s Be Us Again
  • 2002 – Alan Jackson hits #1 with his song “Drive (For Daddy Gene)” which stays at #1 for 4 weeks
  • 1991 – Doug Stone hits #1 with “In a Different Light”
  • 1951 – Marty Robbins signed a record label deal with Columbia Records…the partnership lasted 31 years

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Alan Jackson

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  • 2021 – Alan Jackson released his album Where Have You Gone
  • 2020 – Hannah Mulholland announced her departure from Runaway June
  • 2013 – George Strait released his Love Is Everything album
  • 2013 – Keith Urban released “Little Bit of Everything” as a single to radio
  • 2012 – Kenny Chesney released his single “Come Over”
  • 2011 – Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert got married in Texas
  • 2005 – Jo Dee Messina hits #1 with her single “My Give a Damn’s Busted”
  • 1991 – Alan Jackson released his album Don’t Rock the Jukebox
  • 1984 – Alabama won 3 ACM Awards:  Entertainer of the Year, Top Vocal Group, and Album of the Year

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  • 2025 – Blake Shelton released his album For Recreational Use Only
  • 2025 – Johnny Rodriguez passed away
  • 2025 – Reba McEntire, Miranda Lambert and Lainey Wilson released their song “Trailblazer”
  • 2022 – LoCash released their song “Beach Boys”
  • 2020 – Gwen Stefani made her Grand Ole Opry debut when she performed with Blake Shelton remotely due to the COVID-19 pandemic
  • 2015 – Little Big Town’s “Girl Crush” topped the Billboard charts for the first of 13 weeks
  • 2012 – Tim McGraw signed a new record label deal with Big Machine Records
  • 2010 – Blake Shelton proposed to Miranda Lambert while out in the woods in Oklahoma
  • 2005 – Kenny Chesney married actress Renee Zellweger in the Virgin Islands
  • 2004 – Trick Pony signed a record label deal with Curb Records
  • 2001 – Lee Ann Womack won 3 ACM Awards for her smash hit “I Hope You Dance.”  Trophies were for Single, Song, and Vocal Event (w/ Sons of the Desert)
  • 1992 – Brooks & Dunn hit #1 on the charts with their single “Neon Moon”
  • 1989 – Keith Whitley died of alcohol poisoning
  • 1989 – Tim McGraw moved to Nashville to pursue a career in Country Music

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Randy Owen of Alabama

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