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Brad Paisley

This Date in Country Music History

2020 – Longtime Grand Ole Opry guitarist Jimmy Capps passed away
2018 – Florida Georgia Line released their single “Simple”
2000 – John Rich made his Grand Ole Opry debut as a solo artist
1999 – Lonestar released their Lonely Grill album, which featured the mega-hit “Amazed”
1999 – Brad Paisley‘s debut album, Who Needs Pictures, was released
1991 – Diamond Rio scores their first career #1 with “Meet in the Middle”
1975 – Willie Nelson‘s Red Headed Stranger album was released
1974 – Ronnie Milsap scored his first career #1 hit with the Eddie Rabbitt penned “Pure Love”
1964 – Dolly Parton moved to Nashville the day after graduating high school

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admin — Mon, 25 May 2026 11:54:26 +0000

Carrie Underwood

This Date in Country Music History

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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admin — Fri, 22 May 2026 10:21:21 +0000

This Date in Country Music History

2021 – Talking in Circles with Clint Black debuted on the Circle Network
2021 – Leslie Jordan made his Grand Ole Opry debut
2020 – Craig Morgan released his album God, Family, Country
2011 – John Rich won Celebrity Apprentice
2010 – Laura Bell Bundy made her Grand Ole Opry debut
2004 – Rascal Flatts scored a #1 hit with “Mayberry”
2002 – Brooks & Dunn took home 3 ACM Awards, including Entertainer of the Year, Top Vocal Duo, and Video of the Year for “Only In America”

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admin — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 12:31:38 +0000

This Date in Country Music History

2018 – Chris Stapleton won 3 Grammy awards: Best Country Album, for From A Room: Volume 1; Best Country Song, “Broken Halos”; and Best Country Solo Performance, “Either Way”
2014 – Big & Rich released their single “Look At You”
2009 – John Rich released his single “Shuttin’ Detroit Down”
1995 – Alan Jackson scored a #1 hit with “Gone Country”
1992 – Reba McEntire released her single “Is There Life Out There”
1989 – Randy Travis topped the charts with “Deeper Than The Holler”
1985 – Alabama released their album Forty Hour Week
1985 – Reba McEntire released her single “Somebody Should Leave”

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admin — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 06:57:59 +0000

This Date in Country Music History

2023 – The Band Perry’s Neil Perry proposed to Sofia Sclafani
2020 – Craig Wayne Boyd and his wife welcomed a new baby boy
2015 – Country Music Hall of Famer and Grand Ole Opry legend Little Jimmy Dickens passed away
1998 – John Rich parted ways with Lonestar. After a brief solo career, he became half of Big & Rich
1974 – Country Music Hall of Famer and Grand Ole Opry member Tex Ritter died of a heart attack
1968 – Merle Haggard released his album Sing Me Back Home

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